Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rising real wages made subletting as a means of supplementing income less essential and , among the unemployed , the household means test made letting rooms a more difficult proposition . |
| 2 | Pairs of multiple step ladders or trestles can be bridged with purpose designed staging as a basic form of scaffolding . |
| 3 | The demographic evidence on this matter has been examined above and found wanting as an explanation of population growth . |
| 4 | He dismissed conducting as a phoney profession , responsible for turning players into mindless dependents , powerless without the hypnotic beat of a little white stick in front of them . |
| 5 | I have the greatest sympathy for hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , but there is a principle involved and it is about time that my right hon. and learned Friend stopped speaking as a lawyer and started acting as a politician . |
| 6 | She stopped speaking as the buzzer on his desk interrupted her . |
| 7 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 8 | But then I stopped reading as a reader and began to read as a writer . |
| 9 | Post-war interviews carried out by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey , confirmed such impressions : one out of three Germans indicated that his morale was affected by bombing more than any other single factor ; nine in ten of those interviewed mentioned bombing as the greatest hardship they had to suffer in the war ; three in five admitted to war-weariness on account of the bombing , and the percentage not wanting to go on with the war was significantly higher in heavily bombed than unbombed towns ; more than two-fifths said they lost hope in German victory when the raids did not stop ; and the percentage of people with confidence in the leadership was fourteen per cent lower in heavily bombed than in unbombed towns . |
| 10 | Bartlett ( 1958 ) regarded thinking as a form of skill in that it has the characteristics of organising information . |
| 11 | He did his preregistration year and a year of vocational training in general practice but then stopped working as a doctor until he opened an allergy clinic in 1982 . |
| 12 | And it 's unlikely that Chas 's grandfather got much out of the British Empire beyond , in all probability , two or three years spent serving as a soldier in India , two or three years off the dole queue . |
| 13 | Paul began training as a local preacher and conducted services under supervision , but never completed the tough programme . |
| 14 | In 1938 he began working as a graphic artist in New York , eventually becoming art director for Brodovitch at Saks Fifth Avenue . |
| 15 | In 1938 he began working as a graphic artist in New York , eventually becoming art director for Brodovitch at Saks Fifth Avenue . |
| 16 | Margaret began working as a Beamer in the Winding Department in January 1958 , a position she held for 26 years before becoming a clerkess responsible for recording production statistics . |
| 17 | Gary , 26 , left school with just four CSEs and began working as an engineer . |
| 18 | There are 2 local lads this year ; Edward Haddon from Charlbury started rowing as a 9 year old at school in Oxford then the boat race was just a dream . |
| 19 | I have the greatest sympathy for hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , but there is a principle involved and it is about time that my right hon. and learned Friend stopped speaking as a lawyer and started acting as a politician . |
| 20 | The end of the coil is closed , and it seems reasonable to assume that the animal started growing as a coiled shell . |
| 21 | ‘ There is still a place for old favourites such as viscaria , a plant I loved growing as a child although it is not much seen today . |
| 22 | He started collecting as a child and he 's been buying ever since . |
| 23 | I started working as a caddie in 1944 when I was about eight , and I earned a penny for every year . |
| 24 | Her father had come from Lithuania and started working as a tailor 's presser , then he ran a clothes shop in the parlour of his house in Strangeways . |
| 25 | Wh when you started working as a lad , erm what did you have to do ? |
| 26 | Oh yes I always went fishing as a wee boy , me and my brother . |
| 27 | He treated reading as a team effort , getting them to read the Daily Mirror rather than the dull , babyish books on offer . |
| 28 | Miranda remembered howling as a twelve-year-old because Adam treated her as a child . |
| 29 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 30 | St. Teresa put learning as a high priority in spiritual guides . |