Example sentences of "[noun] as a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANDY Chipling sat back and admired the computer programme he had just completed , bent down to switch on his printer at the powerpoint and stared in horror as a week 's toil disappeared off the screen . |
| 2 | His expertise as a children 's bookseller was highly valued by his colleagues , and he made a great contribution over a number of years to the work of the BA 's Children 's Executive , as a member and , more recently , as a vice-chairman . |
| 3 | ‘ I have earned a comfortable living from Party Planners but I lost the bulk of my money as a Lloyd 's Name , ’ she said . |
| 4 | THE INSPIRALS ' sound is the real thing : noisy , tinny , grumpy , fast , lyrical , roaring , dossy as a billygoat 's eyes . |
| 5 | Roles began his career by serving his apprenticeship as a photographer 's assistant after leaving school , but then transferred to an education in sculpture and painting . |
| 6 | At the time of the trial , Hegan was living in Coatbridge and earning a pittance as a Butlin 's Redcoat and Munro was living in Australia . |
| 7 | Wright sees flexibility as a polytechnic 's greatest asset . |
| 8 | A. How about this team as a printer 's delight ? |
| 9 | After she had finished midwifery and two years as a Benedict 's junior sister she had joined the Royal Navy as a nursing sister for a few years . |
| 10 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 11 | One had a full-time secretarial job , one had a part-time factory job ( for four hours each morning ) , three did part-time cleaning jobs ( two in the evening , one in the morning ) and one housewife had a Saturday job as a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 12 | Her mother was willing to look after the baby , so she got a fulltime job as a teacher 's assistant in a mental home . |
| 13 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 14 | Harriet got a job as a dentist 's receptionist and lived on lentils and poached eggs in a hostel until the dentist asked her to marry him . |
| 15 | Short as a quarterback 's dick . ’ |
| 16 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 17 | But I always wanted to travel , and so I made several voyages as a ship 's doctor . |
| 18 | As Foucault and others have argued , the construction and then privileging of the author as a text 's origins is a product of editorial desire , matched with assumptions that establishing origins is a way of clarifying a text 's destination . |
| 19 | WITH a meaningless tournament offering a first prize of $2 million , tennis finally made the grade as a cuckoo 's nest this week . |
| 20 | This , as he writes about the brevity of human life , he is moved to exclaim , ‘ So I have seen a rose newly sprung from the clefts of its hood , and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb 's fleece ’ , and he continues to describe its life until ‘ it bowed the head and broke its stalk and at night having lost some of its leaves , and all its beauty , it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces ’ . |
| 21 | Outside was a lawn , clipped trim as a general 's moustache , but browning in patches and along the edge as though the general were a heavy smoker . |
| 22 | So in a very broad sense agriculture is going to have to con contribute to China 's , China as a whole 's economic development |
| 23 | I remember watching Ian 's first match for Border as a Queen 's College schoolboy . |
| 24 | A date stone , 1784 , is on the adjoining bakehouse , which later in life saw service as a blacksmith 's shop . |
| 25 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 26 | ‘ Red as a baboon 's bum . |
| 27 | But this low-born de Burgh , this double man despite himself , even while he leaned back greedily , hankering after lands with the ambition of the landless , even while he envied the de Blundevilles and the Marshalls and composed about himself a synthetic replica of their hereditary splendour , yet saw England by glimpses as Isambard saw it , an empire not decomposing and falling to insecure tatters like the Emperor 's sprawling hold , but compact as a clenched fist , solvent as a Jew 's treasury and self-sufficient as a well-run manor , a power not hemmed in but completed and transmitted by the sea . |
| 28 | In the case of Re Pogue , the court declined to make the patient 's refusal based on her belief as a Jehovah 's Witness a basis for declaring her incompetent to decide for herself . |
| 29 | It is reserved for use as a children 's play area . |
| 30 | The entertainer Frankie Vaughan has been fulfilling his new role as a Queen 's representative for his county . |