Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since last summer , Controll has been acting as a dealer for Hewlett-Packard Co , Compaq Computer Corp and Philips Electronics NV . |
| 2 | on the other hand , while the CA has been operating as a separate agency for two years , 24 per cent of the NIC specialists who completed the survey were unaware of its existence . |
| 3 | The deficit has been reducing as a percentage of GDP . |
| 4 | She has been working as a nurse practitioner on a general surgical firm at the Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust since August . |
| 5 | Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio . |
| 6 | Since his dismissal , Totten has been working as a radio journalist but yesterday admitted that only active participation in the game brought him genuine satisfaction . |
| 7 | One reason why farm workers ' wages remain so comparatively low is that the demand for labour within agriculture has been declining as a result of mechanization-Indeed , the prospect of more expensive labour has often been sufficient to stimulate farmers to engage in a further round of mechanization so that both the supply and the demand for labour have chased each other down in an ever-decreasing spiral . |
| 8 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 9 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 10 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 11 | Half of the salary disappeared in mess fees and for the headquarter 's servants , but Sharpe still felt rich , and it was a far better reward than the two shillings and ninepence a day that he had been receiving as a half-pay lieutenant . |
| 12 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 13 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 14 | The Tharos , which had been acting as a support vessel to the Piper Alpha platform was anchored close by . |
| 15 | Some anomalies which had been arising as a result of the previous piecemeal evolution of means-tested benefit were eliminated . |
| 16 | The eldest daughter , Elizabeth McGuire , had been working as a farm servant ( See Chapter 6 ) . |
| 17 | Val had four children aged between seventeen and six , and had been working as a childminder at home to supplement the family income . |
| 18 | Edith Thomas was married at seventeen : she had been working as a barmaid at the Miner 's Arms and she was married from there . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Liddell had been working as a field missionary in war-torn Siaochang . |
| 20 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 21 | Mr Telford , who took redundancy from the pit in 1988 and had been working as a mining contractor at Rossington , near Doncaster , allegedly threatened a man with the gun to gain entry . |
| 22 | The detective would n't be expecting two of them and , when Dana had been appearing as a model in London , Claudia would have been in Solihull . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been coming as a mere visitor . |
| 24 | However , the children of your unmarried partner can not inherit from you unless you adopt them or make a will even if they have been living as a family with you both . |
| 25 | Mrs Buxton , aged 82 , plans to travel with the containers : ‘ We have been running as a charity for about 10 years and I usually go over with the donations to cities such as Krakow and report back on what is badly needed over there . ’ |
| 26 | The owners of Land 's End are experts at the game and my friend Des Hannigan , who 's been working as a journalist down there for a few years , tells me they spray press releases at the local media with mad abandon . |
| 27 | According to that , he 's been working as a barman . ’ |
| 28 | Our latest information is that he 's been working as a waiter at a bar called Flamingo . ’ |