Example sentences of "[noun sg] as a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was n't , and he came back and caught me , then I 'd have to fall back on my story as an over-enthusiastic games player . |
| 2 | An Indonesian-registered freighter , the Perintis , carrying 32 containers of toxic pesticide , sank on March 15 , 1989 , in an area of the English Channel described by the UK Ministry of Defence as a conventional explosives dumping ground . |
| 3 | First of all if one looks at the draft advice on the erm regional plan guidance prepared by the Yorkshire and Humberside local planning authorities , they in fact advocate new settlement as an appropriate circumstances , there is not a policy which says that they are not appropriate or are inconsistent with other policy objectives , and I note in that respect that the D O E as Mr Donson said , are mildly supportive of the new settlement in the Greater York area . |
| 4 | The catering industry as a whole experiences seasonal demands for additional labour but , more important , those firms which provide catering for special " events " — exhibitions , cultural sporting or social occasions — have to cope with dramatic day-to-day variations in their demand for labour [ see Chapter 6 ] . |
| 5 | During the same era of the early sixties , TV tough guy , Lewis Collins was earning a living as a junior ladies ' hairdresser at Andre Bernard 's salon in Liverpool . |
| 6 | For those who get involved with up-front lathe work , how about a smock as a New Years gift ? |
| 7 | Also surprising , given Bourdieu 's work as an ethnographer in Algeria , is the lack of consideration for the nature of mass consumption as an historical phenomena . |
| 8 | I recognise that dealing effectively and sensitively with rape as a human rights violation requires careful treatment and consideration . |
| 9 | Earlier this week the members of the University Lecturers ' Association at the school , where Mrs Falconer 's post as a senior textiles lecturer is being made compulsorily redundant , voted 19-2 for the one-day strike , with the threat of escalating their action next week . |
| 10 | The exercise of bureaucratic functions reflects the way the state apparatus as a whole functions . |
| 11 | Brian Rowe has relinquished his role as Eastern Counties Field Officer so that he can concentrate on developing the Salt Cellar as a joint churches enterprise in Sudbury . |
| 12 | Since part of the lithosphere is replaced by hot mantle of lower density from the asthenosphere , the lithosphere as a whole experiences isostatic uplift . |
| 13 | Education as a public relations activity |
| 14 | He added : ‘ These steps included maligning your dead wife as a criminal drugs dealer . ’ |
| 15 | He added : ‘ These steps included maligning your dead wife as a criminal drugs dealer . |
| 16 | If we analyse all the uses to which income is put , then it is immediately obvious that for the economy as a whole consumers ' expenditure on goods produced in the domestic circular flow is only one element . |
| 17 | This magazine as a whole attempts to provide some of that missing sense of movement by tracking down individual people that the NI once profiled to see what time has done to them . |
| 18 | Marshall had been appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967 after a successful career as a civil rights lawyer , legal director of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People ( NAACP ) and an Appeals Court judge . |
| 19 | Alter the war , The Miami Herald invested heavily in the system , at one point transmitting five editions daily , but the advent of television soon made the concept redundant and fax reverted , once and for all , to its previous role as a utilitarian communications medium . |
| 20 | This lead to the company 's present role as a protective coatings supplier , concentrating on high quality , high margin profits for the European market . |
| 21 | An excited fan planted a kiss on the Duchess of York 's cheek yesterday as she practised for her new role as a United Nations roving ambassador . |
| 22 | Larry ‘ Boyz N' The Hood ’ Fishburne gets his first , long-awaited starring role as an undercover narcotics cop in the gripping thriller Deep Cover . |
| 23 | The state as a whole functions as ‘ an ideal collective capitalist ’ ( Altvater , 1973 ) , a political institution which corresponds to the common needs of capital . |
| 24 | The earliest excavations , however , in 1948–9 at Ivel House , supplemented by observation of local service trenches , revealed surprisingly complex occupation including buildings with opus signinum and mosaic floors , at much the same time as Stevens argued for its status as a late civitas centre . |
| 25 | In February 1991 Allitt applied to be enrolled for training as a sick children 's nurse at Boston Pilgrim hospital . |
| 26 | Third point erm relates to the proposal from the gentleman on the left here about agricultural land as an additional criteria . |
| 27 | But to maintain its market position as a leading systems and software house , it would need to persuade about 70 per cent of its key employees in the north London locations to relocate with the company . |
| 28 | If it does n't port to NT , how could it defend its position as an open systems company , the newsletter asks , anticipating that Sun may find itself in the ‘ embarrassing position of being one of the only significant RISC systems vendors not offering Windows NT on its systems . ’ |
| 29 | But er according to my mother 's great joy , she got seasick even on the landing stage in in Liverpool and never came out of her cabin , so she had a big time as a young women running around the ship . |