Example sentences of "[adv] as a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I qualified in 1979 and have worked as a social worker and latterly as a team manager in various London boroughs . |
| 2 | Programmes were long over , but the white screen with the volume down served not badly as a night light ; any of the lamps in the shoebox room kept Sam awake , and total darkness made him frightened . |
| 3 | Apart from a ten year break to raise a family and one other short break , Jean has also worked continuously , mostly as a Spool Setter and then as a Colour Counter , calculating the percentage and number of colours used in each new design . |
| 4 | Giant Tortoise … a visit to the beautiful island of La Digue can be booked locally as a day excursion by ferry from Praslin … |
| 5 | Yet the disreputable William Martin had won an enormous following in " Worstedopolis ' , culminating in a mighty show of hands at the hustings which had left no one in any doubt that , had those hands possessed a vote apiece , he would have been elected overwhelmingly as a Bradford MP . |
| 6 | It may be shown diagrammatically as a management grid ; for example : |
| 7 | In a sense , the shunt element behaves in its stabilising work rather as a Zener diode behaves , but the analogy must not be pressed too far . |
| 8 | In 1930 Nizan noted " I dislike the philosophy of oppressors because I feel that I have been the victim of oppression ; reconciliation with oppression does not strike me as a victory for freedom , but rather as a death sentence . " |
| 9 | Tempered hardboard ( tempered with oil or resin ) is more durable and water-resistant , so can be used outdoors , eg as a wall lining or cladding ; or indoors as a very hard-wearing floorcovering . |
| 10 | Potted crab is very rich in flavour as well as in content , and is best appreciated quite on its own , perhaps as a midday dish served only with crisp dry toast , to be followed by a simple lettuce salad or freshly cooked green beans or purple-sprouting broccoli eaten when barely cold , with an oil and lemon dressing . |
| 11 | In the opening passages , print and adornment was kept to a minimum , excepting the occasional abstract leaf motif appliqued perhaps as an elbow patch . |
| 12 | What makes The Rape so durably haunting is not its ( rather banal ) conceit of a woman viewed literally as a sex object , but the fact that it is that woman with that neck and that terrifying and terrified hair . |
| 13 | They reflect money balances and just as a mirror image shows everything literally as a mirror image , everything is the opposite way round , so too are the balances in the mirror accounts in relation to the balances in the NOSTRO and VOSTRO accounts . |
| 14 | Thereafter his war service was entirely as a staff officer . |
| 15 | And if there 's no work and if there 's no means by which people can get themselves you know those sorts of basic things but you know I 'm not gon na si I I could n't say that the whole structure is going to ch change becau but I think erm I hope anyway and I do believe really that er I mean I hope that we 're going to stay together as a support group in some sort of form and Yes and there 's no way that we 're not going to support other causes in the way that we 've been supported . |
| 16 | This route would have been wishful thinking to the classical organic chemist hut the reaction proceeds readily in the presence of rhodium , one of the rarest metals , and of iodine , which act together as a catalyst system . |
| 17 | Quite a lot is known about how neurones are interconnected in different parts of the brain , and how they work together as a computing device . |
| 18 | So I 've put us all in together as a group entry — sorry , Rainbow , not you , bubbeleh , you 're under the age limit — and I have costumes for you three girls upstairs . ’ |
| 19 | Until very recently MRD 's have been available only as a typesetting tape of a printed dictionary ( Meijs , 1992 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ OWING To its natural beauty , protected situation and other attractive features , Windermere is popular not only as a holiday resort , but as a permanent summer and winter residence . |
| 21 | Josiah Wedgwood died in 1795 and is remembered as the ‘ Father of English Potters ’ , but it was not only as a pottery manufacturer that he was renowned and respected in his time . |
| 22 | However , even Cockfield regarded it only as a courtesy title . |
| 23 | After considerable pleas in writing and phone calls , I brought Fraser Barron back to command No 7 Squadron ; during the interdiction period prior to the Invasion he was outstanding not only as a squadron commander , hut also as an inspiration to all . |
| 24 | The prosecution claimed Jean-Marc Brennez was somebody Miss Giles had made up and the reason it was billed only as a surprise film was because she knew she did not have the right to show it . |
| 25 | This method is used in France , though only as a party game , not actually for electing governments . |
| 26 | Architects often bury themselves in individual building projects , ignoring any responsibility to the public space of the city ; planners work at a scale where the street is seen only as a traffic channel … ‘ |
| 27 | It was funny , in a Lewis Carroll sort of way , and at least the result was passable , if only as a trade magazine , whereas the woman 's magazine had been beyond a joke and she could not bear to look at the end product . |
| 28 | For example , it would be very disappointing to a written pattern knitter to be confronted with the most beautiful photograph of a garment , only to find that the pattern existed only as a Form shape . |
| 29 | Ali knew the importance of a clean farewell , not only as a health measure , but as good commercial sense . |
| 30 | The West German Labour Court , for instance , is empowered to settle labour disputes by means of statutory binding decisions whereas the Irish Labour Court acts only as a conciliation body . |