Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Film-maker Marcus Colchester worked as an anthropologist with the Yanomami Indians of South America , sharing their lives — and their illnesses , many of which were parasitic . |
| 2 | Informix Corp founder Roger Sippl went as a speaker to New Orleans to the Unix International members meeting last month to deliver a simple message . |
| 3 | Roger Cawley resigned as a director of Woburn Wild Animal Kingdom in Bedfordshire following a storm of protests . |
| 4 | ‘ I am taking this matter up with the DoE Roads Service as a matter of urgency , ’ said Alderman Hugh Smyth . |
| 5 | Born in 1927 , Denis Serjeant qualified as an architect the hard way , by taking external examinations whilst articled to an Oxford architect . |
| 6 | Jan Carlzon hailed as a visionary for his turnaround at SAS airlines , has spent his entire career ( beginning in 1968 ) in the travel business , since 1978 in the airline industry . |
| 7 | Jon Pertwee appeared as A Kid once , one of Pete Murray 's co-presenters was a boxer and , when mentor Jack Good was sacked , he went to ITV , invented Oh Boy ! and , erm , derailed the ‘ Special ’ for , erm , good . |
| 8 | An HLA-A2.1 alloreactive CTL clone included as a positive control strongly lysed all transfectants , including the parental T2 cells . |
| 9 | Planning the assault on the boardroom NEIL FITZGERALD listens as a strategy for women to aim for the top is hammered out |
| 10 | As Jane Feuer points out , camp involves a kind of sensibility in which ‘ blank mimicry and a critical edge may coexist ’ , and thereby resembles that form of postmodern parody which Linda Hutcheon defines as a ‘ repetition with critical distance that allows ironic signalling of difference at the very heart of similarity ’ . |
| 11 | Ffos Las continues as a well run and efficient operation , and coal input is set to climb . |
| 12 | Edward Harriman began as a $5-a-week office boy and came to head a mighty railroad empire . |
| 13 | He cites a Brooklyn playground shooting as an example . |
| 14 | Insurance brokers , particularly smaller ones connected to Lloyd 's of London , were weaker on what BZW analyst David Hudson describes as an ‘ agglomeration ’ of bad news , including the incessant bad news on Lloyd 's . |
| 15 | Multinational traffic and field data systems group Peek Plc , which also owns Husky Computers Ltd , has turned in what chairman Ken Maud describes as a ‘ satisfactory performance in a tough economic environment . |
| 16 | His bruised hand was greatly admired and his escapade in Mucky Beck accepted as a terrific adventure . |
| 17 | In what United States officials described as a " very positive " development for the 23-country Vienna negotiations on conventional forces in Europe ( CFE ) , the Soviet Union on June 27 signalled its acceptance of a Polish-French plan for limiting tank numbers to 20,000 each for the Warsaw Pact and NATO forces . |
| 18 | In Mehmet v Perry [ 1977 ] 2 All ER 529 , a decision of Brian Neill QC sitting as a deputy judge of the Queen 's Bench Division , the plaintiff widower had , as the judge found , reasonably given up work to look after his children . |
| 19 | Lucy Snowe comes as a stranger to the school , but after a while starts to settle into place . |
| 20 | As Taylor began planning an improbable revival in Washington on Sunday against a Brazilian side that threw away a three-goal lead in a 3–3 draw with Germany last night , FA chairman Sir Bert Millichip emerged as a key figure . |
| 21 | Nellie McClung served as a member of the Board of Governors of the CBC and died in 1951 . |
| 22 | Mrs. Dow worked as an assistant in the newsagent 's shop on the corner of the street opposite Ezra 's premises . |
| 23 | His art collection began with a Rembrandt etching received as a college graduation gift , and expanded generously to serve the needs of the MIA . |
| 24 | WIDNES allrounder Richard Hignett plays as a batsman when Cheshire open their Minor Counties championship programme against Cornwall at Stalybridge today . |
| 25 | Londoner Richard Tompkins worked as a petrol pump attendant before starting the stamp company in 1956 . |
| 26 | Only Edward Petherbridge shines as a butler serving up some of Shaw 's witty observations on life . |
| 27 | Frankie Vaughan started as a crooner in Variety , Now he represents the Queen in Buckinghamshire . |
| 28 | Buller 's Hill House came as a surprise . |
| 29 | Andy Partner appeared as a second half substitute for fellow youth team centre-half Paul Flowers , but it was second substitute Steve Ball who was quickest into the action . |
| 30 | In June 1990 David Commissiong resigned as a senator for the ruling Democratic Labour Party ( DLP ) in protest at the rejection by the party 's executive council of his nomination as DLP House of Assembly candidate for the City of Bridgetown constituency . |