Example sentences of "[noun prp] as a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After trials the General Electrolytic Alkali Co. was established in 1899 with Hargreaves as a director and production began at Cledford Bridge near Middlewich in 1901 . |
| 2 | Well I I erm Roy Donson House Builders ' Federation , I I think it will because if you take Hambleton as an example and and and and we 've seen in more detail stage one er more detailed justification for the boundaries of some particular settlements in the Hambleton District Plan er based on a based on a landscape analysis . |
| 3 | He loves Strach as a player and always mentions the fact that Strach is still the best right sided midfielder in the league . |
| 4 | His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist . |
| 5 | Centuries ago the birds themselves chose Low Island as a sanctuary and the droppings over the years made it rich in guano — a fertiliser . |
| 6 | Perhaps they had more confidence in Mortimer as a commander than they ever had in Edward II : Mortimer held the lordship of Trim ( County Meath ) in right of his wife and although he had been defeated by Edward Bruce in Meath in December 1315 , he had shown some skill in restoring order in Ireland after the Bruce invasion . |
| 7 | HDUR representatives also declared that the Hungarian population were loyal supporters of Romania as a sovereign and unitary state . |
| 8 | The new offering will be the first open RISC-based in-store system from Nixdorf USA , which has Montgomery Ward as a customer and claims 10 of the top 20 supermarkets in the world . |
| 9 | The new offering will be the first open RISC-based in-store system from Nixdorf USA , which has Montgomery Ward as a customer and claims 10 of the top 20 supermarkets in the world . |
| 10 | Vassall was recognised at once by the Russians in Moscow as a homosexual and blackmailed . |
| 11 | Neck and spoke they raced for mile after mile , the horse only drawing breath to ensure Ian was there to open the gates along the way , and to use Ian as a guide when Sally got lost in the maze of the Clubhouse car park ! |
| 12 | I do n't know anything about Gary as a footballer but he 's got nice legs . |
| 13 | She had known William as a boy and as an adolescent ; she was beginning to know him as an adult and as a lover ; but between the two blocks of knowledge was a ten-year gap . |
| 14 | Apart from himself , " only one man turned up — Frank Foley by name and I enrolled Foley as a member after I had enrolled myself , so that there were then two members of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union of Great Britain " . |
| 15 | Gloucester recognizes Jean as a Frenchman because of his tunic , which he thinks means that he was born near Pontoise . |
| 16 | He emigrated to the United States as a child and received a teacher 's certificate from Nebraska University in 1916 . |
| 17 | In Britain and the United States judges are selected from lawyers , usually only after many years in practice , in Britain as an advocate , and in the United States as an advocate or in a legal post within the government . |
| 18 | The Republicans placed an advertisement making a link between Mr Florio and the Mafia , which the Democrats have countered with ads referring to Mr Courter as a liar and showing his nose getting longer — Pinocchio-style - as he speaks . |
| 19 | They both worked in the administration of the Karadjordje regime , Dositej as a minister and Vuk as a more humble clerk and customs official . |
| 20 | David found Linda was caring and understanding ; soon he began to feel uneasy because he knew he could not have heterosexual Linda as a partner if he were to undergo his sexual transformation . |
| 21 | Pat and Steve came rather unexpectedly to the hotel trade after sixteen years in the Royal Air Force-Steve as a pilot , and Pat as an education and administrative officer . |
| 22 | He responded by explaining to the chairman of the committee , the fashionable playwright and military man John Burgoyne , how he had entered Murshidabad the capital of Bengal as a conqueror and how bankers and jewellers had rushed forward to thrust presents on him ; and , he concluded , as he thought back to the moment of triumph , ‘ By God , Mr. Chairman , I stand amazed at my own moderation . ’ |
| 23 | In 1981 I was working the summer in Tenerife as a PR and when we got bored of the clubs , we would go to the beach at about 3am . |
| 24 | Do we go for balls down the channels for wallace/deane to run onto , or use Deane as a target and have Wallace running off him ? |
| 25 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 26 | James and his immediate circle had always regarded Scotland as a sideshow and while Mar , Mackintosh and Forster were engaging in their bloodless manoeuvring in the north , he had despatched the Duke of Ormonde [ or Ormond ] to make another attempt in the south-west . |
| 27 | As a founder and chairman of Highland Tourist ( Cairngorm Development ) , he provided a practical demonstration of how to market Scotland as a conference and holiday resort . |
| 28 | The Scottish selectors , however , rated his prime potential value to Scotland as a prop and the genial giant is in the process of seeking to establish himself in the tighthead position . |
| 29 | The Government treat Scotland as an afterthought and something to be tacked on at the end when the serious business has already been dealt with . |
| 30 | Bill O'Reilly has told me how he got to know Jardine in later tours of England as a cricketer and writer . |