Example sentences of "[vb pp] as a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to his parents in Scarborough , he continued to train in hotel management until in 1925 he at last defied the family and enrolled as a drama student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London , where two years later he won the gold medal and was immediately given his start in the professional theatre by one of his teachers , the Russian director Theodore Komisarjevsky [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | She had done a three-month cookery course and , as a last-ditch attempt to acquire some proper qualifications , she had enrolled as a student teacher with Betty Vacani , in Knightsbridge , who ran dancing classes for tiny tots . |
| 3 | Pam Murphy has recently enrolled as a postgraduate student in experimental physics , and Carol Wallis , having got a degree and a postgraduate degree at Cambridge , and taught in various places , is now working as a Research Fellow in biochemistry at the university . |
| 4 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 5 | erm I think really what erm what should happen is that erm you , with your manager , ought to look at the the erm to establish and agreed job description and in addition to the notes that are are are there erm I have some sample job descriptions from other parts of the Press which have been completed as a framework job and erm we can discuss that in any kind of detail you want . |
| 6 | Spokesman Andrew Ball says it is ‘ smuggling the computer into people 's homes disguised as a CD player . ’ |
| 7 | Disguised as a page boy albeit an incredibly feminine one she enters the service of Orsino , with whom she falls in love . |
| 8 | Uttley , Britain 's over-40 Ergo champion ( the Ergo is a form of torture disguised as a rowing machine and beloved of masochists everywhere ) , was in the States to compete in the World Championships . |
| 9 | One was disguised as a post office worker . |
| 10 | His raw material consists of Stephen Fry playing Stephen Fry thinly disguised as a throw-back aristo who decides to share his recently inherited stately pile for a few days with his old friends from revue days . |
| 11 | With the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the National Art Collections Fund , the National Portrait Gallery has bought three distinguished portraits of important British sitters in the first half of this year : Robert Walker 's ‘ John Evelyn ’ of 1648 shows the famous diarist with his hand resting upon a skull and it was painted as a wedding portrait for his wife , to accompany a treatise on matrimony . |
| 12 | The Guests returned Dali 's portrait of their son , Alexander , feeling that he had been painted as a Velázquez menino . |
| 13 | Recent years have seen the site developed as a trading estate , now housing a number of firms . |
| 14 | Case management , as defined and practised originally , developed as a service system response to the co-ordination of care , and while judgement of its value in other terms is not entirely inappropriate , it should be assessed in terms of its purpose , goals , and effectiveness , not in terms of its capacity to meet requirements projected on to it by others . |
| 15 | They have their own search company which they have developed as a service business . |
| 16 | Language has developed as a sign system — one of the ways in which humans communicate and make sense of the world around them . |
| 17 | You 'd have thought modems would be quicker on the parallel port , but no ; the serial port was originally developed as a telecommunications device . |
| 18 | RIGHT The Rottweiler is a large , powerful breed , developed as a guard dog . |
| 19 | Developed as a nerve gas by German chemists during World War II , Parathion was recognised as highly toxic in the 1970s . |
| 20 | CYNICS might argue that ‘ green ’ or environmental funds and their ethical counterparts were developed as a marketing tool to attract the conscientious investor . |
| 21 | The shares carry the right to five weeks a year of free accommodation at the resort , which is being developed as a time share enterprise . |
| 22 | He states that the Causey Mounth , isolated from heavy traffic , could be developed as a commuter route for cyclists and for other leisure and recreational uses . |
| 23 | One particularly important technique that has been developed in recent years is the inverse scattering method of Belinskii and Zakharov ( 1978 , 1979 ) which had previously been developed as a soliton technique . |
| 24 | Speaking without notes , Mr Denton gave us a clear picture of the way the railways were first developed as a freight service , and indeed their rapid rise as a people carrier was an unexpected consequence . |
| 25 | Although an adjoining area of ground had been purchased for this purpose , it was never developed as a burial ground and its virgin state allowed the Ekarro Housing Co-operative to complement the conversion of All Saints and St Barnabas with a new building , in the style of the surrounding villas , accommodating further flats for co-operative members ( Plate 26 ) . |
| 26 | The historic site of Athelstaneford was developed as an estate village by Sir David Kinloch , leasing out smallholdings on which his tenants could build their own harled ( rough-cast ) and pantiled cottages ; and here , too , many of them wove cloth . |
| 27 | This has been most clearly shown for lung tissue but smoking related adducts have also been described in a number of other tissues for which smoking has been implicated as a cancer risk factor . |
| 28 | Because increased consumption of fat results in an increase in both weight and blood pressure and has also been implicated as a risk factor for some forms of cancer , dietary fat may explain the correlation between blood pressure and cancer . |
| 29 | To become registered as a bone marrow donor you must be : — |
| 30 | In the case of land , statutory provisions may give priority to a later contract registered as a land charge even if entered into with knowledge of an earlier , unregistered transaction , but it seems that this affects only proprietary rights and does not bar an action in tort based on interference with the earlier contract . |