Example sentences of "[vb pp] as a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The managing director of one of the biggest of such organisations attached to this place is registered as a Member 's secretary or research assistant . |
| 2 | Unlike France , where lamb is still , in spite of its easy availability , regarded as a prince 's dish , the Germans think of it as something else . |
| 3 | The field of pictorial and explicit pornography is generally regarded as a man 's province . |
| 4 | It is also regarded as a men 's club and its members all possess comfortable rooms . |
| 5 | Gains are treated as a person 's ‘ top slice ’ of income and are accordingly taxed at : 20 per cent ( the new lower rate ) , 25 per cent ( basic rate ) , 40 per cent ( higher rate ) or a mixture of two rates , i.e. in instances where a gain , or gains , pushes part of an individual 's income into a higher rate bracket . |
| 6 | ‘ Dwelling ’ means any structure or part of a structure occupied as a person 's home or as other living accommodation ( whether the occupation is separate or shared with others ) but does not include any part not so occupied , and for this purpose ‘ structure ’ includes a tent , caravan , vehicle , vessel or other temporary or movable structure ( Section 8 ) . |
| 7 | Note that ‘ dwelling ’ means any structure or part of a structure occupied as a person 's home or as other living accommodation ( whether the occupation is separate or shared with others ) but does not include any part not so occupied , and for this purpose ‘ structure ’ includes a tent , caravan , vehicle , vessel or other temporary or movable structure . |
| 8 | ‘ Dwelling ’ means any structure or part of a structure occupied as a person 's home or as other living accommodation ( whether the occupation is separate or shared with others ) and does not include any part not so occupied , and for this purpose ‘ structure ’ includes a tent , caravan , vehicle , vessel or other temporary or movable structure . ’ |
| 9 | Originally built as a merchant 's house the Leeuwenbrug is very well appointed throughout from the cosy breakfast room , bar and lounge to the exquisitely decorated bedrooms all with private bathroom , television , telephone and hairdryer . |
| 10 | Her last film ‘ RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN ’ ( 1964 ) whose commercial and critical failure ended her career , can be seen as a woman 's reply to the eulogies of the working class male celebrated by John Osbourne and his like , and it does so by poking fun at the ideology of the male and his crude sexism . |
| 11 | Rosie Leventon 's Copper Floor involves 320 textured copper briquettes which could be seen as a woman 's reappropriation of Carl Andre 's Bricks . |
| 12 | Similar reactions were reported throughout Africa , where Mandela was already seen as a people 's hero at the time of his imprisonment in 1962 . |
| 13 | This chamber is equipped as a scribe 's workroom , and is inhabited by the Ghost of old Stanislav Goethe , a half-Kislevite ( on his mother 's side ) , half-Ostlander scholar . |
| 14 | However , if the property where your business operates is also used as a person 's home , only the business element will be taken into account when it is revalued . |
| 15 | Only an old man with his white hair cropped short and worn as a Jew 's cap had spoken to Holly with the wry grin of experience at his mouth . |
| 16 | Dressing to go to town , Nick could hear their voices through the open window and Marjorie 's occasional laughter , soft and contented as a cat 's purr . |
| 17 | The Republic of Benin ( known as a People 's Republic until February 1990 ) achieved full independence from France in 1960 . |
| 18 | Thus is politics defined as a man 's world . |
| 19 | Were you train er trained as a children 's nurse ? |
| 20 | The other , at Ashton , is the second-century strip building with a wide entrance , which has been identified as a blacksmith 's shop and contained five identifiable furnaces , a stone-lined quenching tank and numerous tools and completed metal objects . |
| 21 | Leo had dragged himself up from the East End , where his father , a first-generation Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine , had worked as a tailor 's cutter ; James , on the other hand , had had one of those privileged English upbringings . |
| 22 | The first was a Carol Pearson , of Muswell Hill , interesting to him because she had worked as a hairdresser 's improver at a shop in Eastcheap . |
| 23 | She had worked as a children 's nurse in Wirral hospitals for 20 years before taking a post with the local social services department , assisting young families in need . |
| 24 | Mack Sennett had come from a New England working-class background and he had himself worked as a plumber 's mate . |
| 25 | Orange juice is to be pitched as a sportsman 's drink in a new marketing strategy to be adopted by the Florida Citrus Commission . |
| 26 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott went back to his planning duties , although he did one more beach reconnaissance ahead of ships ' detachments of Royal Marines landing on Kupho island ( off Crete ) in a modest raid that destroyed a radar station , and might have brought back code books had not their metal safe been lost as a ship 's boat tilted in being hauled aboard a destroyer gathering speed . |
| 27 | In an age when the sea was even more of a man 's world than at present , and when women 's work outside the home was generally menial , Betsy Miller was the first woman to be recorded as a ship 's captain in the British Register of Tonnage at Lloyds . |
| 28 | A POLL tax write-off row has flared as a council 's shortfall heads for £27m . |
| 29 | Firstly , piecing together the BBC TV environment of the early Sixties shows why Doctor Who was not devised as a Children 's Series . |
| 30 | The Anzac Captain , drunk as a fiddler 's bitch , fumbled for their newly-opened magnum of champagne , and shook the bottle . |