Example sentences of "as a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Though he has a good deal of contact with senior officials ( and in the northern agency spends most of his time at headquarters ) he has a strong loyalty to the field officers in his area , retaining from his own earlier experience as a field officer what he feels to be a sympathetic understanding of practical problems . |
| 32 | With these photographs as a reference point we can expect a traditional Gandini shape when we see the car on 15 September next year , the 110th anniversary of Ettore Bugatti 's birth . |
| 33 | The final point which needs to be made about ethnicity is that as a speaker variable it can not usually be isolated from social class . |
| 34 | In all my days as a Whaddon resident I do not recall a Descartes family in the neighbourhood and surely ( please God ) there can not be two Keith Chegwins in the world ? |
| 35 | As a child actress you had some nasty moments on the film Roar , did n't you ? |
| 36 | David as a child peoples his neighbourhood with its scenes and characters , including Gamaliel Pickle , Peregrine 's father , Commodore Trunnion , and Tom Pipes ; its story is the first of those he recounts to Steerforth at Salem House , DC 4 , 7 . |
| 37 | As a textile man I do n't mind woolliness too much but I do object to vagueness because this motion is so vague that it can mean as much as you want it to mean while , at the same time , it says to little as to leave an escape route for it 's supporters . |
| 38 | ‘ I want to issue a challenge to Michael Fallon : will he explain why he believes people in Darlington should earn less than £3.40 a hour when as a government minister he earned £1,000 a week . ’ |
| 39 | On Feb. 27 Spegelj reportedly sent a letter reminding the prosecutor that as a government member he enjoyed immunity from prosecution . |
| 40 | This is defined as a goods vehicle which does not form part of a vehicle combination and has a relevant plated weight not exceeding 3500kg , or ( not having a plated weight ) has an unladen weight not exceeding 1525kg . |
| 41 | And the other half used to go as a window leather which are called st |
| 42 | As a solo instrument it is admirable for the expression of poignant melodies or short expressive phrases , and is , of course , a sine qua non in music of a pastoral nature . |
| 43 | The building was originally constructed as a brick core which was then covered with thin slabs of marble tied to the brick by means of ferrous cramps . |
| 44 | Simply measuring height can mean a communication problem between children and their parents , but as a university lecturer I face a much greater difficulty because the use of just one inadvertent ‘ old ’ term can easily lose a class of students . |
| 45 | It 's hard to imagine that the smart two-seater started out as a Triumph Herald which failed its MoT . |
| 46 | In fact if we were n't doing it as a unison group we 'd probably do it ourselves anyway because of the fact that we 've got nine separate branches and we 'd want to have a bit of erm common , common strategy if you like between the branches anyway . |
| 47 | As a story line it 's not all because it does n't say anything about the girl , it does n't say where she 's going , where she 's come from and what 's happening on the way . |
| 48 | The church council may very well wish to contend that the acquisition and disposal of the new site is a non-trading transaction , and that any resultant surplus should be regarded as a capital gain which , if applied for charitable purposes , would be exempt from CGT . |
| 49 | This Order , which is now in force , amends the provisions of The Building Societies ( Supplementary Capital ) Order 1988 in terms of the specification of supplementary capital as a capital resource which building societies may aggregate with the reserves to assess the adequacy of their reserves and other designated capital resources under s 45(3) of the 1986 Act . |
| 50 | As a capital city whose population includes , among students and more generally , a wide variety of religious , national and ethnic groups , Edinburgh can offer ethnically-based social facilities and opportunities for meetings for several forms of non-Christian religious observance . |
| 51 | As a capital city whose population includes among students and more generally , a wide variety of religious , national and ethnic groups , Edinburgh can offer ethnically-based social facilities and opportunities for meetings for several forms of non-christian religious observance . |
| 52 | As a foundation material it is only used by nomadic and some village weavers . |
| 53 | As a foundation material it has numerous advantages : it is strong , does not lose its shape and can be spun into strands sufficiently thin to allow fine weaving . |
| 54 | As a seduction suite it had its shortcomings , he reflected as he unzipped his jeans , stepped out of them , and slung them onto the sofa with the rest of the day 's rubbish . |
| 55 | ‘ I suppose as a holiday house it is a bit far from Sydney . ’ |
| 56 | As a kitchen maid who had regularly to dress fowls , and probably to wring their necks , it is again doubtful that Leapor would be squeamish about hares . |
| 57 | He said that if either the Conservatives or Labour sought to go it alone as a minority Government they risked an economic crisis and rising interest rates . |
| 58 | As a minority shareholder you 're in no position to get anything out of Richard . |
| 59 | Hypocrisy is a key element in this plot , too , with the difference that while they started near the top of society and were on the verge of receiving power at the very beginning , he — as a bastard son who is only just back from having spent nine years abroad ( the typical occupation for one who has no prospect of inheritance in his own country ) and is due to go again — starts very much lower down in society , virtually at the bottom . |
| 60 | The top personnel in these enterprises have been referred to as a state bourgeoisie. we can , therefore , identify three fractions : domestic capitalists ; managers of multinationals and top administrators of public enterprises . |