Example sentences of "as a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 When Italy entered the war he served as a lieutenant in the army , and , later , as a lieutenant-commander in the navy , working as a military communications consultant .
32 It follows from this that a consumer who uses an appliance which is not " ordinarily intended for private use " , such as a heavy goods vehicle , will not be covered beyond death or personal injury under the CPA 1987 .
33 From the pastoral comforts of the Plateau de Bénou , the road twists abruptly down past the villages of Bilhères and of Bielle , another valley ‘ capital ’ this , with some fine fifteenth-and sixteenth-century house fronts , but particularly commendable as a slated roofs cape seen from higher up the road — this is Béarn , and grey slates arc what you expect on roofs , no longer Basque tiles .
34 Possibly it has its origins in the ‘ white noise ’ techniques which the Brits , ever the innovators , pioneered in Northern Ireland in the 1970s ( it has always seemed unjust that what was deplored then as a human rights abuse was later marketed under the brand name of acid house ) .
35 Family planning Salvadorean fashion has become so notorious as to be classified as a human rights issue .
36 I recognise that dealing effectively and sensitively with rape as a human rights violation requires careful treatment and consideration .
37 Linguistics may be studied either as a single honours degree or as part of a joint honours degree .
38 Accounting can not be studied as a single honours degree .
39 French may be studied at Edinburgh not only at all levels of MA(General) and MA ( General Honours ) but as a single honours subject ( with a secondary subject taken in the first two years ) ; or as the major or minor subject in a wide variety of joint degrees , where it is combined with another modern European language , or with one of a number of Arts Faculty subjects , or even with subjects ( Business Studies and Law ) from other faculties .
40 Students specialise in either Danish , Norwegian or Swedish and the chosen area may then be studied as a single honours course or part of a joint honours course in Modern European Languages and with Scottish Ethnology or Linguistics .
41 With the recent establishment of C&P Ltd , all of ICI 's interests in acrylics are fully integrated as a single Acrylics Business [ which was n't always the case ] .
42 The French approach to North America had been rather different ; they had penetrated to the interior by the two great river systems , the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi , and began developing them as a single communications route linked by the Great Lakes and running through the hinterland west and north of the British settlements .
43 The British Transport Police will continue as a single police force , one that is responsible for policing Britain 's Rail Network after the 1st April .
44 VINNY CUNNINGHAM , the Irish centre who has flown to New Zealand as a British Lions replacement for the injured Scott Hastings , accepts his need to get fit in a hurry .
45 The support post proved successful enough to establish Manchester as a national datasets centre with considerable expertise in handling and analysing Census data .
46 Back at the Bank , Lorraine works as a Senior Systems Programmer in Technology , Margaret is in the Economics Department , and Gill is in Personal Banking Services .
47 Earlier this week the members of the University Lecturers ' Association at the school , where Mrs Falconer 's post as a senior textiles lecturer is being made compulsorily redundant , voted 19-2 for the one-day strike , with the threat of escalating their action next week .
48 As a previous personnel director of ICI once said , treating people well makes good moral sense — and even better business sense .
49 To describe oneself as a fine chemicals supplier , therefore , requires self-confidence , not to say courage .
50 He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents .
51 An Indonesian-registered freighter , the Perintis , carrying 32 containers of toxic pesticide , sank on March 15 , 1989 , in an area of the English Channel described by the UK Ministry of Defence as a conventional explosives dumping ground .
52 Compact can be regarded as an equal opportunities initiative .
53 If it was n't , and he came back and caught me , then I 'd have to fall back on my story as an over-enthusiastic games player .
54 TESL was run as an alternative methods course for a few years , until TEFL/TESL became a combined methods course in 1986 .
55 If it does n't port to NT , how could it defend its position as an open systems company , the newsletter asks , anticipating that Sun may find itself in the ‘ embarrassing position of being one of the only significant RISC systems vendors not offering Windows NT on its systems . ’
56 It also suggests picking Berlin as an Olympic Games site .
57 As an undercover customs agent based in Tampa , Florida , it was his suggestion to target a small-time Colombian drug-money launderer called Gonzalo Mora Jnr that eventually led to the uncovering of a huge laundering operation centred on BCCI .
58 And with a history of political stability , business freedom and international competitiveness ideal for business to grow and prosper , Singapore has established itself as an excellent telecommunications hub and global business centre .
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