Example sentences of "off as a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it started off as a school project , the spider catcher has attracted alot of outside interest . |
| 2 | We 'd get to one poem four or five days into the war , or after The Belgrano or Sir Galahad , and then you have ‘ Lie Still ’ … which is sombre , like a tribute , and then the others , like ‘ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ’ , which started off as a camp throwaway as a tango ; but the poems put together with an orchestra gives them much more depth . ’ |
| 3 | One young man , who was attending a large machine which was railed off as a safety precaution , warned Humphrey of the dangers of moving machinery . |
| 4 | Susan , from West Derby , started off as a trainee beautician aged 17 at the Finishing Touches Salon in Castle Street . |
| 5 | In the late Sixties , Kasmin swallowed his pride and set off as a travelling salesman on behalf of the gallery to America , travelling the States with a bagful of transparencies , finding out who was interested in art from the local museums , and visiting people who did n't get to New York . |
| 6 | Would Britain be better off as a theme park ? |
| 7 | He started off as a counter clerk |
| 8 | I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race . |
| 9 | Character statistics play very little part in the proceedings , which is unforgivable for a product passing itself off as a roleplaying game . |
| 10 | The better things presumed to be in store for Glasser when he went off as a scholarship boy to a glamorous university in the South of England are , in a sense , the subject of Gorbals Boy at Oxford , his second volume of autobiography . |