Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun sg] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know you 've always been jealous of my success as a model , but I wo n't allow you to ruin things for Garry and me . ’ |
| 2 | But let me give you the peak of my experience as a cancer patient . |
| 3 | It now appears that , in addition to this , I will be expected to part with a further portion of my income as a graduate tax to pay for my education , the last three years of which I am spending in hospitals , not only studying , but assisting on a voluntary basis with essential clinical procedures and tests . |
| 4 | I 've never thought of my divorce as a failure . |
| 5 | In a memorandum written for the Commons ' Energy Committee , Andrew Holmes , the editor of Power in Europe , wrote , ‘ In the course of my work as a journalist , I have met a few environmentalists who can envisage some kind of long-term accommodation with the nuclear power industry , If waste disposal and other problems are satisfactorily solved ; I have never met an environmentalist who was not wholly and implacably opposed to the FBR . ’ |
| 6 | Before the legalities had been completed , early in 1973 , I went to a local youth club to show slides of my work as a missionary . |
| 7 | I have been making notes on these for more than seventy years in the interest of my work as a cataloguer and expert at the Print Department . |
| 8 | The attic also provides an incidental history of my life as a writer . |
| 9 | This catalogue of pressures and constraints is not the entire story of my life as a lesbian involved in work with girls and young women . |
| 10 | ‘ I was on the other end of the question for most of my life as a British Telecom customer manager , and I always tried to see the view of the underdog , because there is just a chance he might be right , ’ he said . |
| 11 | When I went in for medicine I had the feeling that maybe I would take out an appendix on the kitchen table … now this has been a big disappointment of my life as a GP that whatever I can do , there 's someone else who can do much , much better . |
| 12 | Enoch Powell later cited this indication of my position as a kind of pledge from which , when events turned out as they did , I should have had the whole Cabinet 's leave formally to withdraw . |
| 13 | ‘ I have earned a comfortable living from Party Planners but I lost the bulk of my money as a Lloyd 's Name , ’ she said . |
| 14 | I can , therefore , think of my movement as a superposition , or addition , of these easterly and northerly movements . |
| 15 | I had just left the shelter of my brolly as a pout started to rattle my rod tip when a 5 oz sinker ripped a hole through my brolly . |
| 16 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 17 | He said of the Coronation poster : ‘ I always thought the idea for that poster was the apogee of my career as a copywriter because , although I enjoyed thinking up ideas , I always founding writing copy very hard work . ’ |
| 18 | My story is similar to Annie 's in that I made the same mistake and thought of my granddaughter as a substitute child . |
| 19 | Working in such a school in the mid-1950s , part of my task as a very inexperienced junior teacher was to explain almost daily to parents that Peter or John or Mary would learn their tables , and learn to compute , despite the fact that they were using apparatus rather than sum books and were active rather than passive . |
| 20 | Or is it that When the vile or appalling ‘ lies quite close , but can not be assimilated … at the border of my condition as a living being ’ ( Julia Kristeva ) , what is produced is a momentarily heightened sense of one 's own aliveness , teetering on the brink of extinction ? |
| 21 | Could I in fact have chosen in a manner more worthy of my dignity as a rational agent ? |
| 22 | Part of my job as a media commentator is to slag off other journalists — it 's what makes it all worthwhile — and I 've put knees into the groins of such eminences as Alastair Burnet , Peter Sissons and Donald Trelford , without so much as a raised eyebrow in Kingsland or City roads . |
| 23 | One of the advantages of my job as a Minister representing local government is that I travel throughout the country . |
| 24 | I give this portion of my estate as a thank-offering in the firm conviction that never again shall we have such a chance of giving our country that form of help which is so vital at the present time . |
| 25 | This is a play for two characters , Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen , the World War One poets , and it would obviously be a good thing to read some of their poetry as a background to performing this piece . |
| 26 | Most people probably think of their home as a ‘ safe ’ place but , in reality , the average home is potentially a very dangerous environment . |
| 27 | And what image did the media give Tanzanians of their country as a cultural entity ? |
| 28 | Examining war artists past and present , ANN KODICEK considers the role of their art as a barometer of public opinion . |
| 29 | Examining war artists past and present , ANN KODICEK considers the role of their art as a barometer of public opinion . |
| 30 | Island authorities are keen to take advantage of their position as a self-governing Crown protectorate to attract offshore investment funds . |