Example sentences of "as [adj] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Cam Renton , central character of that book , joins the Langdale as junior apprentice at the age of sixteen he has already served a year of his training and is disillusioned about the whole process . |
| 2 | The fiction I had read predicted gaudy roles for me — as private tutor at the old stone mansion where peacocks roost in the yew hedges and chalky bones are discovered in the sealed-up priest 's hole ; as gullible ingénu at an eccentric private establishment on the Welsh borders stuffed with robust drunkards and covert lechers . |
| 3 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
| 4 | As regional policy at the national and EC level has evolved over the years , in order to ensure that national assistance does not conflict with the pursuit of competition and free trade , the EC has defined criteria for determining aid eligibility ( usually on the basis of GDP per capita and/or unemployment rates ) . |
| 5 | There were fears already of the likelihood of war with Germany , and the military performance in the Boer War caused new fears that Britain might face military as well as economic defeat at the hands of her chief rival . |
| 6 | Given the current technical framework and the likely developments in the future , how can British broadcasting be financed in such a way as to brine the greatest enjoyment and pleasure to as many viewers and listeners as possible while at the same time fulfilling the public service obligation ? |
| 7 | The aim was to get the weight as low as possible while at the same time maintain adequate surface area . |
| 8 | General Robert Nivelle , who had taken Joffre 's place as French Commander-in-Chief at the end of 1916 , was particularly confident . |
| 9 | AS FRENCH outrage at the dismissal of charges against M Paul Touvier for alleged crimes committed during the Nazi occupation grew yesterday , the National Assembly suspended its afternoon session so that deputies could attend a demonstration at the Memorial of Deportation on the Ile de la Cite . |
| 10 | Ramsey was one of four masons on a commission to survey the Tower of London in 1335 , and on 1 June 1336 he received a patent as chief mason at the Tower and chief surveyor of the king 's works south of Trent for life , at one shilling a day and a robe every year . |
| 11 | By the autumn of 1933 , he was deputising for Mosley as chief speaker at the largest rallies of the BUF , where the audiences numbered several thousand . |
| 12 | He had received the news as chief reporter at the Bishop Auckland office of The Northern Echo . |
| 13 | Of his short time as joint professor at the Veterinary College , no certain information has survived . |
| 14 | Coote , who replaced Andy Roberts as mid-range boss at the beginning of April , says the decision to use HyperSparc was taken only three months ago . |
| 15 | The second from Joan Daniels thanking the teachers for her garden chair presented on her retirement from Office as Honorary Treasurer at the AGM and hoping for the weather to use it . |
| 16 | It is drawing upon and developing the recent work of Harvard economists in the USA and will use data from some of the case studies which figure in the other projects , as well as econometric analysis at the industry level . |
| 17 | Dennis 's last years as general secretary at the BMC — already personally unhappy for him because of his divorce — were made professionally difficult by the unprincipled , sustained and often personal vendetta conducted against him by the man termed , in this book 's account of the period , as ‘ the BMC 's tame Rottweiler ’ . |
| 18 | Instead , thanks to Adolf Hitler , he was employed as military attaché at the British Embassy in Lisbon where he unofficially represented SOE . |
| 19 | It is likely to attract criticism from members on the grounds that it exploits the plight of the unemployed by using them as cheap labour at the same time as removing them from the unemployment statistics . |
| 20 | Mr Richard Wilson , a deputy secretary in the Treasury , is to succeed Sir Terence Heiser as Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment in June . |
| 21 | In the words of Sir Frank Newsam , Cunningham 's predecessor as Permanent Secretary at the Home Office , the Directors stood : |