Example sentences of "as [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
| 2 | Daniel was now sixteen and working as clerk to a lawyer in the town . |
| 3 | Given the fact that insistent negation in dreams and the speech is interpreted by psychoanalysis as resistance to a truth which the conscious mind would sooner deny , are the negatives not perhaps to be disregarded altogether ? |
| 4 | All my friends and playmates were Indian and , since my father 's job was to act as guardian to a Maharajah some five years older than me , I looked upon Bahadur as an older brother . |
| 5 | Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool . |
| 6 | Any firm which can demonstrate the appropriate experience will be able to act as sponsor to a company applying for listing . |
| 7 | They are more plausible when taken as responses to a question about dependent conditionals which in fact has more claim to be regarded as the principal one . |
| 8 | ‘ Class ’ of vehicle shall be construed as reference to a class defined or described by reference to any characteristics of the vehicles or to any other circumstances whatsoever ( section 192(3) Road Traffic Act 1988 ) . |
| 9 | The Bank of England acts as banker to a variety of customers , many of whom would be atypical clients of a commercial bank : |
| 10 | Shortly after our stepfather died , our mother , Lydia , made her first leap across the Pacific to live with a Javanese guru in Jakarta , and brought back tales which inspired our first visits to Indonesia , as delegates to a Subud conference . |
| 11 | Minor complaints such as uncivility to a member of the public can be dealt with by a system of informal resolution . |
| 12 | In translating from a language such as Arabic to a language such as English , the unmarked predicator + subject structure would normally be translated by an equally unmarked structure such as subject + predicator rather than by an identical but highly marked structure which places the predicator in initial position . |
| 13 | Barbara not only acted as secretary to a succession of senior managers including Harold Worland and Raymond Anderson , she also carried out the secretarial work for the Board for many years . |
| 14 | With lexical verbs , the infinitive evokes its event as incident to a support which receives the incidence of the lexical verb 's event in the same time-stretch as that required to represent the infinitive 's actualization . |
| 15 | Indeed , increasing the power of an independent and autonomous parliament could further weaken the connection between government and the people and could institutionalise our passivity as spectators to a game over which we have no real control and only limited influence . |
| 16 | The unit also acts as host to a money advice worker . |
| 17 | A rock outcrop , set into the bank , acts as host to a stream that tumbles into the water below . |
| 18 | He set off on a ‘ Grand Tour ’ of Europe , following directions and advice from his friend Andrew Balfour ( later published posthumously as Letters to a Friend ) . |
| 19 | The life of the royal family is divided into statutory relationships with deserving institutions like the Queen 's position as Colonel-in-Chief to a regiment , slightly more informal but none the less prescribed relations with deserving causes as in the patronage of charities , and informal relations between the royals and their friends ( in the case of some of the younger royals , a decidedly untweedy group of property developers , showbiz celebrities , and Gstaad nightclubbers ) . |
| 20 | ( a ) references to a principal shall be construed , in relation to a recognised body , as references to a director of that body ; |