Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth , who met her fiance on holiday five years ago , was described last night as a kind person who ‘ would not see evil in anyone ’ . |
| 2 | The medium-to long-term outlook is optimistic ; the success of the Modular Course educationally , academically , and as a management system which has maintained high morale among staff during difficult times , makes it a hard example to ignore . |
| 3 | Now I think as a management team we need to think about what our strategy , our tactics are gon na be with regard to this . |
| 4 | ‘ As a management team we are all excited by the buy-out and we hope the new owners will take on some of our ideas and extend the services that we provide . ’ |
| 5 | Although Dalgliesh knew of Alice Mair 's reputation as a cookery writer he had never read any of her books and had no idea to what culinary school , if any , she belonged . |
| 6 | As a temperance organisation it was particularly stunned to discover that some its missing money has been invested in drinking and gambling establishments . |
| 7 | Williams , a right-wing , self-made multimillionaire with interests in oil , telecommunications and ranching , who had never before held elected office , presented himself as a Texan cowboy who was " as comfortable on the back of a horse as … in a corporate board room " . |
| 8 | Finally as a Church Fellowship we have just embarked on an exciting journey which I believe the Lord is going to honour . |
| 9 | Head teacher Sheila Davies commented : ‘ As a church school we teach the children to appreciate what they have , and point out there are a lot of people in the world who are worse off . |
| 10 | referred to by Lavinia Spenlow as a girlhood suitor who never declared his love . |
| 11 | ( It may , however , be worth remembering that Indira Gandhi became prime minister of India as a compromise candidate who others thought they could manipulate . ) |
| 12 | SISTER ACT : Farce starring Whoopi Goldberg as a nightclub singer who takes refuge in a convent after witnessing a murder . |
| 13 | Images are presented electrically to an optoelectronic array as a bit pattern which are is then sent in parallel by the device to a laser beam . |
| 14 | Images are presented electrically to an optoelectronic array as a bit pattern which are then sent in parallel by the device to a laser beam . |
| 15 | As a reporter gene we used a 2μ-CYC1 promoter-LacZ plasmid derived from pLG 312 ( ref. 28 ) containing the adenovirus major late promoter element GTAGGCXCACGTGACCGGGTGT ( ref. 29 ) inserted between the Sma I and Xho I sites . |
| 16 | As a con man he knew that paradoxically part of his appeal was his unsavouriness , so unlike the smooth Washington types with silver spoons in their mouths . |
| 17 | Roger , Lord North , admitted that as a subsidy commissioner he had let men off lightly in Cambridgeshire : everyone was known to be worth ten times his assessment in goods and six times in land ; some were worth twenty or thirty times their assessments . |
| 18 | As a test gene we used a β-globin gene whose promoter consists solely of an octamer sequence and a TATA box . |
| 19 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 20 | Nigerian-born John Salako came up through the Palace 's Junior ranks as a pacy winger who could also score goals but , since The Eagles ' last return to the 1st Division , John has shown himself' capable of fulfilling other roles , by performing splendidly at left-back in the latter stages of the 1989–90 season , notably in the FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool and in the Wembley Finals . |
| 21 | In the later 1650s , for example , Oliver Cromwell came to see himself as a second Moses who , having led his people out of the Egyptian slavery of Laudianism and through the Red Sea of civil war , was now struggling to bring them towards the Promised Land . |
| 22 | It is accepted that change in this unilinear aspect will indeed appear in our quantified findings — as a crossover pattern which violates the pattern of stable norms ( as in Labov 's classic example of class/style overlap for post-vocalic /r/ in New York City ) , and I shall discuss examples of this in later chapters . |
| 23 | Tom Cruise , 30 , is tipped to win an Oscar for his performance as a navy lawyer who teams up with Demi Moore , 30 , battling against tough base commander Nicholson , 55 . |
| 24 | As a late potato , as a keeping potato I always grow Wilger Now I grow Wilger because it , it browns well when it 's roasted . |
| 25 | It is mainly used as a phosphate source which , as it also contains some lime , has an alkaline reaction . |
| 26 | Thatcham is funded by the insurance industry as a specialist operation which researches and measures how long all repair jobs should take , something of which most consumers will be unaware . |
| 27 | Though he has a good deal of contact with senior officials ( and in the northern agency spends most of his time at headquarters ) he has a strong loyalty to the field officers in his area , retaining from his own earlier experience as a field officer what he feels to be a sympathetic understanding of practical problems . |
| 28 | With these photographs as a reference point we can expect a traditional Gandini shape when we see the car on 15 September next year , the 110th anniversary of Ettore Bugatti 's birth . |
| 29 | The final point which needs to be made about ethnicity is that as a speaker variable it can not usually be isolated from social class . |
| 30 | In all my days as a Whaddon resident I do not recall a Descartes family in the neighbourhood and surely ( please God ) there can not be two Keith Chegwins in the world ? |