Example sentences of "as an [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winning entry came from Dr and Mrs J.D. Sayers of Nottingham , who receive a copy of The National Trust Guide for correctly identifying the item in the photograph as an Overbeck 's Rejuvenator , patented in 1924 by the scientist Otto Overbeck . |
| 2 | The Lieutenant 's friends were advised that the only way of getting to India , short of enlisting as a private soldier , was to travel as an officer 's servant , though with the prospect of becoming a recognised volunteer upon arrival . |
| 3 | Ultimately water authority staff prize personal qualities as an officer 's most important attributes . |
| 4 | As an act 's appearance fees become higher , the agent may settle for a smaller percentage . |
| 5 | He kneeled in prayer between her thighs , his face cruel as an angel 's . |
| 6 | The American film-maker Maya Deren says somewhere that ‘ response should always precede analysis ’ , a remark which sounds as if it was made as an artist 's challenge to academic dryness and formalism . |
| 7 | Lance-Corporal John Shaw ( 1789–1815 ) , a prize-fighter whose magnificent physique caused him to be much in demand as an artist 's model . |
| 8 | In need of money , he agreed to take on work as an artist 's model when Ricky Stride said he knew of an artist who would employ him , for Minton had seen photographs of Bowler and had remarked what a good model he would make . |
| 9 | With Minton 's help he obtained work at the Royal College as an artist 's model until he decided to return home where his future was secured for him through marriage and the management of a pub . |
| 10 | A public-school education led to a secretarial college where she suddenly rebelled , sought work as an artist 's model , entered Soho , quickly becoming an habituée and one of the stars in Muriel Belcher 's galère . |
| 11 | Her requirements were few , and she earned a meagre living as an artist 's model , most notably for Auguste Rodin , whom she met in 1904 , and for whose unfinished monument to Whistler she posed . |
| 12 | Then , before she could reply at all , ‘ Which reminds me — how 's life as an artist 's model ? ’ |
| 13 | Sally knew her mother had trouble making ends meet on the nine pounds ten shillings a week that her father brought home from his job as an electrician 's mate and she did n't have the heart to plead for luxuries she knew they could not afford as Paula did . |
| 14 | a short time in farming Councillor worked for Fosters Electrical Engineers , Basingstoke as an electrician 's mate . |
| 15 | Consequently , alcohol abuse should be dealt with not as a problem in itself , but as an individual 's reaction to social distress . |
| 16 | Such effects could take place at a number of different levels within the political system : an individual 's relationship to another could change as a result of the media just as an individual 's relationship to an institution could change as an outcome of media work , and so on . |
| 17 | Seen in this gallery context it invites us to view it as an individual 's response to a constructed drama . |
| 18 | Ethnicity , like social class , presents problems of definition , but can reasonably be described as an individual 's sense of belonging to a distinctive group whose members share a common history and culture . |
| 19 | Idiosyncratic gestures , such as an individual 's habit of tossing back a strand of hair , are more likely to be signals of personal character or state of mind which are transmitted unintentionally and unconsciously . |
| 20 | Tuning of a viola , in this forest delicate as an owl 's ear , |
| 21 | He began as an optician 's apprentice , and also exhibited water-colour paintings at the Royal Institution and wrote simple novelettes . |
| 22 | On the contrary , ‘ few things are regarded so cheaply as an animal 's life … |
| 23 | The pipes wailed and squealed into life , then caught their air to fill the room with a martial sound as the company , two by two and slow as an army 's progress up a country road , went in to supper . |
| 24 | Mrs Wren says that the young person does not look as an ambassador 's niece should … ’ |
| 25 | The roaring of the American boom rang round the Western world where everyone in every hard-pressed country saw the new world as an Aladdin 's cave of American goods , American entertainment and the American style of living . |
| 26 | ‘ Handsome is as handsome does , ’ snapped Matey , who as an ex-children 's nurse had a fund of such sayings . |
| 27 | He defines distinctiveness as an item 's incongruity with respect to active conceptual frameworks . |
| 28 | She had fine , white skin , not opaque and dull , but translucent and bright , with the vivid come-and-go of vibrant blood close beneath it ; and she had beautiful hair , fine as an infant 's and black as jet , curving but not curling about a very shapely head , and cropped cunningly to underline the subtlety of the shaping . |
| 29 | Within days of moving up he assumed a Farmer Giles accent , extra-shapeless trousers ( nothing is so sexless as an Englishman 's trousers ) , broken boots ( ‘ They do n't just let water in , they suck it in , ’ he said proudly ) , and most important , a bucket hat , of which he had a whole series . |
| 30 | Note that this does n't mean that a character can carry a cannon , a Helblaster volley gun , or any other very special weapon such as an Engineer 's Repeater Hand Gun . |