Example sentences of "as a [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree , and this can stand as a cogent it incomplete description of what is meant by a political homosexuality . |
| 2 | He remains at heart a boy who grew up on a busy farm at St Martin 's , 14 miles from Llanymynech , the course on which as a seven-year-old he first took a golf club in his hands . |
| 3 | When you 've coped with a positive situation , which is in fact , I believe is is er , will do more harm that good , as a personal I believe , |
| 4 | Almost as a throw-away they added a fifth , the outward sprawl characteristic of outer London . |
| 5 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 6 | ‘ If they do n't know the face and you 're dressed as a casual they look you up and down . |
| 7 | SO Sarah Ferguson is deemed unsuitable for life as a Royal it seems to me many of the ‘ real ’ Royals are equally unsuitable . |
| 8 | As a romantic you will be glad to hear that today is a great time for making moves in this area . |
| 9 | As a romantic you will be glad to hear that today is a great time for making moves in this area . |
| 10 | As a romantic you will be glad to hear that today is a great time for making moves in this area . |
| 11 | As a preliminary we shall begin to examine the problem of how different kinds of discourse can be categorized , and the parameters which are best used to distinguish them . |
| 12 | On December 27 during a Soviet-backed coup Kabul , President Hafizzollah Amin was ousted and killed Regarded by Moscow as an incompetent he had failed to prevent the killing of Soviet " military advisers " in January and had proved incapable of controlling the Muslim rebels who opposed his government Amin was in danger of being over-thrown by a militant Muslim regime . |
| 13 | As an illegal she is completely outside the net of social welfare benefits . |
| 14 | As an ascetic he was in the mould of the medieval Christians , but when his heart overruled his intellect he would write warm , sensuous love poetry under the cloak of religion . |
| 15 | As an unknown you ca n't rely on the first , and very likely have no hip London friends or business connections to facilitate the second . |