Example sentences of "as a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only an old man with his white hair cropped short and worn as a Jew 's cap had spoken to Holly with the wry grin of experience at his mouth . |
| 2 | But this low-born de Burgh , this double man despite himself , even while he leaned back greedily , hankering after lands with the ambition of the landless , even while he envied the de Blundevilles and the Marshalls and composed about himself a synthetic replica of their hereditary splendour , yet saw England by glimpses as Isambard saw it , an empire not decomposing and falling to insecure tatters like the Emperor 's sprawling hold , but compact as a clenched fist , solvent as a Jew 's treasury and self-sufficient as a well-run manor , a power not hemmed in but completed and transmitted by the sea . |
| 3 | Unlike France , where lamb is still , in spite of its easy availability , regarded as a prince 's dish , the Germans think of it as something else . |
| 4 | I remember watching Ian 's first match for Border as a Queen 's College schoolboy . |
| 5 | The entertainer Frankie Vaughan has been fulfilling his new role as a Queen 's representative for his county . |
| 6 | The earwig is not immediately recognisable as a gardener 's friend , and has been known to damage fruit . |
| 7 | As a gardener 's daughter she would have been accustomed to muddy boots and black finger-nails . |
| 8 | I mean , nobody would ever believe you 'd been brought up as a gardener 's boy ! |
| 9 | sixty percent of customers buy first through re recommendations , for instance , right , if I can prove to you that sixty percent of customers buy , buy first through recommendations , right , would you not see that as a kind er reason why you should buy first as well ? |
| 10 | Her stomach and oviduct do not have muscles which can contract and so expel her young as a mammal 's womb has . |
| 11 | After three years working as a photographer 's assistant , Jason decided to get out of the ‘ rat race ’ and joined ecologically-minded art group Reactivart . |
| 12 | Roles began his career by serving his apprenticeship as a photographer 's assistant after leaving school , but then transferred to an education in sculpture and painting . |
| 13 | And a recent trip by the mayor of Las Vegas has raised hopes for the sale of the train as a gamblers ' special to link the city with Los Angeles . |
| 14 | Wright sees flexibility as a polytechnic 's greatest asset . |
| 15 | The library doubles as a gentleman 's room , or , failing that ( for Kerr remarks elsewhere that ‘ the ladies are not exactly excluded ’ from it ) , they are sure to have the billiard-room to themselves , while the young of the sex may ‘ do as they like ’ in the odd room . |
| 16 | In the cynical world of F1 , we tend to accept the number of noughts as a driver 's way of keeping score , but the local bricklayer has an acute realisation of what he could afford to buy with £6,000,000 ! |
| 17 | The Causey Mounth dates back to the 12th century , when it was first established as a drover 's road . |
| 18 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 19 | But erm there were one or two little hiccups of that sort where erm temporary staff were erm regarded as a bit er second rate citizens |
| 20 | She has a small part in a new Christopher Columbus movie , due out in February , and a lead role as a brewer 's daughter with ambitions in Monty Python man Eric Idle 's new film comedy Splitting Heirs . |
| 21 | Erm well as a housewife erm hm we we were poor people . |
| 22 | ‘ I have earned a comfortable living from Party Planners but I lost the bulk of my money as a Lloyd 's Name , ’ she said . |
| 23 | And I I do n't see there is a need for an additional reference to those policies , it seems to me that erm the references to in migration pressures are correct as a consideration erm if you like as a erm numerical basis in terms of assessing what have been made in the county . |
| 24 | Because my elder sister she left home when she was about sixteen I think , she went erm into she was working there as a matron 's maid . |
| 25 | Maybe we shall have to wait until he 's 50 to see him again , as a Seniors ' Champion . |
| 26 | The old galaxy department er , galaxy class as a enterprise erm , the old er galaxy air lift plane with the as well |
| 27 | And as each year went along , erm we were determined as a committee erm that we would lay claims , natural justifiable claims to the employer to increase the remuneration in regard to the incentive scheme . |
| 28 | I think that 's what we 're aiming to do now , get things set up as a standard er , operating erm , levels , having done that then we begin |
| 29 | let me just get back that was abhorrent as a word w has already been used and er should be used again by what you said , you saw s somebody being raped by two soldiers . |
| 30 | was built afterwards as a servant 's house . |