Example sentences of "as a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other grants recently given to firms include : — Barry Chow , Wilson Street , £14,880 to help modify empty building for take-away restaurant , with up to ten jobs created ; — Ruby Tuesday , Parliament Road , £11,804 to help create extra space for planned business expansion by fashion accessories firm , with five additional jobs planned ; — S Upex and Son , North Ormesby Road , £7,690 to help improve premises ; — Tyne Tees Cash-and-Carry , Cargo Fleet Lane , £20,975 to help reconstruction of access road and security fencing ; — A Razzaq , Linthorpe Road , £6,667 to help refurbish property used as a take-away restaurant ; — Laing Employment Training Organisation , Parliament Road , £1,908 to help with site security at its base in the old Cleveland Transit bus depot ; — Fletcher Investment Consultants , Wilson Street , £1,108 towards painting and cleaning outside of premises . |
| 2 | To describe Yamaha 's new TG100 as a tone generator is really to tell only half the story . |
| 3 | This is realized phonologically as a tone group , with the peak of prominence or tonic accent falling on the new element . |
| 4 | A 7:1 ratio gives both a pleasing shape and sufficient depth to be useful as a fruit bowl . |
| 5 | Fruit can either be eaten whole or as a fruit salad . |
| 6 | So after the early strawberries have been protected , use the cloches as a fruit cage . |
| 7 | ‘ Then you really are nutty as a fruit cake , ’ Nick said with conviction . |
| 8 | He used his varied talents as a soil improver , a collector and grower of newly available exotic trees and shrubs , and an impresario of entertaining devices , ranging from a water-wheel pump to a grotto , a hermitage , and rare sculptures and follies , ingeniously placed to create a series of agreeable surprises on a tour revealing successive aspects of nature presented in terms of art . |
| 9 | Although this example relates to what have been termed ‘ imposed ’ areal units , that have no landscape reality ( Unwin 1981 ) , it is increasingly necessary to create aggregations of population over ‘ natural ’ areal units such as a soil association or outcrop of a particular rock type . |
| 10 | It is enough to say here that slag should be used sparingly as a soil conditioner from time to time , and not as a routine crop food . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's ideal as a soil conditioner and for tree planting , and besides being used here it is being used in planting Cleveland 's new Community Forest . ’ |
| 12 | Bark chippings can also be used as a mowing strip against the wall . |
| 13 | Last week , we inaccurately described David James , the company doctor at the helm of Eagle Trust , Davies & Newman and Lep Group , as a Postern director . |
| 14 | We have had a good year with minor upsets , such as a cataract operation for me which was no trouble at all , and has resulted in a dramatic improvement in my eyesight . |
| 15 | GREAT grand-dad Tommy Kirk is retiring as a meals-on-wheels driver — at the age of NINETY THREE . |
| 16 | A course of five Ionithermie treatments usually costs between £180 and £220 , depending on the beauty salon , but as a Hairflair reader , you are entitled to a 25% discount . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's only one blind tee shot ; everything is in view , ’ said Johnny , who drew on his recollection of memorable holes he faced as a Tour player in the 1960s . |
| 18 | Thomas Cook began as a tour operator organizing and selling his own tours and soon became an agent as well , selling all kinds of travel on behalf of other suppliers , particularly the railway companies . |
| 19 | The sandy-haired , handsome French-Canadian , Gilles , worked as a tour guide in Rio . |
| 20 | Used as a revision book it can prompt and encourage some self-questioning but it is too brief to use as a teaching document . |
| 21 | Use of the library as a teaching space inhibiting continuous access to its resources |
| 22 | This can be used as a teaching session while providing the senior nurse with some of the information required for the management of the unit . |
| 23 | Further , during these years the possibilities of the wireless as a teaching medium was being explored through the BBC 's ‘ Listening-in ’ groups . |
| 24 | However , this was an exceptional attitude as there was widespread scepticism of radio as a teaching medium and its possibilities did not really materialise for at least another decade . |
| 25 | The general picture , then , is of project work being rather a vague area , with little attempt being made to capitalise on its potential as a teaching technique . |
| 26 | It was only with great effort that was able to get them to arrange the Open Door Schooling visit so that it was useful as a teaching exercise , instead of being a ceremonial procession through the commune . |
| 27 | In 1925 Gow returned to Cambridge as a teaching fellow of Trinity . |
| 28 | Wrong examples confuse pupils who already have difficulties with words , so never give an incorrect example on the board as a teaching point . |
| 29 | Mozart later took the work with him to Mannheim and Paris , using it as a teaching piece . |
| 30 | When articulated as a teaching programme for English one of the most interesting features of this urge to develop a " common touch " , or an affective bond between teachers and taught , is the centrality to be accorded to popular tastes , however " crude and unformed " they might be considered to be . |