Example sentences of "as a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GREAT grand-dad Tommy Kirk is retiring as a meals-on-wheels driver — at the age of NINETY THREE . |
| 2 | The gaming tables are long gone , and the building is now used as a cattle shelter . |
| 3 | Between the house and the barn is the smallest of the three buildings which has been reconstructed as a cattle byre ( animal house ) . |
| 4 | She was dressed as a munitions worker , and when he switched on the light her hair had blazed under the dim bulb . |
| 5 | Familiar with army ways , Curran served in the Indian Army in India , Cyprus , and Italy from 1941 to 1945 before completing his degree in history in 1946 with a first class in part ii and joining the British Broadcasting Corporation as a talks producer in 1947 . |
| 6 | As a beekeepers wife I have for many years had to use soap powder rather than scented detergent as bees do n't appreciate the chemical scents in many whiter-than-white products ( Letters NI 208 ) . |
| 7 | It would probably be Gascoigne 's last appearence as a Spurs player before his proposed £5.5 million transfer to Lazio , subject to a medical on his damaged knee ligaments . |
| 8 | Others have had a boomerang effect by wiping out natural predators or by obligingly clearing the habitat for another , though equally troublesome , pest-Herbicides which killed poppies in wheatfields cleared the way for wild oats , so that until the ( very expensive ) sprays had been developed to cope with them , a trip through the eastern counties in midsummer could create the strong impression that oats had made a spectacular comeback as a cereals crop . |
| 9 | Flavia Ormond is making her debut as a drawings dealer with an exhibition of Italian Old Master drawings c.1550–1800 at Douwes Fine Art Limited , from 1 to15 July . |
| 10 | As a doubles player he leaves even Boris Becker behind . |
| 11 | But they did not want to offend the public ; and , most important , they had billed the march as a civil-rights story . |
| 12 | Jason Ratcliffe , 22 , would surely have reached the 1,000 mark for the first time but for the early-season decision to spread Asif Din 's role as a limited-overs opener into championship cricket . |
| 13 | The communication unit might consist of a number of specialists such as a personnel expert in communications , a journalist , a technical specialist and a back up advisory group drawn from all levels in the organization , and perhaps supplemented by occasional outside consultants . |
| 14 | This is sometimes known as a personnel specification and is an essential part of pre-interview preparation . |
| 15 | Might the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) want more money for Derbyshire so that it can employ more people such as his brother , who is employed as a personnel liaison officer for Toyota , his sister-in-law , who is employed in the county publicity department — — and such as another sister-in-law , who is employed in the education department ? |
| 16 | These are fairly generalised packages and a lot of work has been done in personnel on enhancing ADI in particular to make it more attractive as a Personnel Information System . |
| 17 | As a personnel manager in a Bradford mill put it ‘ Asian ladies are so well behaved . |
| 18 | As as a personnel manager once said to me , Reference are only worth the amount of work |
| 19 | Its commitment to standards will also be reflected the various impending ISO 9000 approvals planned for this year — as a multilayer and plated through hole board supplier in May ; as a single-sided board supplier in October ; and as a services operation , in September . |
| 20 | It was built in 1829–30 , but already by 1844 had been relegated to use as a goods station as railway development speeded ahead . |
| 21 | The earliest purpose-built station , Manchester Liverpool Road , closed to passengers in 1844 , continued as a goods station until 1975 . |
| 22 | But it remained in service as a goods station . |
| 23 | Birmingham 's Curzon Street , with its Ionic portico , the Midlands ' equivalent of the triumphal arch at Euston , was replaced as passenger terminal in 1854 by New Street Station but continued as a goods station . |
| 24 | This is defined as a goods vehicle which does not form part of a vehicle combination and has a relevant plated weight not exceeding 3500kg , or ( not having a plated weight ) has an unladen weight not exceeding 1525kg . |
| 25 | Star is what is known as a systems house . |
| 26 | In November 1991 , Bull set up Integris as a systems integration subsidiary in Billerica , Massachusetts , and half of Integris 's 120-strong staff works on ImageWorks . |
| 27 | Yet in casual conversation with the wife of a working colleague , Jean discovers that-Peter is just the same at the computer business where he now works as a systems manager . |
| 28 | It has little that 's revolutionary in terms of innovative spreadsheet design , and working with multiple worksheets could be made easier , but as a Windows spreadsheet , Excel excels . |
| 29 | Finally , BW-Server can be used as a Windows Server , so that when the software is run under Windows , the workstation can be used as a Network File System server while still performing other MS-DOS and Windows tasks . |
| 30 | It is taking SVR4.2 and putting it on top of Windows 3. x as a Windows application . |