Example sentences of "practised as [art] " in BNC.

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1 Ika , however , had a brilliant command of English , to which he was to add proficiency in several other languages during the years when he practised as a noted paediatrician in Paris .
2 On his return to Scotland , Garvine settled in Ayr where he practised as a doctor and , according to John Strawhorn 's History of Ayr , he was elected Provost of the town for a record 14 terms between 1724 and 1755 .
3 He trained and practised as a solicitor , was excessively conscientious , and always warned his clients , as he warned himself , that any ill-thought out actions could spell disaster of some unspecified kind .
4 Dr Tom Courtney was sentenced to just seven years for drugging and assaulting four young women at the London premises where he practised as a gynaecologist .
5 Courtney was sentenced to just seven years for drugging and assaulting four trusting young women at the Harley Street premises where he practised as a gynaecologist .
6 Rice is a perfectionist when it comes to his art , which he practised as a child in Mississippi by catching bricks thrown at him by his brothers , sometimes four at a time .
7 There he practised as a coal and mineral surveyor , particularly for the Duchy of Cornwall , during the few difficult years before his death .
8 , Samuel ( 1737–1807 ) , architect , was born 8 September 1737 at Blackbrook Farm , Weeford , Staffordshire , the third of the seven sons and nine children of Benjamin Wyatt , farmer and timber merchant of Weeford , who also practised as a builder and architect , and his wife Mary Wright .
9 From 1890 until his death he practised as a solicitor in Uckfield , East Sussex , where he held several public appointments , and established his own law firm in partnership with Ernest Hart in 1905 .
10 Called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1874 , he practised as a barrister on the Oxford circuit , and then in June 1880 became political secretary to Sir Charles Dilke [ q.v. ] , his father being so disappointed at his abandoning law that he was disinherited in favour of a younger brother .
11 D'Arcy practised as a solicitor in Australia , but in 1882 formed a syndicate to exploit a vein of gold that had been discovered close to Rockhampton .
12 Living at Greatham Hall , Jackson practised as a solicitor in Stockton-on-Tees .
13 He was called to the bar in 1843 and for most of the rest of his life he practised as a conveyancer .
14 He practised as a lawyer , and worked for Republican Senator John Danforth , before serving in 1981-82 as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Education under President Reagan .
15 ( i ) practised as a partner in a multi-national practice which held or received clients ' money ; or
16 , Alexander ( 1848–1920 ) , electrical engineer , was born 26 May 1848 at Barley Mill , Saltoun , East Lothian , the second son of John Muirhead , a farmer who also practised as an architect , and his wife Margaret Lauder .
17 For some thirty years Hickey practised as an attorney at the Supreme Court established in 1774 in the capital of the new British empire in India to administer English law to the inhabitants of Calcutta and to British subjects in Bengal generally .
18 The pair settled in Liverpool ; Bellingham practised as an insurance broker and his wife as a milliner .
19 Thereafter it appears that Haycock himself rather than his father was the main architect member of the firm , although , in partnership with his brother Robert , he continued to engage in building as well as architecture until c .1845 , after which he practised as an architect only .
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