Example sentences of "in [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had gone to Moscow in 1943 as correspondent for the Observer and the Yorkshire Post , and from this experience wrote Soviet Ballet ( 1945 ) , which helped to introduce contemporary Russian dancing to the British public . |
| 2 | After 40 years ' service with the Wedgwood Group , Sir Arthur retired in 1986 as chairman and managing director , a post he held for nearly 20 years . |
| 3 | With J&J money up-front , T&L 's research budget rose from £175,000 in 1977 to £2.5 million in 1980 as sucralose proceeded . |
| 4 | It begins in 1933 as physicist Leo Szilard ( Michael Tucker ) escapes Berlin just before the Nazis seal off the city . |
| 5 | Platelet activating factor , first described in 1972 as platelet activating factor has been identified as 1–0-alyl-2–0-acetyl- sn -glycero-3-phosphocholine . |
| 6 | This type of revision , arising via a matching exercise , will be a feature of National Certificate in future as Lead Bodies continue to generate standards . |
| 7 | In Flanders , an area in which French and English interests clashed over issues which were strategic , economic and legal , Edward I intervened in 1294 as king of England in defence of the count , Guy , then in dispute with Philip IV of France . |
| 8 | Robert Passelewe was a Household clerk who after 1228 had been attached to the Poitevin party , shared in their downfall in 1234 , and was restored to favour in 1236 ; his appointment in 1246 as justice of the Forests south of Trent therefore brings the administrative history of the forest into line with that of the Household and the great Departments of State . |
| 9 | But for one zany week in March , the place sheds its stay-at-home Cinderella rags , paints its face and gets itself up in motley as Clown Town . |
| 10 | The rulers of Thessaly , then , resembled the Macedonians in considered as Greek was racially no worse than Macedon 's ; Simonides had performed there before Pindar , and in 460 Thessaly was to produce an Olympic victor called Agias . |
| 11 | Clifford retired in 1975 as branch administrative officer at Southampton Branch , and his hobbies in retirement have included the composition of poems and aphorisms . |
| 12 | Later on , Bauthumley became a minor corporation official at Leicester , in 1658 as serjeant-at-mace , and in 1667 as library keeper . |
| 13 | Charles Edwin Bessey ( 18451915 ) came to Lincoln , Nebraska , in 1884 as professor of botany at the state university and state botanist . |
| 14 | His appointment in 1650 as secretary to the committee for examinations of the republican council of state brought him to London , where he and Thomas Scott [ q.v. ] headed the intelligence operation that skilfully countered Royalist conspiracy . |
| 15 | Henry Robb had arrived in Leith in 1913 as yard manager for Ramage & Ferguson but in 1918 decided to branch out on his own as a ship repairer . |
| 16 | He joined Wimpey in 1981 as development accountant for the accounting systems project team in Hammersmith . |
| 17 | Doc Martens were notorious in 1970s as bovver boots … part of the uniform loved by skinheads … and later punks . |
| 18 | Well , its a busy time for her dad as well , what with those extra services — and a lamentable feature of this day and age is the amount of toerags that roll in bold as brass to the Watchnight Service reeking of drink . |
| 19 | Mr Medley jointed WWF in 1978 as Director from Glaxo Laboratories India Ltd where he was Managing Director . |
| 20 | Creevey was returned to Parliament in 1820 as MP for Appleby , through his friend Brougham 's good offices with Sackville Tufton , ninth Earl of Thanet [ q.v. ] , holding this seat until 1826 . |
| 21 | The appointment of John Moore in 1987 as Secretary of State at the DHSS was seen by some as a signal that the welfare programme would receive a dose of Thatcherism . |
| 22 | joined the Company in 1970 as lab technician at Ipswich and has experience of many different departments at a variety of locations . |
| 23 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 24 | He is often concerned with the structure of social relationships , the principles underlying organizations and the manifestation of social institutions in general as evidence at a particular time , rather than being concerned with the flow of events which attracts the historian . |
| 25 | There are several fascinating castles and abbeys in the vicinity including : Richmond Castle , 6 miles away , which was built in 107– as protection against the Saxons , and Bolton Castle , 12 miles away , where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned , and the ruins of the once magnificent Abbeys of Easby , Jervaulx and Coverham . |
| 26 | William Wegman usually appears in books on the art of the last two decades in his role as a pioneer Conceptual artist — and in particular as author of a piece called " Family Combinations " ( 1972 ) . |
| 27 | Its 13 main business lines , each large enough to be a Fortune-500 company , have about as much in common as ice cream and cement . |
| 28 | Further recognition followed for Maitland with appointment in 1919 as CMG , and the award of the AFC ( 1919 ) and the United States DSM ( 1917 ) . |
| 29 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 30 | No mention was made in the 1956 Defence White Paper of the possibility of ending National Service , but within the War Office a committee was set up under General Sir Richard Hull ( later to become Field Marshal , succeeding Mountbatten in 1965 as Chief of Defence Staff ) to examine the size of regular Army that would be needed , and could be recruited , if National Service was abolished . |