Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an extraordinary development in an extraordinary saga and striker Gary Bull said : ‘ This has taken us all by surprise , although nothing comes as a shock at Barnet anymore . |
| 2 | Even earlier , as a diplomat in Beijing and at the United Nations in New York in the 1950s , then as a high-flyer at the elbow of two heads of the Foreign Office , he was marked for big things . |
| 3 | It is still used as a sign at one of the two public houses , the Roos Arms . |
| 4 | Richard Cunningham , a botanist who had been trained at Kew by William Townsend Aiton , elder brother of John Townsend Aiton ( who had trained Gould as a gardener at Windsor Castle ) had been murdered by Aborigines only a short time before Gould 's departure while collecting on an expedition along the Murray River . |
| 5 | Sybase says it plans to run Gain as a subsidiary at its existing base . |
| 6 | ‘ A gey driech day , ’ he thought as he adjusted the grey woollen scarf tied as a muffler at his throat and pulled down his large , cloth cap against the wind . |
| 7 | Coenred , son of Wulfhere , was a man of at least 30 years of age , possibly older , who abdicated five years later in 709 to live as a monk at Rome ( HE V , 19 , 24 ) and who was succeeded by Aethelred 's son , Ceolred . |
| 8 | Accordingly in my judgment it is not correct to describe the document as a will at that stage nor can it be said in my judgment that by his signature Mr. Winterbone intended to give effect to the document as any kind of effective document . |
| 9 | With leases quite often running for terms of 25 years and with rent reviews multiplying " manageable " rents , an individual who is joined as a guarantor at the commencement of a lease could be made bankrupt several years after the original tenant has parted with the lease . |
| 10 | As a driver at Buntingford depot , he does it every working day . |
| 11 | On May 17 Chamlong denounced Suchinda as a dictator at a rally in Sanam Luang Square attended by an estimated 150,000 people . |
| 12 | " Psycho-anthropology " , a stepchild of anthropology and psychology , emerged as a sub-discipline at just about the same time that its purest source data — the least-contacted tribal peoples — were vanishing into extinction . |
| 13 | The earliest record of Thomas is of his admission as a commoner at Brasenose College , Oxford , on 1 March 1653 ; he matriculated on 2 April 1653 , and was admitted to the degree of BA on 13 October 1656 , created MA on 6 November 1661 , and admitted BD on 11 December 1669 . |
| 14 | Taffy spent the majority of his time at B U as a serviceman at Risden and Leicester branches , but had an eighteen month period during world war two assembling jet engines at Powerjets , Wexton His wife and he lives in Spencefield area of Leicester . |
| 15 | Instead I came to work as a layman at the diocesan office . ’ |
| 16 | To make this silver anniversary picture , you could either press the flowers used to celebrate the day itself or you could press a selection of flowers beforehand and give the finished picture as a present at the time of the anniversary . |
| 17 | He also refilled air-bottles for scuba divers , ran sports-fishing excursions and , despite his slow left knee , was a good enough tennis player to have been hired as a coach at some of the Lucaya hotels , though the Maggot 's career as a tennis coach had been somewhat jeopardised by his insistence on helping only the prettier guests to improve their game . |
| 18 | He moved to Swansea for £160,000 before finishing his career as a coach at Sunderland . |
| 19 | ‘ I detect , in the current composition of the Scottish Office team , a maturity of judgment that will take account of Scotland 's special position , ’ says Harper , in what could be read as a dig at the departed Michael Forsyth . |
| 20 | Their planting of small bombs , so that they can monitor security procedures , is followed by police and Army blundering , which was intended by Winner as a dig at Services mentality . |
| 21 | Historians usually refer to him as a Monmouthshire man ; his family connections and his early employment as a schoolteacher at Talgarth suggest that he could have been brought up in Breconshire , where , in 1737 , he was converted by Howel Harris [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | The wife used to work as a domestic at his house . |
| 23 | ( Goodman , 1965 , p. 17 , p. 23 , cf. p. 14 ; Ayer , 1972 , pp. 120 f. , cf. p 118 ; Lewis , 1973 , p. 1 ; Mackie , 1973 , p. 64 ) As a look at the philosophy of language and its analyses of " meaning " or its uses of " semantics " quickly shows , much more would need to be done to give us a well-defined problem , but let us not linger . |
| 24 | There are many designs of trap as a look at any manufacturer 's catalogue will show . |
| 25 | This new exhibition brought John Piper 's work to his home county just this month … but what began as a look at a private collection has now become a timely retrospective . |
| 26 | This new exhibition brought John Piper 's work to his home county just this month … but what began as a look at a private collection has now become a timely retrospective . |
| 27 | It turned up a year later , all rewritten but basically identical , as a PhD at San Diego . |
| 28 | They are not necessarily regarded as a nuisance at law however and may not be actionable under that branch of the common law known as the tort of nuisance . |
| 29 | Travers , however , continued as a lecturer at the Temple after Hooker became Master , so that ‘ the forenoon sermon spoke Canterbury , and the afternoon Geneva ’ . |
| 30 | She went to Rome in 1966 , after spending 12 months as a lecturer at Rochdale College of Art . |