Example sentences of "time [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sergeant 's parting shot was , ‘ I suppose you 'll be in the desert in a few weeks ’ time disguised as a Bedouin . ’ |
| 2 | Now we start to look at the same stitch types again , but this time used as a double bed knitting techniques . |
| 3 | Taylor makes five changes from Oslo , foremost among them yet another chance for his favourite Barnes , this time used as a front-line partner for QPR 's Ferdinand . |
| 4 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 5 | Reaction time increases as a function of the amount of information required to be processed in the brain . |
| 6 | He opened a yard to receive consignments of iron ore , which he had arranged through an agent in Sweden , and contacts from his time employed as a salesman were invaluable in developing his trade . |
| 7 | These Articles , confirmed by Acts of the Scottish and English Parliament ( Union with England Act 1706 ; Union with Scotland Act 1706 ) , were to ‘ be held and observed in all time coming as a Fundamental and Essential Condition ’ of union . |
| 8 | So that the training is not unduly prolonged the deans suggest that the undergraduate course could be shortened to compensate for the extra time spent as a house officer . |
| 9 | From this darkly humorous curtain-raiser , Scorsese steps back in time to Henry 's adolescence and time spent as a local don 's errand boy . |
| 10 | From this darkly humorous curtain-raiser , Scorsese steps back in time to Henry 's adolescence and time spent as a local don 's errand boy . |
| 11 | After some time spent as a trainee , she had become an authorised dealer on the male-dominated floor of the Ring , specialising in the fast and furious world of copper futures . |
| 12 | You certainly wo n't have time to practise as a vet down here . |
| 13 | to develop a microcomputer-based information retrieval system for use in secondary schools that will demonstrate realistically the basic principles of information storage and retrieval and at the same time serve as a practical system which can be used in the classroom to locate teaching and research materials ; |
| 14 | ‘ All officials , without exception elected and subject to recall at any time , their salaries reduced to working men 's wages — these simple and self-evident democratic measures , which , completely uniting the interests of the workers and the majority of peasants , at the same time serve as a bridge leading from capitalism to socialism ’ ( pp. 38–9 ) . |
| 15 | Tony applauded loudly with the rest and the applause continued until the young man once more strolled on stage , this time dressed as a policeman . |
| 16 | The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first . |
| 17 | It is striking , in fact , how much the latter idea seemed at the time to dominate as a first priority . |