Example sentences of "[verb] as an " in BNC.
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1 | He may profess not to enjoy it , but Pitt has an instinctive understanding that playing up the teen idol image will help him get where he wants to go as an actor . |
2 | and I 'd like to go as an army chef or an army mechanic |
3 | And throughout it all the music , first heard as an eerie sketch inside the hero 's head , skeletally indistinct and bone china fragile . |
4 | This is heard as an anticipation of the next chord , resolving by scale step . |
5 | Perceptions may change — her body can feel as vast as a mountain , and her own breathing be heard as an urgent sound coming from a different person . |
6 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
7 | Mr Brandt , who was mayor of West Berlin 28 years ago when East Berlin put up the Wall and who stood next to Mr Kennedy during his famous speech , said the barbed wire and wall were ‘ against the flow of history ’ , but added that it should remain as an ‘ an historical monstrosity ’ . |
8 | It is often helpful to create several small files ( 5-10 entries maximum ) with varying layouts and indexing as an aid to discussion at the design stage . |
9 | As they crossed to the supermarket they had to wait as an assistant wearing a jacket over his uniform wheeled a long line of trolleys from a loading bay into the store . |
10 | It is recognised , however , that it may be appropriate to include as an element of the CPE programme , time spent on the development of interpersonal or management skills . |
11 | The neck joint is similar to Ibanez and Heartfield 's ‘ all access ’ variety which does away with the usual bulky metal plate and offers as an alternative four recessed bolts and a sloping , shaped heel , which really does feel good under the hand . |
12 | ‘ Business seemed like an attractive idea and I wanted to learn about finance first , ’ he offers as an explanation . |
13 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
14 | The design of a machine or device which is assigned as an aid for one person will not usually encounter the problems associated with elaborate design teams just described , but nevertheless some human factors sensitivity will help to provide a better product . |
15 | But the young Conservative member , whom Beatrice Webb thought the most brilliant man in the House of Commons , crossed the floor to sit as an independent in protest against the use of torture to interrogate Sinn Fein prisoners in 1920 . |
16 | It was from this base that Marian was invited in 1976 to apply to sit as an Assistant Recorder on the North-Eastern Circuit . |
17 | Bouchard , a close ally of Mulroney for over 30 years , also resigned from the ruling Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) in order to sit as an independent . |
18 | Lewis 's connection with Scotland in general ( he fought as an amateur during the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh ) and the city of Glasgow in particular may soon be strengthened beyond the use of a fax machine . |
19 | Even so , I am teetering on the brink of spending £300 to replace the turntable I foolishly ditched as an anachronism a few months ago . |
20 | The Bristol aircraft was eventually completed as an experimental airplane under the name Bristol Brabazon . |
21 | The decision has caused considerable controversy and been criticized as an excessive response to the problem , but Mayor Jean Baylaucq justified it on the grounds that the bears constituted a threat to animals and humans . |
22 | Between humdrum research and showpiece research , what the humanities scholarly community is really anxious to see is work which is both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
23 | However , of the studies I have mentioned it would be difficult to claim that more than a handful fulfilled the criteria I mentioned earlier : both ( a ) respected as an original scholarly contribution within its own discipline and ( b ) could clearly not have been done without a computer . |
24 | In 1924 Madame Neel was the first European woman to enter Lhasa , the capital city of Tibet , and she had to travel disguised as an ignorant and grimy old country woman . |
25 | Cunningly disguised as an electronic novelty record , ‘ Autobahn ’ is in reality a tribute to the German motorway system and the ordered freedom it brings . |
26 | The angel , disguised as an old man , went from door to door begging for food and drink . |
27 | A mushroom disguised as an onion bhaji with flaking batter was a mouthwatering morsel , but not really a dish in its own right , more an interlude before the chicken à la British Airways , both accompanied by more Hellmans relatives . |
28 | Léonie only half-belonged in it , growing up in England with a dead English hero for a father and a mother disguised as an English missis with English ways . |
29 | From the airline 's point of view , the gift ( disguised as an 8.8 per cent investment stake by BNP ) could therefore not have been more conveniently timed . |
30 | A little devil disguised as an elf . |