Example sentences of "[noun] as a [noun sg] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In certain circumstances German officers , too , were allowed to duel and membership of a good duelling club as a student was to a large degree a sine qua non for promotion in the higher German civil service . |
| 2 | His own work as a composer was on a smaller scale . |
| 3 | Her three children , now 15 , eight and six , were handicap enough , but the fact that her last job as a bookkeeper was in 1983 was seen as a severe liability . |
| 4 | Our favourite place as a family was on the Church Hill , a pleasant area at the edge of The Heath . |
| 5 | My most pressing experience of Wigg as a tipster was on one of the rare occasions when I went to the Derby . |
| 6 | His last known employment as a surveyor was by the London Charterhouse , whose estates in Cambridgeshire and Wiltshire he surveyed from 1616 to 1618 . |