Example sentences of "[adv] as a [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles had been wounded in the fighting but had recovered and signed on as a regular at the end of the war . |
| 2 | At the moment , only as a dream at the back of his head , was the future , perhaps in a year or two ; Lear , with his Dinah as a stubborn , tactless Cordelia whom , nevertheless , France had loved . |
| 3 | I was privileged to be invited along as an observer at the latest meeting at which the question of the small company audit was discussed . |
| 4 | It is somewhat unrealistic to imagine people gnawing away at sugar cane or sugar beet , so as an example at the opposite extreme let us consider apples . |
| 5 | When Norman went to serve with the East Riding Yeomanry during the First World War , reaching the rank of captain , she worked from 7.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. as a VAD at the Red Cross Hospital in Richmond , travelling each day by pony and trap or bicycle , carrying a fresh egg from one of the Field farms . |
| 6 | If there was somebody dolled up as a copper at the Abbey , you 've got a conspiracy , and it 's only if there was a conspiracy that the Secret Service is really interested , because that means there 's at least one bod floating loose who presumably still wants to kill the President . |
| 7 | We are now just as determined to move upwards as a university at the forefront of high quality research , contributing to knowledge and understanding relevant to the needs of society . |
| 8 | Petrashevskii , the son of a St Petersburg doctor , had been eccentric even as a teenager at the Tsarskoe Selo lycée . |
| 9 | To give an example , incest may exist simply as a prohibition at the level of the formal system but at the practical level , breaches of the prohibition are explained , joked about or criticized . |
| 10 | Beth works part-time as a physiotherapist at the local hospital and is extremely fit . |
| 11 | 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 . |