Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's spent 30 years working as a teacher , but always wanted to earn a living as a painter . |
| 2 | Of these 500 , we 'll pick out six readers to act as the stars of the project . |
| 3 | Former BDO Binder Hamlyn national managing partner Chris Swinson has finally decided to settle down after six months acting as a freelance trouble shooter and litigation expert . |
| 4 | The proposals of the six schools selected as the focus for our evaluation are representative of the range of proposals reviewed , and the evaluators are satisfied that the picture which emerges from this sample is true to the general flavour and direction of the Major Project as a whole . |
| 5 | This provided not only an overview of the stated intentions of Major Project schools but also some kind of check that the six schools chosen as the focus for our study were in these terms not atypical . |
| 6 | DSD not only wanted her , they wanted her enough to offer her six weeks working as an apprentice at Chanel , in Paris . |
| 7 | Barr Top Lock Wharf lies beyond the A34 bridge and the first 7 locks come as a 700m flight to be portaged together , on the way passing the Birmingham Alexander Stadium set in Perry Park with artificial football pitch , running track and full athletics facilities in a large , modern site . |
| 8 | YOUNG accountants at top City firms , recruited in the late 1980s boom when one in 10 graduates trained as an accountant , are being encouraged to take unpaid leave or extended holidays because the recession has left them with no work to do . |
| 9 | Results showed that the amount of time subjects spent reading each group of three words varied as a function of clause and sentence boundaries . |
| 10 | After three years working as a photographer 's assistant , Jason decided to get out of the ‘ rat race ’ and joined ecologically-minded art group Reactivart . |
| 11 | Each of the three approaches operates as a kind of intellectual club : each has its own journals , meetings , and leaders . |
| 12 | In Numbers the plan of the seventy elders arises as a response to a bitterness in Moses that matches the anger of his God . |
| 13 | They suggest that the species could take up to 70 years to recover , and estimate that some 150,000 murres died as a result of the spill . |
| 14 | She says that Helen had to take 99 exams to qualify as an astronaut . |
| 15 | Second , nine steps to use as a guide when introducing parents to an intervention were detailed . |
| 16 | ‘ I have for nearly nine years served as a law officer for Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | Sir John reserved the right to become a partner at the end of the first three years term for a quarter share of all mines and ores , then opened , got , or sold , … or … at the end of six years also to commence as a partner for one quarter share … or … at the end of nine years to commence as a partner for the same … or … at the end of 12 years the same , and at 15 years ditto . |
| 18 | IBM Corp is to supply the Norwegian government 's Supercomputing Committee with two RS/6000 PowerServer 980s and 12 Model 580 workstations linked as a cluster : hosted by the University of Oslo , the installation kicks off a three-year joint venture project between IBM and Norway 's supercomputing centre . |
| 19 | The sub plot of Gloucester and his two sons acts as a parallel to the main and increases the effect of Lear 's family situation and experiences ; ‘ he childed as [ Lear ] fathered ’ . |
| 20 | A lease was granted for a period of five years in which the tenant agreed to pay the landlord a sum equivalent to two months rent as a security deposit . |
| 21 | So much so , that the cultural function of higher education was one of the four functions identified as the core of Robbins ' idea of higher education . |
| 22 | There used to be two varieties known as the Maroilles and Picardy in France . |
| 23 | For what 's is worth , as a motorist , I may tell you I 'm thirty years standing , and I explained to the people when I phoned your office up , I 've had thirty years standing as a driver , I check my oil , I check my water , I lost no compression , no water . |
| 24 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 25 | Shearer , who was transferred to Blackburn Rovers last season , told the court he was paid seven hundred pounds cash as a reward for winning three games in a row . |
| 26 | When his battalion moved south to take part in the battle of Loos , Sorley commanded an attack on two trenches known as the Hairpin , south of the Hohenzollern redoubt , and was killed by a sniper 13 October 1915 . |
| 27 | In group B , four patients died as a result of complications after hepatic transplantation ( one week to 18 months post transplantation ) , four others died of progressive hepatic failure while awaiting transplantation and two died from hepatic tumours . |
| 28 | Two names recur as a leitmotiv throughout Nizan 's critical writings : Lenin and Dostoievsky . |
| 29 | He had only a few hundred yards to go as the house he was planning to visit was also in the Vomero but he did not wish to arrive with perspiration on his forehead or dust on his shoes . |
| 30 | Instead of doing the usual reach-fall-reach , choose a point a few hundred metres upwind as a target to sail to , then you can concentrate solely on gybing as you work your way back downwind . |