Example sentences of "[was/were] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anything , you 're more intriguing as a woman than you were as a girl . |
| 2 | He could ask the magistrates to infer that the defendants were actually aware of the presence of bystanders , and that they were as a corollary aware that their conduct was disorderly . |
| 3 | Support staff , who were in a majority , were as a consequence involved in productive and creative dialogue with teachers and governors . |
| 4 | His earliest sporting interests were as a co-founder of the Worcester Rugby Football Club and as a penny-farthing cyclist in 1876 . |
| 5 | Eliza 's priorities were as a mother , and if Gould had some sympathy with this , it gave them little ground for compromise . |
| 6 | Iorwerth had taught him to ride , Morgan had been his idol in boyhood by reason of his prowess at wrestling , Meurig , unfree but irrepressible , could never be kept out of any fight though his only real duties with the army were as a baggage-servant . |
| 7 | Though they were as a rule sparing in the use of force , this was for reasons which seem not to have included sympathy with civil disobedience . |
| 8 | If old favourites were as a rule long lived , their status tended to be depressed as new substances advanced in esteem . |
| 9 | Clerks had particular privileges in society and were as a group apart . |
| 10 | Yet in giving the judgment of the Divisional Court , Schiemann J. contrived to avoid the conclusion that the by-laws were as a result void and the convictions made under them of no effect . |
| 11 | Karavas were as a result disproportionately represented in the wealthy and English-educated élite . |
| 12 | Duke of Gloucester 's run on the first mid-week North Wales Coast Express was hit by a number of problems none of which were as a result of problems with the locomotive . |
| 13 | Some of the delays with Searcher were as a result of their thoroughness and quality control , others occurred as a result of last minute changes occasioned by our own requirements . |
| 14 | When further investigation develops then some of these individuals will admit that their reasons for transfer or leaving were as a result of harassment . |
| 15 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 16 | But there are problems even with this more sophisticated test , because it could be argued that to examine those who were as a matter of fact interested in science is to skew the sample . |
| 17 | Curiously , of John 's first hundred Palace appearances , almost half were as a substitute and , although he demonstrated great potential , he never really established himself as a regular member of our side until the autumn of 1990 . |
| 18 | But it was as a cotton spinner , not a merchant , that Mayall excelled and by 1870 he controlled approximately 319,000 spindles , with c .1,350 hands . |
| 19 | The main honest job I had during my teens was as a drummer for a piano player who worked various bars and dance halls around the Zona Negra . |
| 20 | It is also an image which tells us that , it Gide 's contribution to the liberation of the subjugated was as a writer , it is also true that he exemplified the writer 's inevitably exploitative relation to the same , and that this exploitation persists as an aesthetic mode long after the blindness or impossibility of desire was acknowledged . |
| 21 | However , it was as a goalscorer that Mel gained an undisputed niche in Palace 's history as the scorer of our first-ever goal in Division One , when his fine , dipping header put us into the lead and on the way to a 2–2 draw with Manchester United on the opening day of season 1969–70 . |
| 22 | However unattractive King James was as a man and a monarch , he did leave a few noble monuments to grace his reign . |
| 23 | He belonged as much ( all his days ) where he was as a man on the dark side of the moon . |
| 24 | I was as a man who was pulling down his house upon the head of his wife and children , yet thought I , I must do it , I must do it . ’ |
| 25 | The only occasion that the present writer met him was as a member of a deputation to appeal for troop protection for Protestant homes that were being stoned and shot into by the Provisional IRA . |
| 26 | His first musical experience was as a member of a school tin whistle band ( ‘ no drums , no guitars , nothin' , just melody , melody , melody ’ ) ; his first professional job was as singer with an Irish pop showband called The Arrows and his first solo album was produced by controversial avant-garde composer Philip Glass . |
| 27 | Petty 's next appearance was as a member of the Leveller team in its renewed negotiations with the grandees and their allies in November–December 1648 . |
| 28 | In particular the chaos of the media ; where Front 242's use of TV images of terrorism and catastrophe was as a backdrop to their own survivalist strength , with Butthole Surfers it 's more the case , as David Stubbs said , that they 've fallen foul of the media overload , are carried by a momentum that is not their own . |
| 29 | The rings were used in a variety of ways : some were worn on the arm or wrist ; others appear to be the frames for the mouths of pouches which are often found to contain small metal items ; a third use was as a girdle hanger . |
| 30 | ‘ It was as a cook that I was sailing with Clive . ’ |