Example sentences of "[noun sg] and as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unit Trusts are becoming an increasingly popular form of investment and as a High Interest Cheque Account holder you are entitled to a 1% bonus allocation when you make a lump sum purchase of £500 or more of Midland Unit Trusts . |
| 2 | His earliest sporting interests were as a co-founder of the Worcester Rugby Football Club and as a penny-farthing cyclist in 1876 . |
| 3 | Lakatos 's account was presented first in this book because it is best seen as a culmination of the Popperian programme and as a direct response to and an attempt to improve on the limitations of Popperian falsificationism . |
| 4 | This first scene establishes Iago as a hypocrite and as a rapacious egoist , the same combination that we observed in Macbeth , the one state creating and supporting the other . |
| 5 | Some of what I have to say does in fact apply to literature generally , but much of it is specific to the novel , the literary form in which I am most interested , both as a literary critic and as a practising writer . |
| 6 | Motion pictures were to develop into the great mass entertainment of the twentieth century but they had first been shown in the cities of the late nineteenth century and both as an industry and as a social activity they were never to lose characteristics that had been determined at their birth . |
| 7 | The state is connected to civil society through aspects other than its role in administration and as a major employer , important as these are . |
| 8 | We lost a man whom I had seen come to Christ , who was very gifted in personal evangelism , whom I saw as vital to the work and as a personal friend . |
| 9 | As a copyright owner you have a legal right to prevent unauthorised copying of your work and as a practising artist you need to be aware of what you can and can not do with regard to using ‘ second-source ’ material as ideas for your own work . |
| 10 | The base Paradigm technology comes from software originally developed by Boeing for internal network management and as a strategic technology for the Computer Service Division 's commercial network business . |
| 11 | AS A regular reader of your ‘ Have A Rattle ’ column and as a long-standing Glentoran supporter , I feel I must take issue with your somewhat dismissive reply to ‘ Jockus Concernus . ’ |
| 12 | Historically , Karajan is a conductor of pivotal significance , steeped as a child and as a young man in music-making of the great Austro-German tradition , but the first great conductor to be reared in the twentieth century 's brave new technological age . |
| 13 | Most observers expect Barbara McDougall to be impressive at External Affairs , after her apprenticeship with the immigration portfolio and as a junior finance minister . |
| 14 | Hughes & Kettner 's new £269 Tubeman thingie is designed to function as an amp expander on stage , as a recording amp in the studio , as a floorpedal on stage , as a practice amp at home and as a fully-featured preamp just about anywhere . |
| 15 | The development of peripheral axons seems to rely on Schwann cells , particularly for the formation of the basal lamina and as a major source of trophic factors , which regulate neurite outgrowth and neuronal survival . |
| 16 | ‘ Eight acres is all the council needs — we 'd build the club and manage it both as pay and play and as a private club . |
| 17 | Simon 's burgeoning career at the Medical Office in the 1860s coincided with the consolidation of the status of the medical profession , both as a privileged domain of expertise and as a distinctive cultural grouping within the middle-class . |
| 18 | But 100 yards is the standard length of a long-net and as a general rule this length suffices . |
| 19 | The working hypothesis examined here was the proposition that NSEs would perform at least as well as standard entrants ( SEs ) In this part of the study the authors considered AEs both as part of the NSE category and as a separate group . |
| 20 | Warner 's only chance with Black Fury would have been if the serious critics had hailed it as a masterpiece and as a great breakthrough , but on this occasion the critics were all too aware of the stresses and strains that had been created by the processing of an authentic theme into a melodramatic format . |
| 21 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 22 | ‘ It is difficult to make the transition because the normal prerequisite of a finance director is that they must have had board level experience and as a financial controller reporting to a director it 's very difficult to get that . ’ |
| 23 | He was also the company 's standard bearer at the town 's annual common riding and as a former Master upholsterer he previously represented the Corporation of Hammermen in a similar capacity . |
| 24 | Baron of Buchlyvie was kept at Craigie Mains and as a three year old was exhibited as being owned by James Kilpatrick . |
| 25 | As time went on the comments became less encouraging and more accusing , so that at the age of forty-five , in my study , he told me how he felt a failure and as a Christian unable to understand God as a God of love . |
| 26 | I can recommend Houses and Buildings as an excellent instructional resource book to those already interested in this theme and as a tempting introduction to a new subject area to those who are not . |
| 27 | She is equally fascinated by the stone as a specimen and as a phenomenological object , but whereas those of us working in drama who might agree with the wisdom of this position tend to see ‘ personal engagement ’ with the world through dramatic action as a proper way of helping the child to know the world , Dorothy Heathcote tends to delay the phenomenological process by a deliberate depersonalising of objects . |
| 28 | Seymour Drescher 's work has recently sought to underline the significance of petitioning by comparison with its role in French antislavery and as a high proportion of all petitions to the British parliament in particular years . |
| 29 | The assembly , in which all parties receiving more than 5 per cent of the vote would have seats on a proportional basis , would thus act as both a constitution-making body and as a legislative assembly . |
| 30 | There they could easily obtain coal which was used as fuel and as a raw material , various salts from a mine below the works and from brine wells , and large amounts of water from the River Tees . |