Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We usually carried three or four experienced deck and engineer cutter officers who doubled up as instructors . |
| 2 | I 'm less interested in Araeen 's assertions about modernism than in the following questions : what are the differences between the older artists who came here as immigrants and the young artists who were born in Britain ? |
| 3 | The first women doctors and lawyers , the women artists and writers , the politicians and trades unionists , the women who came out as lesbians ; and before them the witches and the suffragettes : the paths we walk so freely are paths they laid down for us . |
| 4 | The downsizing cost it Jim Katzman , the big-time venture capitalist who came in as president back in March to run the joint ( UX No 377 ) . |
| 5 | This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with . |
| 6 | The former mandatory distinction , between brokers , who acted only as agents for their clients , and jobbers who acted only as market-making principals , has disappeared ; as a result of ‘ Big Bang ’ , firms may now act as either , so long as they disclose to the client whether they are acting as agents or principals . |
| 7 | Ian McGeechan , who stepped down as Scotland 's coach this month , had already been appointed as Lions ' coach against the All-Blacks . |
| 8 | Ian McGeechan , who stepped down as Scotland 's coach this month , had already been appointed as Lions ' coach against the All-Blacks . |
| 9 | The CNAA machinery in the late 1960s and 1970s was powered substantially by its university membership , with major inputs from its ‘ industrial ’ members , including its first Chairman , Lord Kings Norton , and Michael ( later Sir Michael ) Clapham , who took over as Chairman in 1971 . |
| 10 | TONY Greener , who took over as chairman of Guinness last year , has presided over the first fall in its annual profits for more than a decade , reflecting the effects of the recession on sales and margins and the high marketing spending necessary to support the group 's premium brands . |
| 11 | They had distinct personalities : princesses forced to disguise themselves as scullery maids or kidnapped into slavery ; heroines who dressed up as boys and lived in camps full of men , performing feats of daring beyond description until discovered in bed or in the bath by the hero and proclaimed as beautiful . |
| 12 | The farmers listened to him , and he was no great admirer of Edward Heath , who replaced Home as leader of the Conservatives in the summer of 1965 . |
| 13 | Requirements for aircraft had to be dealt with by the Air Officer Commanding Western Desert , and all David Stirling 's communications had to be routed via the LRDG , who ended up as piggy in the middle . |
| 14 | DENNIS SILK , a three-time Cambridge Blue who also played for Somerset , was names as MCC 's next president at the club 's AGM at Lord 's on May 6 , Silk , 60 , who retired recently as Warden of Radley College , takes over from Michael Melluish on Oct 1 , and will be the first to spend two years in office , under anew rule passed at the AGM . |
| 15 | If we , the public , see ‘ profession ’ as more trustworthy than ‘ trade ’ , we help to institutionalise trust-worthiness as part of the licence we accord to those who set up as experts . |
| 16 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 17 | The widely tipped favourite is Mr Peter Brooke , who stood down as Northern Ireland Secretary in the post-election Cabinet reshuffle . |