Example sentences of "as a [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With leases quite often running for terms of 25 years and with rent reviews multiplying " manageable " rents , an individual who is joined as a guarantor at the commencement of a lease could be made bankrupt several years after the original tenant has parted with the lease . |
| 3 | Instead I came to work as a layman at the diocesan office . ’ |
| 4 | To make this silver anniversary picture , you could either press the flowers used to celebrate the day itself or you could press a selection of flowers beforehand and give the finished picture as a present at the time of the anniversary . |
| 5 | ‘ I detect , in the current composition of the Scottish Office team , a maturity of judgment that will take account of Scotland 's special position , ’ says Harper , in what could be read as a dig at the departed Michael Forsyth . |
| 6 | ( Goodman , 1965 , p. 17 , p. 23 , cf. p. 14 ; Ayer , 1972 , pp. 120 f. , cf. p 118 ; Lewis , 1973 , p. 1 ; Mackie , 1973 , p. 64 ) As a look at the philosophy of language and its analyses of " meaning " or its uses of " semantics " quickly shows , much more would need to be done to give us a well-defined problem , but let us not linger . |
| 7 | Travers , however , continued as a lecturer at the Temple after Hooker became Master , so that ‘ the forenoon sermon spoke Canterbury , and the afternoon Geneva ’ . |
| 8 | Odling 's prowess as a lecturer at the Royal Institution was maintained at Oxford where , however , he regarded it as ‘ not etiquette ’ to enter the chemical laboratory , having assistants to teach students and doing little experimental research himself . |
| 9 | Impressed by the Method masters ' formidable screen and stage presence , Allen left fringe theatre for New York , where he studied at the famous Strasberg Institute ( former pupils include Marilyn Monroe and Method 's godfather Brando ) and worked by night as a doorman at the fashionable club , Nell 's , ’ to pay the rent ’ . |
| 10 | Gilbert was eight years younger than Gould , but the two must have met earlier , for by 1828 , at the age of 16 , Gilbert was recruited by Gould to work as a taxidermist at the Zoological Society . |
| 11 | My mother worked as a seamstress at the Fabra and Coats factory . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | No fun and frivolity as a treat at the end of Part 2 I 'm afraid — it 's straight into Part 3 . |
| 14 | They would emphasise the involvement of trade unions at the place of work and the trade union movement as a whole at the national political level . |
| 15 | By the time of the 1524–25 lay subsidy over half the rural population of Cambridgeshire were already dependent upon wages to supplement earnings from their own holdings , a proportion that had not quite been reached in the country as a whole at the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | Before his detention , Tsetsen was working as a bookkeeper at the Banakshol Guesthouse in Lhasa . |
| 17 | Charles had been wounded in the fighting but had recovered and signed on as a regular at the end of the war . |
| 18 | Michael Ausserwinkler , 35 , replaced Harald Ettl as Minister for Health , Consumer Protection and Sport , while Brigitte Ederer , 36 , replaced Peter Jankowitsch as a Minister at the Chancellery . |
| 19 | As a child at the Legation I had met officers from the Sudan , Kenya and Somaliland , who were serving as Consuls in the border areas of Abyssinia . |
| 20 | Do you think you were conscious as a child at the difference between the way your brother was treated and the way yourself ? |
| 21 | What to do — of anything — about the Italian Connection is a problem that has long perplexed the top administrators : some see it as a cancer at the heart of rugby ; others as a storm in a teacup of no consequence to what they see as larger and more insidious threat to amateurism in England and the rest of the ‘ Big Eight ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When an offer came in 1963 for a play that was as different from a ‘ Carry On ’ as a lunch at the Grill and Cheese was from one at Le Caprice , he hesitated — and went on holiday . |
| 24 | Before having my first child four years ago , I worked for several years as a secretary at the head office of Sainsbury 's in Canterbury , and a further year as a personal assistant for Kent County Council . |
| 25 | By day , Vanessa works as a secretary at the Treasury Department in Hammersmith . |
| 26 | We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse . |
| 27 | After one year 's training there , where she was a model pupil , she worked as a sister at the Great Northern Hospital . |
| 28 | His contributions to Welsh language and culture were recognised when he was admitted as a Bard at the National Eisteddfod at Llanrwst in 1989 . |
| 29 | Pauline Edwards had worked as a nurse at the hospital since it opened seven years ago . |
| 30 | ‘ She got a job as a hostess at the Wisteria Club in Beak Street , Soho , to pay some of the rent she owed . |