Example sentences of "was as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However unattractive King James was as a man and a monarch , he did leave a few noble monuments to grace his reign . |
| 6 | He belonged as much ( all his days ) where he was as a man on the dark side of the moon . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It was as a cook that I was sailing with Clive . ’ |
| 14 | fo for example , says , that he , about his first erm , experience , was as a field observer of baboons in er , Kenya or somewhere . |
| 15 | But it was as a planner of convenient houses that he particularly excelled . |
| 16 | But it was as a broadcaster that Ron Pickering will be best remembered . |
| 17 | His first job was as a cloth-cutter and sewing machinist in a factory . |
| 18 | It was as a bowler that he was chosen to play for England , making his début in 1924 , and thereafter winning 39 caps . |
| 19 | One of my first ever professional engagements was as a clown with a witches ' hat on over the top ! |
| 20 | Bolton may not have enjoyed outstanding success as an architect but he was greatly respected ; it was as a scholar that he excelled . |
| 21 | The major economic argument for the area was as a way of expanding the zone of multilateral trade in the short run , and as a source of ‘ highly beneficial trading and banking relations ’ . |
| 22 | If Britain had an interest in European co-operation it was as a way to withstand Soviet pressure and underpin British independence , not as a way to control Germany . |
| 23 | But George 's main contribution to the Palace was as a provider of chances from which our centre-forwards could score their goals . |
| 24 | My stint in the TA was as a conscript , and those of us who did our national service in the TA made many friendships that have lasted to this day . |
| 25 | The only way to do it was as a comic . |
| 26 | His first academic appointment was as a lecturer in law at Manchester University . |
| 27 | PHILIP CROOKALL , a geologist with LASMO North Sea , went back to school recently — but this time it was as a lecturer . |
| 28 | ‘ The basis we went in on was as a company which had a product to sell , not as a company which funds R&D . ’ |
| 29 | But their immediate occasion was as a response to the use that Sartre himself had made of Lévi-Strauss ' The Elementary Structures of kinship ( 1949 ) in the first Critique . |
| 30 | Attractive as this new programme was as a response to the requirements of " relevance " , and the need to fight off incursions by scientific and technological education , it remained none the less vulnerable on a number of counts . |