Example sentences of "as a [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'm willing to act as a spokesman if you feel one is needed . ’ |
| 2 | The realization came as a shock and she pressed her clenched fist to her heart as if to pacify it . |
| 3 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |
| 4 | This only comes as a shock if we insist on seeing Theo in terms of sainthood . |
| 5 | The announcement came as a shock because they and other political observers had expected Mr Ben Ali to announce moves towards liberalisation in a speech he gave yesterday marking the second anniversary of his coming to power . |
| 6 | It came as a shock as I had visited Jack two weeks earlier , having travelled down to Shergold Guitars in Romford to collect my Burns Marvin after Jack had refurbished it for me . |
| 7 | Any touch of white on their black coats might be taken as a sign that they were not , after all , cats consecrated to the Devil . |
| 8 | Some companies feel that involving a factor results in their losing contact with their customers while others fear that their customers will take the appointment of a factor as a sign that they are in difficulties . |
| 9 | On the night of their escape , Moses had commanded the Jews to sacrifice a lamb and smear the blood on the doorposts of their homes as a sign that they were to be ‘ passed over ’ by the Angel of Death , who was to bring death to the first born of every Egyptian family . |
| 10 | Maybe , Liz reflects ( for this is what she contemplates , through the oval mirror ) , maybe this is why they decided to have such a party , this year , at the end of this decade : as a sign that they had weathered so much , and were now entering a new phase ? |
| 11 | She rubbed herself against the base of a tree as a sign that she , too , had passed that way . |
| 12 | Eva took it as a sign that she was going to get better . |
| 13 | I stamped my feet on the cobbles as a sign that I was freezing . |
| 14 | Indeed , the fact that he had apparently used an editor from a Manchester newspaper for some of his purposes was latched onto and quoted as a sign that he was ‘ suspect ’ and ‘ disloyal ’ . |
| 15 | Eliot once muttered when they were left alone together , which Sherek took as a sign that he was uneasy in his company — but , over the next ten years and three dramas , the partnership proved a fruitful one . |
| 16 | This latest gesture by Fujimori was interpreted by informed observers as a sign that he was succumbing to mounting pressures , especially in the wake of the April 21 resignations of Roberto MacLean , ambassador to the USA , and of his internationally respected Economy and Finance Minister Carlos Boloña Bohr . |
| 17 | To a point at least , you can take each moment of inner soul searching as a sign that you are winning . |
| 18 | Holdaway ( 1983 : 72 ) noted how lawyers were seen by Hilton 's police as a threat because they unmask police practice , and , along with doctors and social workers , they were considered ‘ challengers ’ . |
| 19 | He 's learned a lot of skills and hopes to work as a gardener when he 's released . |
| 20 | Well I work as a psychotherapist and it seems to me that for some people change is impossible and when that is the case then its my job to help them to come to terms with who they are and what they are and how there going to remain , but the other side of it is helping people to change and I have to say usually its to loose weight , that 's the biggest reason people want to change . |
| 21 | She continued to work as a washerwoman until she was sixty-three , when she moved to Alton , Hampshire , to take care of a farmhouse . |
| 22 | He was registered as ‘ plebeian ’ when matriculated at Magdalen Hall , Oxford , in 1651 , and as a sizar when he migrated to Catharine Hall , Cambridge , in 1654 . |
| 23 | I came as a foreigner and I 'm told that Suffolk people were stand-offish , difficult to get to know and you 'd be a foreigner for years . |
| 24 | He always used to speak so bitterly about his experiences as a monk that it seemed bizarre to think of him working alongside them at Hurstdown . |
| 25 | You think of yourself as a realist but you 're really full of this romantic bullshit about the moon . |
| 26 | A small seat , which also serves as a kneeler when it is turned upside down , is a practical item which can be carried in one hand . |
| 27 | He had been equally conscientious as a councillor when I worked with him and he was a fine and scrupulous justice of the peace . |
| 28 | And sadly , Olympic rowers are n't the only ones feeling the pinch … on the eve of a new international rugby season Gloucester 's World Cup hero Mike Teague is seeking compensation from the sport 's governing body Iron man Mike claims the shoulder injury he suffered while playing for England has stopped him from working as a builder and he 's lost between three and five thousand pounds in earnings . |
| 29 | In general , apprenticed originally as a silversmith as he was , Benjamin would always return to this professional description when all else failed . |
| 30 | It would not be consistent with the obligation for a national court to be subject to a precondition such as a requirement that it may not look behind the text of a national implementing measure unless it is first found to be ambiguous . |