Example sentences of "as a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a fourteen-year-old she had made her debut in a particularly sophisticated team , and went on to appear on Broadway . |
| 2 | I told her she was telling porkies because I knew for sure that God put it there as a sign he was never going to drown us all again or otherwise wreck the planet . |
| 3 | It will use local natural gas as a feedstock which it will use for the production of syn-gas , methanol and then petrol . |
| 4 | There are times when as a photographer it is possible to show the truth , to show images which convey the reality of this world . |
| 5 | As a photographer you know the tricks , the exposures , the way to use light . |
| 6 | As a tutor I teach my students to steer well clear of what I call the 4 oz syndrome , i.e. the system we were all taught years ago . |
| 7 | On your appointment or re-appointment as a tutor you will receive at the beginning of the session : — |
| 8 | You may cut a fine figure — ’ with an approving glance cast up and down his great-nephew 's fashionably tight-fitting blue coat over buckskins and top-boots ‘ — but an expensive young profligate is what you are , Dacre , and if this inheritance do n't come as a windfall you may call me a dunderhead ! ’ |
| 9 | As a runner you 'll be familiar with the work of St. John Ambulance volunteers . |
| 10 | As a runner you 'll be familiar with the work of St. John Ambulance volunteers . |
| 11 | Viewers latched on to , and sympathized with , a vulnerable character who was unable to keep a job — as a security guard he lost his dog and as a fireman he kept missing the fire engine — and roared with laughter as his world collapsed around him . |
| 12 | It is one of the humbling lessons we learn from living with companion animals , namely that we are in so many ways their inferiors , even though as a species we have come to dominate the planet . |
| 13 | As a resort it has changed though , having passed out of the possession of the royals and their followers and into that principally of the world 's surfers , who come to this coast for technical reasons , because it has by all accounts the best waves in Europe on which to perch for the ride into town . |
| 14 | When she told me how she came to be a refugee , she paused reflectively before each statement , conscious that as a foreigner I might not know the history of Palestine before 1948 . |
| 15 | As a foreigner she had great difficulty getting admitted there as an apprentice , but eventually succeeded with assistance from the Duke of Orleans . |
| 16 | His removal to the USA was a violation of Panamanian law prohibiting the extradition of its nationals , and , as a foreigner who had committed his alleged crimes outside the USA , the US claim to jurisdiction to try Noriega was far from certain , although some legal experts suggested that sufficient precedents existed to circumvent any such defence . |
| 17 | As a pastor he was diligent and although iconoclastic , he defended the clergy against outside attack . |
| 18 | erm unfortunately , it might sound extremely erm severe , but I can think of a number of people I 've met in my experience as a pastor who really and frankly could not help themselves and need to be treated almost like children again and made to receive help , and there are quite number of those sort of characters , unfortunately , on the streets of Oxford . |
| 19 | The tapes also allow a ‘ transcending of the commodity relations of pornography ’ , especially when viewers join the tape network as a performer themselves . |
| 20 | Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style . |
| 21 | 'You look fresh as a daisy which is more than can be said for the rest of us. ’ said John . |
| 22 | The novel then began to stake its claim as a genre which could give insight into the human psyche that no news broadcast or film ever could . |
| 23 | The popularity of the drama as a genre which participated in English or , more accurately , within London life of the period in ways other than as literary texts has become critically more significant during the past decade with the increased emphasis on literature 's cultural contexts . |
| 24 | Irrespective of the circumstances of their composition , the Anglo-Norman fabliaux were transmitted , eventually , and preserved for posterity because the fabliau was recognized as a genre which had its place in the full range of new and recent vernacular literary production in England . |
| 25 | Given that the image already exists on paper , a scanner can capture it as a bitmap which can then be manipulated by a suitable graphics package . |
| 26 | He says as a champion I must perform well and give the public value for money . |
| 27 | Sadly Mr 's proposal fell on a technicality , but I think he put his finger on something which I felt the assembly was , was responding to , that we are not finished with this issue and although it fell on a technicality about money , perhaps without making any addendums and motions we might er refuse this addendum and keep our minds on the baptism issue and hope that the Board of Practice and Procedure and the panel on doctrine will pick up the substance and the , the essence of what Mr was asking for and pursue this matter until as a church we can get it sorted out to the satisfaction of all the groups within the church . |
| 28 | Can I say that need holy communion as a group thing in a way of our communion and as a church we are going to be Roman Catholic . |
| 29 | We have focus we have a direction we maintain the fiscal control we are aware of what we 're doing as a church we have the the members commitment indeed , we have their involvement in what we want to do . |
| 30 | In addition , the person who sent me wants the young man to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects to inherit a fortune . ’ |