Example sentences of "[noun] as [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molesworth 's chairmanship of the Select Committee on the Downing Street Public Offices Bill must have been one of his last acts as First Commissioner of Works , as on 21st July , 1855 , Palmerston promoted him to be Secretary of State for the Colonies , and appointed the President of the Board of Health , Sir Benjamin Hall ( 1802–67 ) , in his place . |
| 2 | His portrait was modified , in stages which can be dated by coins , from a depiction in the tradition of a Hellenistic king to one based on the canons valued in the Greek city-state , thereby reflecting his change from being one of the warlords in the civil wars after Caesar 's death to a new ‘ democratic ’ position after the settlement as first citizen , ‘ first among equals ’ ( fig. 17 ) . |
| 3 | The troubled Tykes meet at Headingley to decide on Sachin Tendulkar 's successor as next season 's overseas signing . |
| 4 | It was the Carling tournament at Royal Birkdale , a big event with a great deal of money as first prize . |
| 5 | STATES AS THIRD PARTIES TO TREATIES : FORMAL PRESCRIPTIONS |
| 6 | STATES AS THIRD PARTIES TO TREATIES : CLAIMS BY AND AGAINST THIRD PARTY STATES |
| 7 | Helen may do some painting and Elizabeth likes to work at drawing shapes and picking out words as first steps in reading and writing . |
| 8 | Boak , Head of Physics , was appointed to succeed Paine as Second Master . |
| 9 | Highlights include paintings by Gros , David , Gerard , Isabey , Regnault and Lejeune , the Emperor 's death mask taken on St Helena , and fifteen marble sculpture busts of the Bonaparte family centring on ‘ Napoleon as First Consul ’ by Canova . |
| 10 | Catherine , pictured here holding the trophy with great pride won gold and silver in the team events and a silver as second top lady in the individual masters competition . |
| 11 | Leafing through the pages of Wisden , one can discover that even on the so-called fast bowlers ' pitch at Lord 's , spinners were regularly brought to the bowling crease as first change : slow bowlers such as Titmus of Middlesex , Dooland of Notts , Tribe of Northants , Wardle of Yorkshire , Walsh of Leicestershire , Hollies of Warwickshire , Mortimore of Gloucestershire and Marlar of Sussex . |
| 12 | The crisis was temporarily defused at a meeting of the PS executive committee on March 20 , when delegates approved a general statement of intent , confirmed Mauroy as first secretary , and redistributed senior party posts to reflect the respective strengths of the various factions . |
| 13 | On Dec. 30 the Council elected Burhanuddin Rabbani as first President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan for a two-year term . |
| 14 | He scored an impressive 14 out of 15 correct answers and scooped gift vouchers as first prize . |
| 15 | In January 1964 the Leaders learnt that the Reverend William Buchanan ( President of the Church 1990–1991 ) was unable to accept an invitation to succeed the Reverend Val Silcock as second minister on the Circuit . |
| 16 | Poland sees Council as first step to membership . |
| 17 | Poland sees Council as first step to membership . |
| 18 | By 1984 , he had performed the same task for showbiz mainstreamers like Robert Goulet , Neil Sedaka and Tina Turner , and landed a job as second host on a short-lived talk show . |
| 19 | In the year ending March 1991 , 2,917 students in Scotland qualified for registration as first level nurses . |
| 20 | Nazarbayev resigned his post as first secretary and thus membership of the CPSU politburo on Aug. 22 . |
| 21 | In a survey of the top IT-based issues for managers in the UK , it was recently found that ‘ external data ’ ranked in importance as 23rd out of 23 issues of concern ! |
| 22 | This tendency to see alternatives as second best , it is argued , inhibits decisions . |
| 23 | It had been a melancholic day , although Winston Churchill had at last been called into the War Cabinet , gracing its inaugural meeting as First Lord of the Admiralty . |
| 24 | Following the 1948 Act efforts were made to foster a deprived child where possible and homes were regarded on the whole as second best . |
| 25 | Branson , in a moment of impulse , decided to do away with the convention of describing passengers as first class or economy ; instead baggage stickers were printed for ‘ Upper Class ’ , ‘ Middle Class ’ and ‘ Riff Raff ’ . |
| 26 | And tickets are to go on sale for an Easter draw with a huge Easter Egg as first prize . |
| 27 | Further research needs to be done before Van Gemert and colleagues can be confident in suggesting using pulsed dye lasers as first line treatment for all port wine stains . |
| 28 | Kiwanuka as first Vicar-Apostolic of Musaka in Uganda , of Mgr . |
| 29 | Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are a relatively new class of antidepressants that have been heavily promoted for use as first line treatment in depression . |
| 30 | Sir Douglas Lovelock supervises capital assets amounting to roughly £3 billion in his role as first Commissioner and a further £630 million in his capacity as chairman of the CBF . |