Example sentences of "[noun prp] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basavaiah Rachaiah replaced Sarup Singh as Governor of Kerala in December 1990 [ see p. 37915 ] . |
| 2 | Markandey Singh replaced Arjan Singh as Lt.-Governor of Delhi in December 1990 [ see p. 37915 ] . |
| 3 | Film had always played an important part in the admiral 's career ( he had founded the Royal Naval Film Corporation ) , and rather than write his autobiography , he had recorded , with John Terraine as questioner , some seven hours of reflection on his life and personal relationships , and had left instructions that none of it was to be shown publicly until after his death . |
| 4 | Way back at the beginning of the club 's history there was a Ramsbottom as hall porter , and the wags in the club shortened it to Ramsbum . |
| 5 | Here he gained experience in locomotive building and his ability sufficiently impressed Charles F. Beyer , in charge of the locomotive department , so that in 1842 he recommended Ramsbottom as locomotive superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway , which in 1846 became part of the London and North Western , of which he was then appointed district superintendent of the north-east division . |
| 6 | Berthelet did not immediately succeed Pynson as king 's printer ( the statutes of 21 Henry VIII — STC 9363.6 — when Parliament was in session between 3 November and 17 December 1529 , were printed by John Rastell ) but received his appointment early in February 1530 . |
| 7 | It is conceivable that Aethelred would have preferred Wilfrid as archbishop of Canterbury to Beorhtwald and associated Beorhtwald with that eclipse of Mercian influence in Kent which is a feature of the early 690s . |
| 8 | The news of the happy event was of special interest to all in the sales-admin office as it is where both mother and father work — Donna as Customer Service Supervisor and Craig as Financial Accounts Manager on the admin side . |
| 9 | Confirmation of Barr as Attorney General |
| 10 | On Nov. 15 the Senate judiciary committee voted to confirm William Barr as Attorney General [ see p. 38521 ] following hearings during which Democrats had characterized the Bush administration 's approach to BCCI as lethargic and piecemeal . |
| 11 | Parliament on May 4 elected Konstantinos Karamanlis as President of Greece and he was sworn in on May 5 for a five-year term . |
| 12 | As a result , 1993 and 1994 should be important years for LASMO as exploration drilling proceeds in Algeria , Libya , Yemen and Vietnam , each of which is considered to offer significant potential . |
| 13 | Without Mr Gorbachev as party boss , a rapid realignment of forces would take place , making it possible for a coalition-for-democracy to line up against the coalition-for-clampdown . |
| 14 | Election of Gorbachev as President of the USSR |
| 15 | Participants at the Oct. 5 meeting agreed that the violence did not originate in tribal conflict between Xhosa and Zulu , as had been widely reported , but was " orchestrated by certain faceless forces " ( later named by Mandela as state security organs , specifically the National Intelligence Service and the Civil Co-operation Bureau ) . |
| 16 | Encarnación Valdiva ( " the Tiger " ) reportedly replaced Morán as re-contra leader on Sept. 7 and called for fresh negotiations with the government . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , in 1918 , following the retirement of the Rev W B Sleight as President , the Rev F W Gilby M.A. agreed to occupy this position as a stop-gap until the election of a successor at the first Congress after the end of the First World War . |
| 18 | Apart from the political objections many Latin American governments would have to the purchase of Soviet armaments , the traditional predominance of the United States as supplier of military hardware to the region , along with the increasing strength of Brazil as an arms exporter ( $1 billion worth in 1981 ) , are highly significant obstacles to the expansion of Soviet arms sales to Latin America . |
| 19 | It was said that one result of reading the Section as I read it would be this : that Mr Astor would be liable to pay tax in respect of the income received by the trustee in the United States as income deemed to be his ( Part XV ) and also likely to pay tax on the income which the trustee was bound to pay over , the latter being ( within the decision in [ Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1930 ) 15 TC 693 ] ) the income springing from a foreign possession , namely , his right of action against the trustee . |
| 20 | Sabit Broka replaced Ahmet Kamberi as Health Service Minister , and Mojkom Zeqo replaced Alfred Uci in the Cabinet-rank post of Chair of the Committee for Culture and the Arts . |
| 21 | Its presidium included Shevardnadze as chair , Dzhaba Iosseliani ( leader of the Mkhedrioni militia commander instrumental in toppling Gamsakhurdia ) as deputy chair , Tengiz Sigua ( hitherto acting as Prime Minister ) and Tengiz Kitovani ( head of the Georgian National Guard ) . |
| 22 | The Appointment of Gilbert Scott as Architect and his New Brief |
| 23 | The Purldrops Machine Knitting Club had re-elected the committee for the next year with Carole Porter as Chairperson and Jackie Scott as Secretary . |
| 24 | The Kurdish National Assembly held its inaugural meeting at Arbil on June 4 , electing the oldest council member , Hasan Kanabi , as chairman , and Jawhar Namiq Salim of the KDP as speaker , with Muhammad Tawfiq as his deputy . |
| 25 | Of particular relevance to Barbarossa as Emperor was the use of the chain mail stolen from the Saracens , and the resulting changes in European manufacture that followed . |
| 26 | Mr. James Butlin as house surgeon , apothecary , and secretary , |
| 27 | Dr. Grant David Yeats M.D. as physician to the institution , |
| 28 | In the meantime Kalpokas appointed to his Cabinet several of the more prominent figures dismissed by Lini over the previous year , including Edward Natapei as Foreign Minister , Abbil as Home Affairs Minister and Sela Molisa as Finance Minister . |
| 29 | In January 1987 a branch of the Young Women 's Association was formed with Mrs Averil Capper as president , Mrs Norma Burke as vice-president , Mrs Sylvia Courtney as secretary and Mrs Gale Davison as treasurer . |
| 30 | Hayden Phillips , smooth , urbane , the kind of establishment figure that the Thatcherites liked to take on , he has had a brilliant career which started in the Home Office , took him to Brussels as chef de cabinet to Roy Jenkins and then to the Treasury as Deputy Secretary . |