Example sentences of "as the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the 13th Earl of Eglinton , he was also Earl of Winton , Lord Montgomerie , Lord Seton and Tranent , Baron Ardrossan and Hereditary Sheriff of Renfrewshire . |
| 2 | The date was first fixed as the 13th July , in International Eisteddfod week , as I thought members might like to take a look at the eisteddfod after a ride on the train . |
| 3 | Her mother-in-law , Virginia Kelley , has no doubt that Hillary is going to be a major part of her son 's administration as the 41st president of the United States . |
| 4 | She discussed in this context who she saw as the twentieth century 's two most influential analysts of theatre : Brecht and Antonin Artaud . |
| 5 | Mozambique and Namibia acceded as the 104th and 105th contracting parties of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) on July 27 and Sept. 15 respectively . |
| 6 | Any software claiming to be pan-European obviously needs to comply with major accounting standards such as the 4th and 7th EC directives , for example , and would benefit from links to online databases providing up-to-date information on legislation across the EC . |
| 7 | Also led to that famous shot in the video with the bloke leaping onto/into the crowd as the 4th rattled in . |
| 8 | President Mobutu of Zaire has publicly objected to not being acknowledged as the seventh richest man in the world . |
| 9 | He first became an MP in 1841 as member for Newark and , apart from a break between 1847 and 1850 , he remained in the Commons until he succeeded as the seventh Duke of Rutland in 1888 . |
| 10 | For some time it stood as the seventh ‘ port ’ in the kingdom , despite the fact that its quays were some distance away ; its merchants had exclusive rights over trade in much of western Sussex for most of the later middle ages . |
| 11 | Top Of The Pops , reported to be in its dying days , trailed in as the seventh best TV programme . |
| 12 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |
| 13 | The June meeting was attended by Hans Brunhart , the head of government and Foreign Minister of Liechtenstein , which was involved in EFTA via a special protocol to the Stockholm Convention ; Brunhart said on April 3 that his country had been accepted as the seventh EFTA negotiating and contracting partner in the EES and was ready to become a full member of EFTA or strengthen institutional ties with the organization once an EES agreement was concluded . |
| 14 | Luxembourg was admitted as the 22nd DAC member ; Greece and Turkey also participated in the meeting . |
| 15 | As the nineteenth century gathered pace many more libraries sprang up , as will be seen from examples given at the end of this book . |
| 16 | Engels may well rank as the nineteenth century 's most significant military thinker after Clausewitz . |
| 17 | Before the new holes were commissioned the best had to be made of the shortened course , such as the 2nd also playing as the 17th . |
| 18 | Namibia was welcomed as the 167th member state . |
| 19 | In 1986 Agrokomerc ranked , in terms of its turnover , as the twenty-ninth largest enterprise in Yugoslavia ( EP , 7 September 1987 ) . |
| 20 | The Senate confirmed Robert M. Gates as the 15th director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) by 64 votes to 31 on Nov. 5 . |
| 21 | Chris Patten , sworn into office as the 28th Governor of Hong Kong on July 9 , pledged to represent Hong Kong 's interests " courteously and firmly " while seeking " good co-operation " with China , but noted that " trust is a two-way street " . |
| 22 | Before the new holes were commissioned the best had to be made of the shortened course , such as the 2nd also playing as the 17th . |
| 23 | Clearly established as the European success of the year after a triumphant progress from Cannes to the continental box office , CYRANO DE BERGERAC stars Gerard Depardieu in characteristic form as the 17th century soldier-poet , a stoic bearer of tragi-comic disfigurement , secretly in love with his cousin Roxanne ( Anne Brochet ) . |
| 24 | To some boxing purists , Mr Bowe 's performance was only faintly more ridiculous than the addition of strawweight ( or mini-flyweight ) as the 17th weight division in the late 1980s . |
| 25 | Finally , there was the 1st Surrey Rifles , raised in 1859 at Camberwell as The 1st Surrey ( South London ) Rifle Volunteer Corps . |
| 26 | In 1860 eleven independent Cumbrian rifle corps were grouped together as The 1st Admin Battalion of Cumberland Rifle Volunteers . |
| 27 | In 1880 the eleven battalions were merged as The 1st Cumberland and 1st Westmorland Rifle volunteer Corps . |
| 28 | On Oct. 25 Costa Rica was ratified as the 100th member of the General Treaty on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 29 | A second IMF-approved emergency economic plan , announced in December , included a 3 per cent sales tax and a 10 per cent surcharge on all imports , raising fears that members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades ( GATT ) , to which Costa Rica acceded as the 100th member on Nov. 20 [ see p. 38259 ] , might retaliate in kind . |
| 30 | Bedford Park is regarded as the first Garden Suburb in England , and thus has an international importance , while Shaw is one of the most important architects of the Victorian period , best known as the designer of the old New Scotland Yard building on the London Embankment . |