Example sentences of "as [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother laughed at this , scornfully ; but in fact she gave us Christmas and birthday presents of clothes and shoes , and the record player came into the house in this way , as my eleventh birthday present . |
| 2 | I 've recorded a lot of stuff with song writers whose work I like , but I 'll probably do a cover version as my first single because , as a TV presented I 'm bound to get a lot of flak at first . ’ |
| 3 | Each week I continued and with Molly and Peggy Secord as my first Medau teachers , I was hooked on this form of rhythmic movement . |
| 4 | I thus started a relationship with that country that has been constantly rewarding for the rest of my life , and indeed I now regard it almost as my second homeland . |
| 5 | ‘ Your wife wo n't like you acting as my second skin . ’ |
| 6 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 7 | The cab simulator I think sounded best on Open , and I would have settled on the ‘ 4x12 ’ setting as my next choice . |
| 8 | going to ask that as my next question . |
| 9 | Later generations of the family spoke English as their first language and went over to the Anglican church . |
| 10 | All a child needs is £1 as their first deposit . |
| 11 | Let us , then , be clear about the difference between longevity of service and older people joining committees or boards as their first appointment . |
| 12 | Against all medical advice a large and well-known British oil company had decided to break through time-honoured barriers of sex discrimination and employ this spunky lass , a liberated young lady and somewhat vociferous champion of equal rights for women , as their first ever female labourer . |
| 13 | The fry free swim in three to four days and are able to take freshly-hatched brine shrimp as their first food . |
| 14 | A sizeable proportion — the Americans , Canadians , Australians , New Zealanders — have as their first language the most supranational of all tongues , English . |
| 15 | A further meeting a week later produced more promising results with an attendance of twelve seamen who paid one shilling each as their first contribution . |
| 16 | Of these sixty-nine ( 4. 1% ) took the organ as their first study . |
| 17 | Pat had agreed and Anne and John spent a blissful leave fitting it up as their first home . |
| 18 | Many experiments suggest that pigeons , as their first resort , use the position of the sun in the sky , making allowance for its daily changes by means of an internal clock . |
| 19 | When asked what further services clients and their carers would wish , more home help was always given as their first priority . |
| 20 | Who should have control of the curriculum ; do those who have control have the education of all pupils as their first priority ? |
| 21 | Below are the world 's major languages ranked according to the number of people who have each as their first language — their mother tongue . |
| 22 | The scrutineers will proceed to add the number of first preference votes received by each candidate , eliminate the candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes and redistribute the votes of those giving him as their first preference amongst the two remaining candidates in accordance with their second preference . |
| 23 | First , they are a single purpose authority , and , unlike the local planning authorities of England and Scotland , were able , and indeed required , to pursue positive planning as their first priority . |
| 24 | And 46 per cent of the under-25s said they did n't view marriage as their last romantic attachment . |
| 25 | The company , which has 80 staff restaurant contracts , now operates the Heal 's building in London 's Tottenham Court Road as its first UK multi-tenanted scheme , which it pioneered in the Netherlands . |
| 26 | Opposition MPs mocked the Government 's decision to take over the Student Loans Company as its first act of nationalisation . |
| 27 | Yorkshire County Cricket Club will sign Sachin Tendulkar , 18 , the Indian Test batsman , as its first overseas player today . |
| 28 | In 1961 he founded another seminary , St Vincent 's College , Langbank , and served as its first rector until 1974 . |
| 29 | Parker Commercial Filters , US has appointed Hedley Filtration as its first UK distributor for process filtration products . |
| 30 | He announced his intention to nominate , as the new Administrator of the agency , William Ruckelshaus , the man who served as its first Administrator from 1970 to 1973 . |