Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC and Microsoft , neither of whom could ever be accused of being the least bit friendly to Unix , look for all the world like they 're ganging up to try and kill it off once and for all , using NT-on-Alpha as the blunt instrument . |
| 2 | SNA communications house Systems Strategies Inc says it has designated UnixWare as the primary development platform for its new Express 2.0 Unix-to-IBM ( AS/400 and mainframe ) comms software . |
| 3 | Uniform start date to be Thursdays , and matches to include Saturday as the third day . |
| 4 | The USA overtook Germany as the leading exporter of merchandise , with a 7.5 per cent rise in exports , and the USA was also the world 's biggest merchandise importer , with Germany second and Japan third in both categories . |
| 5 | Back in the thirteenth century , Marco Polo described Bukhara as the finest city in all Persia and Tabriz as the most splendid city in the province ( of Iraq ) , neither of which corresponds to our contemporary understanding . |
| 6 | President Izetbegovic , addressing a news conference later at the Dorchester Hotel , described Britain as the western country most opposed to lifting the arms embargo . |
| 7 | Marlborough 's campaigns have commanded the admiration of military analysts ; his successes showed that Britain could conduct a war on land , and made it clear that the balance of power would be maintained and Louis XIV would not be able to establish France as the dominant power in western Europe in the way that had seemed probable in the 1680s . |
| 8 | In the late Middle Ages the West Riding of Yorkshire , particularly the Leeds-Bradford area , emerged as a major centre of the woollen textile industry , as it was to remain , overtaking York as the major centre of the cloth trade in the North ( 82 , p.152 ) . |
| 9 | And Britain joins Switzerland as the only country that has approved the drug usually known as Cy-A , for use outside clinical trials . |
| 10 | Cooke said : ‘ My motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world . |
| 11 | It was all too much for Khrushchev 's colleagues — notably Leonid Brezhnev , unequivocally identified as organizer of the coup , and Mikhail Suslov , in charge of ideology in those years , but also Yuri Andropov , a Central Committee secretary in 1964 who 18 years later would succeed Brezhnev as the Soviet leader . |
| 12 | Quite apart from the fact that Hopper 's movie was eventually virtually sabotaged by the studio ( or himself , depending on which side you were on ) , director Bob Rafelson had a good script which would without question consolidate Nicholson as the finest exponent of counter-culture appeal available anywhere in America in that year . |
| 13 | The proponents of this view will advance Reagan as the great champion of freedom , as the man who won the Cold War . |
| 14 | The World Boxing Organisation yesterday installed McMillan as the mandatory challenger to Palacio because of the ‘ unusual circumstances ’ surrounding the defeat , which keeps the Hoko show-down still a possibility . |
| 15 | Many of those photographs show Sherborne as the great farming community it once was . |
| 16 | Whatever windfall profits might be earned from minor wars and international tensions , there was little doubt in the City that their interests lay in sustaining Britain as the free trading capital of a world-wide empire of finance , rather than retreating into the protectionist bloc envisaged by proponents of Imperial Federation . |
| 17 | There was great disappointment when the Government decided to choose Glasgow as the preferred option , in spite of the deal Chester had put together . |
| 18 | Pendrich has also qualified for the sprint freestyle , but currently lies in eleventh place and has little chance of replacing Sheppard as the new champion . |
| 19 | Barre was also reported to have named Morgan as the new C.-in-C. of the Somali National Army on Nov. 20 in place of his son , Brig. -Gen . |
| 20 | But Coventry 's Bobby Gould sees Gibson as the ideal replacement for Kevin Gallacher , who seems destined for a £2 million move to Chelsea . |
| 21 | ‘ I have put my Spirit upon him ; he will bring forth justice to the nations ’ says God through the prophet And now the Spirit had come , and Mark 's account of the baptism makes it abundantly clear that he sees Jesus as the Messianic Son and the Suffering Servant , equipped or his … stupendous task with the Spirit of God promised for the end-time . |
| 22 | He sees God as the unseen power pervading all things , the sum-total of life , the indefinable , the formless , the nameless . |
| 23 | There 's little doubt the Commonwealth sees France as the main target of the mission , but as a mainly English speaking organization , its influence on President Mitterand may be limited so the French speakers among them will be pressed into service . |
| 24 | The Economic Development Board ( EDB ) reported in January 1991 that Singapore had attracted a record US$1,410 million in manufacturing investment in 1990 , with the United States surpassing Japan as the principal source . |
| 25 | Market share was up to 12.6% , ranking Airtours as the third-largest tour operator in Britain behind Thomson ( 32% ) and Owners Abroad ( 12.9% ) . |
| 26 | Survey reveals Britain as the old man of Europe |
| 27 | Alex Hamilton 's paperback bestseller list of 1992 , published last week in these pages and in the Guardian , showed Transworld as the leading publisher of the top 100 titles , with 19 titles on the list . |
| 28 | On another occasion he went to the extreme of adulation , describing Mosley as the greatest man God had ever created . |
| 29 | I believe that George killed Lennie as the ultimate act of friendship . |
| 30 | QFE has replaced QNH as the standard landing datum for all RAF , Army and Ministry of Defence airfields . |