Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , however , I have to declare myself in favour of the general principle of a national curriculum , which has been described by Kenneth Baker as the central feature of the new Act . |
| 2 | He was joined by Richard Van Allan as the Grand Inquisitor , and these two bass-baritones supplied the power and nobility which had been wanting . |
| 3 | ANDERS Limpar believes Graham Taylor should go for Alan Shearer and Ian Wright as the attacking force to give England renewed life after Gary Lineker . |
| 4 | Also , the performance of Ivor Novello as the impoverished hero whose charming vulnerability wins the hearts of all the girls , as well as that of a bored woman surrounded by too much luxury , and Cutts 's mobile camerawork , put it in another class . |
| 5 | Mario Soares , the recently re-elected President of Portugal , appointed Gen. Vasco Rocha Vieira as the new Governor of Macao on March 21 . |
| 6 | In January 1991 , on his re-election as President of Portugal , Soares appointed Gen. Vasco Rocha Vieira as the new Governor . |
| 7 | In 1064 , Harold sailed from Bosham ; a storm cast him up in Normandy where he was apparently tricked into giving his oath on saints ' bones to pledge support for Duke William as the next king of England . |
| 8 | Sharing Coleman 's opinion of President Hafez Assad as the evil genius of state-sponsored terrorism , NALA had been formed to press for the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli troops from Lebanon and for the restoration of democracy under the aegis of General Michel Aoun , who , in September 1988 , had been appointed head of an interim military government in Beirut by outgoing President Amin Gemayel . |
| 9 | The turning point for him and the Soviet Union came in nineteen eighty five , when he succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as the General Secretary ; within one year , he 'd begun in earnest his reform programme , familiarising the world as well as his fellow Soviet citizens with words such as peristroika and glasnost . |
| 10 | A GRITTY , realistic approach to Vietnam with Burt Lancaster as the commanding officer becoming cynical about the war in 1964 , long before it became a media affair . |
| 11 | The secretary , David East , is now a figure of the distant past following his decision to resign his post over the way 10 Welsh players were recruited for the celebratory tour , and the Union still have to find a candidate to replace Rhys Williams as the junior vice-president . |
| 12 | But even this pales slightly in the face of Walton conducting , in the same series , the first-ever recorded version of Belshazzar 's Feast , featuring Dennis Noble as the incisive soloist , a wartime set that caused a sensation at the time . |
| 13 | In a rebuff to President Rafael Leonardo Callejas , the National Assembly in mid-September named Orlando Lozano Martínez as the new President of the Supreme Court after forcing the resignation of Oswaldo Ramos Soto . |
| 14 | Thus , a survey in November 1979 showed that 69 per cent preferred Edward Kennedy as the Democratic candidate for the presidency as compared to 31 per cent for Jimmy Carter . |
| 15 | The leader of the UNC , Basdeo Panday , who condemned the support given by the PNM for the government 's extension of the state of emergency was on Sept. 10 confirmed by President Noor Hassanali as the official Leader of the Opposition , a post he had held between 1976 and 1986 , as leader of the United Labour Front ( ULF ) , the then leading opposition party . |
| 16 | The next major event was the emergence of Nikita S. Khrushchev as the dear chairman of the Soviet People . |
| 17 | Blanche introduced the sergeant to Dave Pushell , who had taken over from Ken O'Mara as the new editor of Inside Out just before the murder . |
| 18 | Actress Paula Wilcox starred opposite the late Richard Beckinsale as the ever-patient girlfriend in The Lovers . |
| 19 | Nine priests concelebrated with Canon Mulvaney as the chief celebrant . |
| 20 | Hans Christian Andersen 's THE SNOW QUEEN ( The Young Vic ) did n't quite tug the heart strings , but there were some lovely touches from Jane Maud as the wicked temptress , and narrator Haydn Forde . |
| 21 | Mrs Lowes said : ‘ The plan shows Bellburn Lane as the proposed access but this is a quiet cul-de-sac and far too narrow for more traffic . |
| 22 | Rita 's winning story , Streets Ahead , features Carol Graham as the central character . |
| 23 | Manager Joe Kinnear , robbed of injured ace striker John Fashanu , sees Sheffield United 's cult hero Corky as the vital replacement to ease the club 's injury problems . |
| 24 | The appointment on Feb. 26 of Col. Faustino Rico Toro as the new head of the Special Force for the Fight against Drug Trafficking ( FELCN ) sparked off a controversy within the country , which resulted in the eventual resignation of the Chief of Police and the Interior Minister . |
| 25 | UNLAWFUL ENTRY : Retread of Fatal Attraction ground with Ray Liotta as the obsessive maniac . |
| 26 | Adam Goodley has star quality as the young innocent abroad , but even he has to bow to age and experience : Frank Lazarus as the seen-it-all piano player ( with a heart of gold , natch ! ) is wonderfully witty and quietly steals this entertaining and pleasing show . |
| 27 | The 12th NST round opened on Sept. 28 , 1989 , and ended on Dec. 8 , when Burt and Yuri Nazarkin ( who replaced Alexei Obukhov as the Soviet delegation leader in November 1988 ) held an unprecedented joint press conference at which they reaffirmed the undertaking given at the Malta summit meeting on Dec. 2-3 between President Bush of the USA and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union ( see p. 37111 ) that they would aim to conclude a START treaty by the time of the scheduled Washington summit of June 1990 . |
| 28 | The Profitboss identifies Marilyn McGregor as the top-ranking customer service engineer , highlighting the stream of compliments she gets from the field . |
| 29 | In particular , Simon Slater as the sarky office cad and Annette Badland as Beryl put in performances far above the level of the sitcom script . |
| 30 | I was particularly taken by Debra Gillett as the likeable innocent who takes some hard knocks before the night is out , while Danny Webb offers a memorable portrait of the sharpest and most driven of the salesmen , cruelly torn between elation at his own success and a growing awareness of just how grubby the whole operation is . |