Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun sg] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 2 | However , the PCI retained its position as the second-largest party . |
| 3 | In elections to the 183-seat Nationalrat ( lower house of parliament ) on Oct. 7 the Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) retained its position as the largest single party . |
| 4 | The most significant political event of the 12 months to June 1991 was the October 1990 general election in which the SPÖ retained its position as the largest single party , the ÖVP registered its worst result since 1945 , and the main beneficiary was the FPÖ [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 5 | On May 13 Don W. Wilson — who , as the head of the National Archives and Records Administration , was generally accepted as the custodian of the Constitution — declared his support for the validity of the measure and stated that he was preparing to certify its adoption as the 27th Amendment . |
| 6 | Crossman joined Ambrose 's Embassy Club Orchestra in 1926 , some years before the band made its name as the finest jazz group in Europe . |
| 7 | Peter White , Managing Director of British Airways Cargo , comments : ‘ Air cargo is increasingly proving its worth as the premier mode of distribution , especially as more companies practice ‘ Just-In-Time ’ inventory controls . |
| 8 | By his death , the membership had doubled , the MCC was developing its role as the judicious lawgiver of the game , and there were many more cleaner-cut fixtures , with schools and the universities , for example . |
| 9 | It is that the Fund , through lack of accountability , has failed over the past year to fulfil its function as the main conduit for aid to Russia . |
| 10 | IF THE space station dies , or is substantially slimmed down , the Superconducting Super Collider ( SSC ) , under construction in Ellis County , Texas , will claim its title as the biggest science project . |
| 11 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 12 | The Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) , which represented the bulk of the former Communist Party , with 16.1 per cent of the vote and 107 seats , confirmed its position as the leading opposition party and therefore figured prominently in the discussions on the formation of a new governing coalition . |
| 13 | For Pickford The Eternal Grind was a step towards her true screen self , which she was to discover most fully in The Poor Little Rich Girl of 1917 , a film which satirized the rich whilst it confirmed its star as the richest actress in the world . |
| 14 | At the time , Sydney was essentially a centre created around a convict population , yet eager to assert its status as the commercial and cultural capital of the continent . |
| 15 | Environmentalists dubbed it a failure for this reason , but acknowledged its importance as the first occasion on which all major world governments had agreed that global warming was a reality . |
| 16 | By the Welland St. Wilfrid built St. Leonard 's Priory , a masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon architecture , befitting its status as the first religious house in all Mercia . |
| 17 | It therefore refused to cede its authority as the recognised providing body to the Board . |
| 18 | The Democratic Union ( UD ) , part of the governing coalition , lost its place as the largest parliamentary party when on Sept. 20 six deputies , supporters of the right-wing Forum of the Democratic Right group , left the UD . |
| 19 | Responsibility for their welfare and early learning experiences has traditionally rested with the family , but some would argue that the family is losing its viability as the primary provider for children . |
| 20 | The failure of the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — formerly the Communist Party — PCI ) to hold its position as the second electoral force was unprecedented in any post-war elections of comparable scope . |
| 21 | The museum has two objectives now : to display costumes from its collection of 50,000 objects throughout the year ; and to reclaim its role as the preeminent institution of costume scholarship . |
| 22 | The first oil crisis gave rise to renewed demand for dollars , since payments to oil exporting countries are made in this form , but in the late 1970s this was followed by another dollar crisis which undermined its integrity as the key international reserve asset . |
| 23 | It is a fine , Medieval bridge , guarded at each end and fortified as befitted its position as the sole river crossing and approach to the castle . |
| 24 | The M19-Democratic Alliance ( ADM-19 ) of former left-wing guerrillas , which ran a single slate of candidates , consolidated its position as the third political force in the country , winning nine Senate seats and 15 in the lower house , although its support dropped dramatically from 27 to 10 per cent of the vote . |
| 25 | In September 1964 a special meeting of the corporation finance committee , which included all councillors , adopted an amended motion which gave the boundary extension subcommittee the power to include in its remit the progressive expansion of Derry , so as to maintain its position as the second city in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc has won an OEM contract with Xerox Corp to supply its Unix as the standard operating system component of the Xerox DocuTech Publishing Series Extended Storage product : it will run on a Compaq Computer Corp Systempro/LT 486/33 with 8Mb internal memory and two 1Gb disk drives . |
| 27 | Kirkbymoorside deserves sympathy for having lost its status as the only town in the country to have so far escaped the painter 's handiwork . |
| 28 | The programme will have succeeded if , in 15 years ' time , primary health care in the capital has lost its status as the national laggard ; the quality of the services it offers matches or exceeds that enjoyed in the rest of England ; and London has become a place where aspiring primary health care practitioners in all disciplines aim to work . |
| 29 | MORGAN Grenfell has maintained its position as the top financial adviser for British public takeovers . |
| 30 | DIESEL fuel needs a new PR agent to clean up its image in the minds of the public if it is to take its place as the efficient , environmental fuel of the future that many would like it to be . |