Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he carried that Conservative generation to vote a motion which preferred Liberalism to Conservatism as the better future for the country . |
| 2 | Promoted to a senior lectureship in 1973 and to his professorship in German some 10 years later , he was one of the few remaining full-time members of the staff to have witnessed not only the coming of age of the University , but also the massive expansion of the Modern Languages Department and its impressive rise to prominence as an exponent of the applied approach to the teaching of languages , involving a marked shift of emphasis from a near exclusive preoccupation with literary studies in one foreign language to the development of communication skills in at least two . |
| 3 | THE only surprise in the history of interferon is its meteoric rise to fame as a cancer cure , after its earlier promise as an anti-viral agent . |
| 4 | The nature , aims and objectives of such an Association would therefore need to be carefully thought through , and its formal relationship to Convocation as a statutory body be clearly and unequivocally defined . |
| 5 | His subsequent rise to power as the charismatic leader of Britain 's ‘ war socialism ’ provides the best illustration of the tendency for left and right-wing collectivism to converge around a nationalist economics utterly alien to the Cobdenite traditions of the pacifists . |