Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] as the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | We played a couple of club dates , one of which was filmed as the next video for ‘ Back To The Light ’ , and then we did three smallish stadium gigs with Joe Cocker and the B-52s , and they went very well too . |
2 | A twelve year old boy who 's tipped as the next Aled Jones is taking part in an open-air production of Benjamin Britten 's opera ’ The Turn of the Screw ’ . |
3 | On going down from Newnham , she was appointed as the first principal of Cambridge Training College , formed with the purpose of training university women to teach in girls ' secondary schools . |
4 | That is why we need history presented as it is in this book : not just as the brief flicker of time since the industrial revolution or since the invention of writing , but as the 40,000 years of modern thought and language , and the sweep of six million years since we were born as the third chimpanzee . |
5 | Position one was chosen as the first cell in the vertical column at the crypt orifice ( Fig 2 ) as a reference point for the computer programme . |
6 | They are seen as the last defence of standards . |
7 | They are seen as the last surviving areas of untouched wildlife . |
8 | Mansion House has only 24 , but it 's seen as the first step to putting the University at the forefront of childcare provision . |
9 | It is conceived as the first step towards a written constitution for the United Kingdom . |
10 | Only in this case Italians do not want to stop the flood — on the contrary , it is seen as the first real chance to clean out the corruption which is endemic in the system . |
11 | IT IS revered as the last word in wonderful facts , loved by schoolchildren and eggheads alike . |
12 | • The identity of the Second Channel has been given as Ali Hashemi Bahranani , Rafsanjani 's nephew , He is kept as the Second Channel here , for simplicity 's sake . |
13 | In 1981 Bangladesh 's estimated population of 90,630,000 people meant that it was ranked as the eighth largest country in the world ( by population ) , and the fifth largest developing country . |
14 | ‘ It was built as the first main processing plant to support the basic nuclear industry of the country and , of course , it has also processed fuel from Japan and Italy . |
15 | It was described as the second largest in Europe . |
16 | What set Sadler apart from his contemporaries and rivals in Britain and France , was that he was acknowledged as the first to consciously apply science , to aerostation . |
17 | In 1970 he was appointed as the first honorary consul in Scotland for the republic of Turkey , a post in which his understanding and knowledge of the country was of great help to those in need . |
18 | In 1906 he became university lecturer in palaeography , in 1920 he received a Cambridge Litt.D. , in 1925 he served as Sandars reader in bibliography , and in 1927 he was elected as the first full-time Disney professor of archaeology . |
19 | So in fact he knew that he was known as the last resort |
20 | I 'm I 'm not so sure that he knew he was known as the last resort . |
21 | Representatives of the UniForum open systems user group and its European counterpart , EurOpen , were in Utrecht this week to promote what is billed as the first pan-European open systems exhibition and conference . |
22 | What is billed as the First Green Consumer Exhibition opens its doors at The Royal Horticultural Halls between 24 and 28 May . |
23 | After the revolution , in 1923 , Moscow River Yacht Club challenged the Workers Fitness Club for what was recorded as the first rugby encounter in the history of Soviet sport . |
24 | The Commander of the Air Force since 1979 , Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo , was appointed military attaché to Israel at the beginning of January 1990 in what was seen as the first step in reducing the power of senior right-wing officers . |
25 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on May 16 passed what was described as the first unclassified legislation regulating the state security services . |
26 | Earlier in the month , on Nov. 8 , Roh had attended a one-day meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Kyoto , in what was described as the first of a planned series of regular bilateral discussions . |
27 | Some reports suggested that it had survived what was described as the fourth attempted coup since Bashir took power from the government of Sadiq el-Mahdi in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |