Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] as [art] [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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I believe it was canvassed as a first stage towards total ‘ Danu-isation ’ of the conflict , internalisation of the war . |
6 | ‘ 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 . |
7 | It was described as the second largest in Europe . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | So in fact he knew that he was known as the last resort |
12 | I 'm I 'm not so sure that he knew he was known as the last resort . |
13 | The effect was that Craig did not receive 1,476 out of the 3,813 papers on which he was shown as a second preference . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on May 16 passed what was described as the first unclassified legislation regulating the state security services . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 ] . |