Example sentences of "[be] [verb] as the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the bloom shape is the ultimate , only time will tell , for there have been other occasions in the development of the rose when a new type has been regarded as the last word . |
| 2 | Follow Me , which is also mainly a vehicle for language items , is different in that some sections are designed as the first introduction to a language item . |
| 3 | It had referred to Mr Donovan because he had been targeted as the first victim of the campaign in Britain . |
| 4 | It had referred to Mr Donovan because he had been targeted as the first victim of the campaign in Britain . |
| 5 | In fact , if the children aged thirty and above are considered as the second generation of adults , then three-quarters of the men and two-thirds of the women were living in parishes other than Cardington . |
| 6 | They are seen as the last defence of standards . |
| 7 | In the post-1945 period , national liberation has been seen as the first line of rebellion against capitalism . |
| 8 | Usually these years are counted as the last year of the dead king 's reign . |
| 9 | Tyrothricin can reasonably be regarded as the first antibiotic to be established as a therapeutic substance . |
| 10 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
| 11 | Nor can the stability argument be regarded as the last word , as we do not know whether general relativity itself will be valid right up to the space-time singularity . |
| 12 | This may be regarded as the last fling of this relationship . |
| 13 | You may be able to claim constructive dismissal even if the incident which directly leads to your departure is minor , if it can be regarded as the last straw . |
| 14 | This software enabled the first of a number of useful commercial applications of AI to be constructed ; many of these can be considered as the second generation of expert systems . |
| 15 | As only the better-off members could afford the piece of silver , this can be seen as the first sign that the classless Society of Archers was being taken over by the wealthier members . |
| 16 | With hindsight , this can be seen as the first step in the transformation of Gloucester into the lord of the north , but this is to read too much into a single grant . |
| 17 | With hindsight , this can be seen as the first step in the transformation of Gloucester into the lord of the north , but this is to read too much into a single grant . |
| 18 | The inclusion of penguins among the animals depicted can now be seen as the first indication that prehistorians have had that these birds were present in the Mediterranean during the palaeolithic era , and not proof , as was recently suggested , that the paintings are modern forgeries . |
| 19 | The media often presented Jones ' results as supporting those of the two chemists whereas in due course , if not already , his work will be seen as the first refutation of the some of their claims ; his neutrons were orders of magnitude below theirs and he never made any direct measurements of heat . |
| 20 | In view of its clear advantages over the other lasers , whose rate of energy delivery does not match the predicted physical behaviour of the blood vessels , we suggest that the pulsed dye laser should be offered as the first line treatment for portwine stains whenever possible . |
| 21 | Magellan is to be ranked as the first navigator of ancient or modern times , and his voyage is the greatest single human achievement on the sea . |
| 22 | Out of all the many hundreds of 16th- and 17th-century wills that I have studied , his is the only one to include a reference to its writer 's age : its intimation that on 15 November 1622 he was in his 80th year allows 1992 or 1993 to be marked as the 450th anniversary of his birth . |
| 23 | Innocent III himself by the bull " Vineam Domini " of April 1213 summoned a great council to meet at the Lateran in Rome on 1 November 1215 to be known as the Fourth Lateran Council . |
| 24 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 25 | The record keys are continuous starting from 14 836 ; the position of a record with the key 15 302 would be calculated as follows : i.e. this is the 467th record in the file : This means that it will be stored as the fifth record on the thirty-fourth track of the file . |
| 26 | The accumulated rights , earned on the basis of Peru 's performance under its IMF-monitored adjustment programme , would then be encashed as the first disbursement under a successor IMF-supported programme . |
| 27 | Even incontinence can sometimes be viewed as the last weapon of self assertion ( Newman , 1978 ) . |
| 28 | However , if the UIC was [ C2168 , ABC ] then this UIC should be specified as the third parameter . |
| 29 | Collie then turns to what can be identified as the second area of instability within the new English : its claims to inculcate a sense of social responsibility . |
| 30 | This immediate post-war shortage ushered in what may be identified as the first phase of the emergence of headhunting . |