Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] reputation as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many commentators interpreted Aquino 's action as an attempt to revive her reputation as a populist and to distance herself from the charges of nepotism , corruption and incompetence which had been increasingly directed against her government by critics from both the right and the left . |
| 2 | Five years later she was to be found lecturing on her expedition to the Gabon , she had climbed Mount Cameroon , and her Travels in West Africa was published to consolidate her reputation as a ‘ fish and fetish ’ expert . |
| 3 | Throughout the black ‘ homelands ’ and adjacent African territories of modern Southern Africa the station continues to bear its reputation as the beginning of the migrant trail to labour in the ‘ white ’ economy . |
| 4 | It 's not for nothing that he has earned his reputation as Scotland 's most effective ‘ company doctor ’ . |
| 5 | For all those years Adolph Brückner had guarded his bloody loot and built his reputation as an art lover around it . |
| 6 | It was this work , along with the subsequent brilliance of his public performances , that created his reputation as ‘ Canada 's leading young poet ’ : ‘ His virtues are his own , and they are considerable … at his best he expresses himself , sometimes whimsically , sometimes passionately , in speech which is beyond the capacity of mere formula to produce , ’ commented Allan Donaldson at the time . |
| 7 | However , this year Mildred was older and hopefully wiser ( at any rate she was more full of good intentions than ever ) and she was quite determined to lose her reputation as the worst witch in the school . |
| 8 | Chiswick , at about that time , was enjoying its reputation as a healthy environment which one resident , Dr. W. Rose recommended to many people including Thomas Bentley , the partner to Josiah Wedgwood , and the manager of that famous Staffordware depot at Chelsea . |
| 9 | Big Healey made its reputation as a rally car — here shown on 1963 Alpine rally — but most cars were sold to the US |
| 10 | But it was an era when Belfast was building its reputation as an industrial centre . |
| 11 | In the spring of 1907 , when he began the preparatory sketches for the Demoiselles , Picasso was already establishing his reputation as one of the most outstanding of the younger figures in contemporary French painting . |
| 12 | The crisis secured his reputation as President and earned him immense popularity with the American people . |
| 13 | Yesterday Johnston Press confirmed its reputation as one of the most efficient publishers of weekly newspapers in the UK . |
| 14 | This had brought Nevzorov international media attention because of a suggested link to mafia-style organized crime and public expressions of concern from Gorbachev , but increasingly there were suspicions that Nevzorov worked for the KGB ( State Security Committee ) , and that the KGB had staged the shooting to enhance his reputation as an heroic investigative reporter . |
| 15 | Tel reached into a desk drawer , confirming his reputation as the fastest cheque-book east of Chancery Lane . |
| 16 | I know he 's got his reputation as a good teacher to keep up , but that does n't matter to me , I 'm different , I 'm not like this soft lot down here , my folks came from the North , descended from the Vikings , and I do n't want to be liked , I do n't want to be good , I do n't want to be in the football team , or a useful member of anything , I do n't want to know . |
| 17 | On his way home to Brest , sailing north-about round Ireland , Jones confirmed his reputation as a maritime Robin Hood by releasing , with a new sail and money in their pockets , some Irish fishermen he had captured , but his arrival back in port , on 8 May 1778 , proved a disappointment , for the French failed to give him the hero 's welcome he had expected . |
| 18 | Whittingham 's four-goal blast confirmed his reputation as the most lethal striker outside the Premier League . |
| 19 | There was eagerness and excitement in his voice at once , echoing the emotion which must have been obvious in Hornblower 's tone — Hornblower took notice of it , and as he buckled his waistband he reaffirmed his resolution to be more careful how he spoke , for he must regain his reputation as a silent hero . |
| 20 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 21 | The man leading the latest inquiry into drug-taking says it confirms our reputation as a nation of substance-abusers . |
| 22 | But they advise sparing use of such melodramatic tactics ‘ unless you think you can consistently use your reputation as a high-strung hysteric to your advantage ’ . |
| 23 | ( c ) The sense of responsibility held by most sub-contractors is such that they will be concerned to retain their reputation as tradesmen , particularly bearing in mind the need for continuity of employment . |
| 24 | Roy Castle took over the starring role for the show 's last nine weeks but was worried that some of the language would tarnish his reputation as a family entertainer . |
| 25 | Tony Mitchell made a rapid second ascent to keep his reputation as the man who has done everything . |
| 26 | Churchill 's support for détente may seem odd in view of his earlier criticisms of the ‘ iron curtain' , but Churchill was concerned at the dangers of global war ( especially after the explosion of hydrogen bombs by America and Russia in 1952 and 1953 ) ; he had hopes of establishing a reputation as a peacemaker , to match his reputation as a war leader ; and he believed Britain could play a major role as the arbiter between Moscow and Washington . |
| 27 | His programmes to help the unemployed , to improve working conditions and to aid agriculture established his reputation as a reformer and provided a foretaste of the New Deal . |
| 28 | Although Stark , uniquely at that date , had experimented with a severe part-Wren , part-Russian neo-baroque at the steeple of his St George 's church , Glasgow ( 1807 ) , his next major design , the Greek Doric Judiciary Buildings in Glasgow 's Saltmarket established his reputation as the pioneer of the Greek revival in Scotland . |
| 29 | He went on to conduct epidemiological studies of the transmission and variation of several other epidemic diseases , which established his reputation as an authority in this area . |
| 30 | His restoration of St Vigean 's church , Arbroath ( 1871–2 ) , established his reputation as a restorer of taste , scholarliness , and principle . |