Example sentences of "as a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became an integral feature of Palace 's FA Cup side which reached the semi-final as a 3rd Division club in 1976 , and of that which won promotion under Terry Venables the following season . |
| 2 | A £20,000 Alfa Romeo sports car , planned as a 17th birthday present for Daniel , will also be sold so there are no links with his father . |
| 3 | This beautiful hotel , situated across a busy road from the fine shingle beach , retains the atmosphere and style of its origins as a 17th century summer residence . |
| 4 | Jeanne Rynhart , who immortalised the Dublin heroine in a sculpture depicting her as a 17th Century prostitute , said Molly would always live in the city 's folk memory . |
| 5 | Can we even construe Freudian theory as a nineteenth century articulation of these ideas about possession ? |
| 6 | But to avoid law and list anthropology as a first choice was inexplicable : |
| 7 | As a first stage towards reviving the route 's viability plans were made to accelerate certain key Glasgow services by raising the line speeds from 100 to 110mph ; the second stage was to prepare an investment case for new equipment to fill the gap which would otherwise have been covered by APT . |
| 8 | The South-West — whose Bath-Bristol-Gloucester resources have appeared in the past to resemble rugby 's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle — are set on improving their disappointing Divisional Championship record , and their success against Leinster in Dublin last week was seen as a first step in the right direction . |
| 9 | Mr Cordle was applauded as he demanded the abolition of standing charges for pensioners on gas , electricity and telephone bills as a first step towards helping them . |
| 10 | Southwell , as well as Lingfield , has been chosen as a first venue for all-weather racing in this country . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , they have to be embraced as a first step in understanding the limits to where Africa may be in another twenty-five or even fifty years . |
| 12 | Mr Geremek said as a first step Poland would soon seek full membership in the Council of Europe . |
| 13 | Mr Geremek said as a first step Poland would soon seek full membership in the Council of Europe . |
| 14 | What they want is business , not as an exclusive right but as a first option . |
| 15 | They include Azabu Group , which plans to sell 60 properties worth around ¥200 billion by the end of June ; Itoman , a trading company which hopes to sell and lease back its Osaka headquarters for ¥80 billion as a first step towards paying off its debt of ¥1.3 trillion , much of it owed to Sumitomo Bank ; and MDI , which wants to unload ¥50 billion out of ¥150 billion worth of residential property that it holds for development . |
| 16 | As a first step , sherds of known origin from the two centres were analysed . |
| 17 | Start with a single piece of dried food as a first course and offer nothing more until it is consumed . |
| 18 | The next day use two pieces of dry food as a first course , the next day use four and so on , gradually increasing the size of the first course until the dog 's meal comprises a huge first course of dry food followed by a minuscule second course of only a single nugget of dry food garnished with some juicy brown food as a reward for cleaning its bowl . |
| 19 | As a first step in describing this debate , consider the positions taken up by the two leading naturalists at the end of the eighteenth century , the Swede Linnaeus and the Frenchman Buffon . |
| 20 | As a first example , consider our teeth . |
| 21 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 22 | Treating cases of child sexual abuse as a first priority needs to be matched with improvements in planning which will permit practitioners to meet this service demand . |
| 23 | The US Office of Technology Assessment classified cobalt as a first tier strategic material , alongside chromium , manganese and the platinum group metals . |
| 24 | As a first step in the reform of teacher training , postgraduate students will spend much more time in school classrooms , learning their skills under the practised eye of senior teachers . |
| 25 | we have taken the lead in Europe in pressing for the establishment of a Europe-wide Drugs Unit , as a first step towards a creation of a ‘ Europol ’ ; |
| 26 | We welcome the provisions of the Maastricht Treaty as a first step . |
| 27 | True to his maxim that ‘ Liberty crowns the edifice ’ , Napoleon III now felt that the time was opportune and , as a first step , had granted virtually total freedom of the press and the tight of public meetings . |
| 28 | As a first step she must go to Paris to meet the Ministers and in the early hours of the morning she left by carriage for the Tuileries , where , on arrival , she immediately sent messages convoking a Council of Ministers . |
| 29 | They adopted French Christian names , often spoke French as a first language , were educated at French schools and frequently sent their children to French universities . |
| 30 | They should be useful , however , when we are asked to produce lists of new titles for catalogues , budgets , etc , as a first point of reference . ) |