Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] as [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the article Garcilaso was touted as the first American and his work seen as the starting point of ‘ a sensibility absolutely new , absolutely Peruvian . ’ |
| 2 | Finally , if the worst happened , Spain was seen as a last line of continental defence . |
| 3 | Luxembourg was admitted as the 22nd DAC member ; Greece and Turkey also participated in the meeting . |
| 4 | John Welsby was appointed as the first Director , Provincial , and he set about evaluating the sources of the sector 's costs . |
| 5 | It blasphemed God 's goodness to declare that one day , the seventh , was holier than the other six ( the Christian Sunday was seen as the eighth day , pointing beyond time to eternity ) ; that some food or animals were clean and others unclean ; that some nations were less God 's children than others , or that a natural function , such as menstruation , made women unholy and hence unfit for contact with God . |
| 6 | Namibia was welcomed as the 167th member state . |
| 7 | As acting President Frederick Gilby presided over the BDDA 's first post-war Congress , held in Glasgow in 1920 , where Ernest Ayliffe was elected as the next President of the Association . |
| 8 | This afternoon Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the forty-second president of the United States . |
| 9 | El Salvador was included as the 102nd contracting party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) in an official list released on May 24 . |
| 10 | On 21 December , de Gaulle was elected as the first President of the Fifth Republic , with 78.5 per cent of the votes cast by an electoral college of 80,000 " notables " . |
| 11 | Miriam was wondering as the first fat drops of rain splashed on the verandah . |
| 12 | In each instance , the EC was seen as the last hope of halting the developments . |
| 13 | A quarter-mile embankment running through Carshalton on the line to Victoria was chosen as the first to experience new ‘ lineside vegetation management ’ practices . |
| 14 | On Oct. 25 Costa Rica was ratified as the 100th member of the General Treaty on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 15 | Mongolia was elected as the 103rd member of the organization on Sept. 4 , and Guatemala and Honduras were granted observer status . |