Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [num] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The museum is housed in the oldest public museum building in the country , opened in 1683 as the original Ashmolean Museum . |
| 2 | Started in 1935 as the Central Council for Recreative Physical Training , it remains , in spite of the many changes in social attitudes and lifestyle since its inception , a major force in sport and recreation in the UK . |
| 3 | The Rover Group emerged in 1986 as the old BL was split up , then British Aerospace stepped in to buy Rover . |
| 4 | That success led the Newmanites further into electoral politics , where they finally emerged in 1979 as the neutral-sounding New Alliance Party . |
| 5 | The reforms at the Exchequer , which re-emerged in 1554 as the central office of royal finance , were significant in altering its detailed procedure but left unchanged its fundamental nature and purpose : it was still designed to receive cash , pay the royal debts , and audit accounts , not to exercise full control over national finances by drawing up budgets , monitoring expenditure , and increasing revenues . |
| 6 | The Left Book Club continued throughout 1938 as the unifying force behind the United Peace Alliance . |
| 7 | In 1677 a poem in three cantos was published entitled Minerva , Or the Art of Weaving and reissued in 1682 as The Triumphant Weaver . |