Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 2 | Osaka maintained its importance as a financial , commercial and industrial centre , but despite a population of over 1.5 million in 1920 was still dwarfed by Tokyo , which was not only the locus of a highly centralized national administration but attracted financial , commercial , industrial , educational and cultural activities as well . |
| 3 | Only the Foreign Ministry , still occupied by Serrano Suñer , retained its position as a pro-Falangist stronghold , for the continued dominance of the Axis in the European war advised maintaining a pro-Axis stance in external affairs . |
| 4 | However , the PCI retained its position as the second-largest party . |
| 5 | In elections to the 183-seat Nationalrat ( lower house of parliament ) on Oct. 7 the Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) retained its position as the largest single party . |
| 6 | The most significant political event of the 12 months to June 1991 was the October 1990 general election in which the SPÖ retained its position as the largest single party , the ÖVP registered its worst result since 1945 , and the main beneficiary was the FPÖ [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 7 | Twenty six ( 46% ) of the 56 respondents described their pain as a minor nuisance , 23 ( 41% ) as moderately severe , and six ( 11% ) as interfering with their activities . |
| 8 | Havelock Wilson regarded its collapse as a direct consequence of shipowner hostility but the true situation was certainly more complex than this . |
| 9 | They also regarded their influence as a finite resource to be husbanded , used on major issues , and not frittered away on minor skirmishes or issues on which they were likely to be in a minority in Cabinet . |
| 10 | Elizabeth never married but used her spinsterhood as a diplomatic bate — Robert Dudley , the Earl of Leicester , was very close and , after his death , his stepson , the Earl of Essex , became close , but he was executed for treason when it was learned that he had entered into a conspiracy . |
| 11 | Instead he used her remark as the perfect occasion for a quarrel . |
| 12 | He listed his experience as a fourteen-year-old ‘ irregular ’ in Ireland and his knowledge of the ‘ rudiments of Musketry , Bayonet Fighting and Squad Drill ’ which he had acquired during his four months of under-age service at Worcester . |
| 13 | However , President Mikhail Gorbachev , as CPSU general secretary , once again demonstrated his skill as a political tactician to sway the voting on key issues in his favour . |
| 14 | As such it underlined Clinton 's growing reputation for resilience and once again demonstrated his effectiveness as a campaigning politician . |
| 15 | In those days the fieldworker retained his status as a privileged stranger and proceeded to make a catalogue of ancient manners and customs much as if he were a policeman investigating a crime . |
| 16 | He described his daughter as a shy , inoffensive and sensitive girl and a private person . |
| 17 | Jailing him for three and a half years Judge Richard Lowry described his behaviour as a dreadful crime . |
| 18 | Either Kuzmitch was lying ( and defectors often do ) , or Blake was a very clever spy who , despite the temptation to confide in Kuzmitch and thus get better treatment , maintained his role as a long-term sleeper agent . |
| 19 | He caught his breath as the black fringes of her lashes swept upwards and the golden eyes met his . |
| 20 | McMurdo and Waugh paid their share but Johnstone prevaricated until 1989 when Sheriff Officers acting for the brewery issued arrestment orders ‘ freezing ’ Johnstone 's wages from his work in broadcasting and sports journalism , where he eventually found his niche as a witty and streetwise commentator . |
| 21 | He used his poetry as an autobiographical outlet , incorporating detailed personal matter about his illness into the dull routine of conventional composition and translation . |
| 22 | It is not clear whether Lancaster 's men were in arms or not , but Mortimer regarded his absence as a sufficient threat to raise a force in the king 's name , and on the way back to London from Salisbury in the company of the king this force encountered Lancaster 's men near Winchester . |
| 23 | I got the impression he regarded his editorship as the high point of his life . |
| 24 | We have analysed the influence of a combined index ( the Newcastle prescribing index ) , which is based on patient age and sex , on the prescribing of general practitioners in two family health services authorities and evaluated its usefulness as a notional indicator of costs and items . |
| 25 | Crossman joined Ambrose 's Embassy Club Orchestra in 1926 , some years before the band made its name as the finest jazz group in Europe . |
| 26 | We have seen how Labour made its re-emergence as a governing force in 1964 on the basis of a need for sweeping ‘ modernisation ’ and planning , pulling together a support bloc spanning the left and managerial technocrats , and how the expectations raised in the early Wilson period were substantially frustrated . |
| 27 | One surprise offer came my way as a direct result . |
| 28 | The government on July 11 renounced its right as a developing country under the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) to impose certain temporary restrictions on imports . |
| 29 | Like Patrick , he at once recognised its potential as an improvised mortar . |
| 30 | In May , more than 100 senior judges castigated his plans as a serious threat to the quality of justice . |