Example sentences of "[num] and [vb pp] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it was back to Mick 's summer stamping ground at Henna Cliff , one which Mick dubiously claims is getting ‘ very popular ’ , and climbed Henna Fall ( grade III/IV and claimed as a three-star 95 foot classic ) . |
| 2 | A spinster in her seventies and employed as a housekeeper at the time , she died in Bishopsgate Street on 17 April 1898 . |
| 3 | He was born in Fife in 1870 and apprenticed as a carpenter but spent most of his life in England after leaving Scotland in 1893 . |
| 4 | Chief Officer Mason left as a Corporal motor-cyclist in 1914 and returned as a Major in 1919 . |
| 5 | Penguin Books has issued an eighth revised edition of Sir John Summerson 's Architecture in Britain 1530–1830 , first published in 1953 and intended as a companion to Ellis Waterhouse 's Painting in Britain 1530–1830 and Margaret Whinney 's Sculpture in Britain which covers the same period . |
| 6 | After mulling over the idea for almost a year , Mr Chambers made the decision to leave Greenfield Human Resources — the agency he joined as a trainee in 1956 and left as a director — and set up on his own . |
| 7 | The OECD reported on March 29 , 1991 , that net disbursements of French official development assistance ( ODA ) to independent countries rose in 1989 as compared with 1988 by 11.9 per cent in real terms to the equivalent of US$5,200 million and increased as a share of gross national product ( GNP ) from 0.50 per cent in 1988 to 0.54 per cent in 1989 . |
| 8 | One of the reasons why Napoleon wished to retain close supervision of France 's foreign policy was his understanding of the difficulties which would arise once he began to probe the weaknesses of the European system established in 1815 and designed as a check to French ambition . |