Example sentences of "stand [adv prt] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The National Security Court was abolished and President Mohammed Siyad Barre was obliged to stand down as chairman of the ruling Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party ( SRSP ) , the constitution preventing him from holding both posts . |
| 2 | Earlier , on July 12 , Saibou had announced that he would stand down as chairman of the National Movement for a Development Society ( the sole party until the legalization of opposition parties in March ) , saying that he had decided to place himself above party politics . |
| 3 | However , Gen. José Dante Caridi , who had stood down as Army Chief of Staff after the rebellion , immediately denied the existence of any such deal ( as did his successor , Gen. Francisco Gassino , who warned that he would respond firmly to any further mutinies ) and accused Seineldin of excessive nationalism and fundamentalism and of being involved in a group of Army conspirators which had been in existence for 25 years . |
| 4 | The contest was won by Kent Conrad , a Democrat who had stood down as Senator for North Dakota in 1992 in line with a promise not to serve more than one term unless the federal deficit was significantly reduced . |
| 5 | Pavel Zhikarev , who stood down as chairman after 25 years at Sberbank , laid the foundations for the changes that lie ahead . |
| 6 | Chief executive Gerald Ratner stood down as chairman last week , and was replaced by former Coats Viyella deputy chairman Jim McAdam . |