Example sentences of "as [art] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This earned George Mackenzie national fame as the first prelingually deaf person to achieve the distinction of MA Cantab . |
| 2 | Four years later , in the summer of 1953 , the BBC broadcast The Quatermass Experiment , a six part serial by Nigel Kneale , and a landmark as the first popularly accepted science fiction production . |
| 3 | As the economic conditions in many areas became more desperate and the existing ruling élites seemed less and less able or willing to take corrective measures , radical domestic reform , external aggression and colonial possessions were seen by some of the rural poor as the only positively proposed solution to their ills . |
| 4 | Novelty value as the only ever goalkeeping sim , but even the ‘ hand of God ’ could n't save it . |
| 5 | Some theorists regard the discipline it imposes as the only truly effective constraint on managerial discretion and therefore consider its operation to be crucial to the efficiency of the private enterprise economy . |
| 6 | Ibrahim was widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the Maldives , after his brother-in-law , President Gayoom . |
| 7 | In the years when Hartley was building Albert Dock and other extensions of the system , Liverpool was rapidly becoming established as the second most important port in Britain , and Albert Dock , which has outlived its usefulness , stands as a monument both to Hartley and to Liverpool 's Victorian prosperity . |
| 8 | The rubber industry was badly affected by the depression of the 1930s , but its position as the second most important export was not threatened . |
| 9 | The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency . |
| 10 | The new report also casts doubt on the importance of methane , usually cited as the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide . |
| 11 | The Wilhelmshaven dockyard had been , in its day , the largest naval yard in Europe , and is likely to go down as the largest purely naval yard in history . |
| 12 | Databases remain the number one concern for the second year running , whilst Unix standards are listed as the 8th most important issue , compared with their showing at 19th position last year . |
| 13 | He was a champion of 19th century book illustration , which he regarded as the last relatively unexplored corner of the English artistic tradition . |
| 14 | The poll also shows that the communist-led Leftist Unity party — capitalising on the high jobless rate and union unrest — is expected to nearly double its vote from 4.6 percent to 8.7 percent , replacing Adolfo Suarez 's centrist party as the third most powerful force in Spanish politics . |
| 15 | Although the Soviet Union had become the major influence on revolutionary socialist movements since 1917 , the Communist International had always looked upon Germany as the next most likely centre for a proletarian revolution . |
| 16 | ESA 's decision on ISO will probably toll the knell for the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility , which many American astronomers have seen as the next most important project for the 1990s after AXAF . |
| 17 | Guns and Killing magazine currently rate her as the sixth most dangerous solo outlaw in the Americas , and she is the highest-ranked woman on the list , coming in at thirty-seven places above the Antarctic esperado Ice Kold Katie . |
| 18 | Nearly 1,000 of the world 's 9,700 bird species are threatened with extinction , with the destruction of habitats being regarded as the single most serious threat to their survival ; 43 per cent of the threatened birds live in tropical forests , for example . |
| 19 | ‘ In addition , the performance of the Ladybird Disney range must rate as the single most dramatic development in children 's book retailing over the past 12 months . ’ |
| 20 | If the questions that come to PFK are any indication , compatibility problems with marine fish must rate as the single most difficult area to master and overcome . |
| 21 | Best himself seems to have few doubts as to why he got the nod , citing the growing importance of the Divisional Championship as the single most important factor in his — and England 's — meteoric rise . |
| 22 | For example , the home situation may be seen as the single most important factor ‘ causing ’ the child 's behaviour problems . |
| 23 | In his analysis Atkin ( 1979 ) points to the ‘ fragmentation of community ’ as the single most important factor feeding accountability pressures in the USA . |
| 24 | If we are right in regarding it as the single most important area in which independence is prized and which also causes major distress for carers , it seems clear that it should be a priority in health and social services provision . |
| 25 | As also has been found for the other two scales , however , the inner city problem has become much more evident over the past decade since the deteriorating situation prompted central government to introduce more comprehensive powers in the 1978 Inner Urban Areas Act , to the extent that it was identified by the Prime Minister as the single most important challenge for the new Parliament after the 1987 General Election . |
| 26 | They glow in the dark so can be used as a practical yet fashionable way of making drivers aware of children in the dark . |
| 27 | Alejandro Mayta the revolutionary theorist who heads for the hills in the hope of joining a mass uprising comes over finally as a misguided almost pathetic figure . |
| 28 | Played by Philip Casnoff , Sinatra emerges as a powerful yet controversial figure . |
| 29 | As a fifth more radical possibility , might consumers be empowered by the professional care givers of an athenian local state and seek to opt out of the traditional services — persuading providers or purchasers to contract for alternatives ? |
| 30 | This material foundation for 18th century culture is marked as a marginal yet important presence in the country-house portrait itself , in for instance Angelica Kauffman 's ‘ Henry Loftus . |