Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , however , I have to declare myself in favour of the general principle of a national curriculum , which has been described by Kenneth Baker as the central feature of the new Act . |
| 2 | A number of news agencies gave the French Minister of the Interior Philippe Marchand as the source for the report which they carried on Feb. 7 to the effect that Tedjini Haddam had left the five-member HCS in order to continue his duties as head of the Islamic Institute attached to the Paris mosque . |
| 3 | The singing actress , now 57 , plays Anna with Gandhi star Ben Kingsley as the King of Siam . |
| 4 | He was joined by Richard Van Allan as the Grand Inquisitor , and these two bass-baritones supplied the power and nobility which had been wanting . |
| 5 | ANDERS Limpar believes Graham Taylor should go for Alan Shearer and Ian Wright as the attacking force to give England renewed life after Gary Lineker . |
| 6 | Channel 4 sees the welcome return of comedienne Roseanne Barr as the hilarious , wise-cracking housewife and mother of three , Roseanne Corner , in the third series of America 's most popular sitcom . |
| 7 | This shift led to the return in 1892 of Keir Hardie as the first independent labour MP , and in 1898 of the first labour council in British electoral history . |
| 8 | Also , the performance of Ivor Novello as the impoverished hero whose charming vulnerability wins the hearts of all the girls , as well as that of a bored woman surrounded by too much luxury , and Cutts 's mobile camerawork , put it in another class . |
| 9 | The authorities ' earlier identification of Lembarek Boumaraaf as the assassin [ see p. 38981 ] was endorsed ; the commission confirmed that he had previously been known to be an Islamist sympathizer , but rejected as improbable the suggestion that he had acted alone . |
| 10 | Mario Soares , the recently re-elected President of Portugal , appointed Gen. Vasco Rocha Vieira as the new Governor of Macao on March 21 . |
| 11 | In January 1991 , on his re-election as President of Portugal , Soares appointed Gen. Vasco Rocha Vieira as the new Governor . |
| 12 | The crisis resulted in the appointment of S. Bangarappa as the new Chief Minister in place of Veerendra Patil [ see p. 37775 ] . |
| 13 | In 1064 , Harold sailed from Bosham ; a storm cast him up in Normandy where he was apparently tricked into giving his oath on saints ' bones to pledge support for Duke William as the next king of England . |
| 14 | OK , impressions play a big part in his stand up act ( his Ronnie Corbett as the Terminator in Vietnam is a classic ) , but he 's also invented a bunch of characters to rival the best of Harry Enfield . |
| 15 | He later realized that , as a child , Michael Ingram had been in The Little Beggars , a radio play that was his and Caryl Brahms 's first script to be performed , starring Alec McCowen , with David Hemmings as the child lead . |
| 16 | Perth 's What Every Woman Knows , directed by its new artistic director Andrew Mackinnon and also starring Andy Gray as the Scotsman on the make , John Shand , continues an association with Perth Theatre that began in 1955 . |
| 17 | Er I mean the er it 's er , course there are three orders that we are looking at tonight , it includes the er the third order er in relation not to boundaries but to the registration of overseas er voters to enable them to vote er in this , in this er election within U K constituencies and therefore that 's why the position that Mr David Robeddow as the chairman of Conservatives abroad er in Monte Carlo is relevant , er but also bec because of course the purpose of the European parliament for the first time as it will go through under these new boundaries , now is that they will be able to remedy some of that democratic deficit . |
| 18 | Sharing Coleman 's opinion of President Hafez Assad as the evil genius of state-sponsored terrorism , NALA had been formed to press for the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli troops from Lebanon and for the restoration of democracy under the aegis of General Michel Aoun , who , in September 1988 , had been appointed head of an interim military government in Beirut by outgoing President Amin Gemayel . |
| 19 | The turning point for him and the Soviet Union came in nineteen eighty five , when he succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as the General Secretary ; within one year , he 'd begun in earnest his reform programme , familiarising the world as well as his fellow Soviet citizens with words such as peristroika and glasnost . |
| 20 | A good example of Airdrie 's dogged persistence came when Alan Lawrence , looking far too frail to survive amid the Rangers defence , somehow wriggled clear of Oleg Kuznetsov on the right and flew the ball to the head of Owen Coyle , who headed high and away from Andy Goram as the goalkeeper twisted to his left . |
| 21 | A GRITTY , realistic approach to Vietnam with Burt Lancaster as the commanding officer becoming cynical about the war in 1964 , long before it became a media affair . |
| 22 | The secretary , David East , is now a figure of the distant past following his decision to resign his post over the way 10 Welsh players were recruited for the celebratory tour , and the Union still have to find a candidate to replace Rhys Williams as the junior vice-president . |
| 23 | But even this pales slightly in the face of Walton conducting , in the same series , the first-ever recorded version of Belshazzar 's Feast , featuring Dennis Noble as the incisive soloist , a wartime set that caused a sensation at the time . |
| 24 | In a rebuff to President Rafael Leonardo Callejas , the National Assembly in mid-September named Orlando Lozano Martínez as the new President of the Supreme Court after forcing the resignation of Oswaldo Ramos Soto . |
| 25 | Thus , a survey in November 1979 showed that 69 per cent preferred Edward Kennedy as the Democratic candidate for the presidency as compared to 31 per cent for Jimmy Carter . |
| 26 | The transitional government having resigned formally on June 5 , Konare named Younoussi Touré as the head of a new Cabinet . |
| 27 | Entitled ‘ Neil Kinnock — The Complete Picture ’ , this was an extremely explicit projection of Neil Kinnock as the Happy Heterosexual Family Man . |
| 28 | On Aug. 16 Rabbani , who was forced to postpone foreign visits to Iran and Pakistan due to the crisis , dismissed Prime Minister Abdul Sabur Fareed as the most senior Hezb-i-Islami member in the government and Hekmatyar 's personal nominee for the post . |
| 29 | The leader of the UNC , Basdeo Panday , who condemned the support given by the PNM for the government 's extension of the state of emergency was on Sept. 10 confirmed by President Noor Hassanali as the official Leader of the Opposition , a post he had held between 1976 and 1986 , as leader of the United Labour Front ( ULF ) , the then leading opposition party . |
| 30 | The chief acting honours , however , go to Jean Marsh as the tense but battle-hardened Miss Madrigal . |