Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] as the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have always understood , and believed , that you just can not " dance at two weddings ' , but I admired and respected Cochrane as the most efficient serving officer I had encountered in my short 33 years in uniform . |
| 2 | The advantage of using d'Compress as the launch pad for other programs is that you can use the facilities of d'Compress to gather the files together , a stage that would otherwise have to be done in the DOS window . |
| 3 | DEC and Microsoft , neither of whom could ever be accused of being the least bit friendly to Unix , look for all the world like they 're ganging up to try and kill it off once and for all , using NT-on-Alpha as the blunt instrument . |
| 4 | SNA communications house Systems Strategies Inc says it has designated UnixWare as the primary development platform for its new Express 2.0 Unix-to-IBM ( AS/400 and mainframe ) comms software . |
| 5 | Uniform start date to be Thursdays , and matches to include Saturday as the third day . |
| 6 | P.S. I assume Tertje was only referring to players that have *left* Leeds in his time as a supporter when naming Cuntona as the most important person to have filled a Leeds shirt . |
| 7 | The USA overtook Germany as the leading exporter of merchandise , with a 7.5 per cent rise in exports , and the USA was also the world 's biggest merchandise importer , with Germany second and Japan third in both categories . |
| 8 | Our principal exposure to the public arose from the chance that Her Majesty the Queen became interested and used Motability as the centre for her Christmas address in 1981 . |
| 9 | Back in the thirteenth century , Marco Polo described Bukhara as the finest city in all Persia and Tabriz as the most splendid city in the province ( of Iraq ) , neither of which corresponds to our contemporary understanding . |
| 10 | He also joins O'Leary as the Republic 's third most-capped player on 68 . |
| 11 | To establish LASMO as the most effective global pure exploration and production company . |
| 12 | On Feb. 17 , 1990 , President Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria visited Banjul as the guest of honour for Gambia 's 25th independence anniversary celebrations . |
| 13 | He therefore called on the other three republics to accept Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union in this regard , and to delegate it to represent them over the START treaty and future negotiations . |
| 14 | they base Mrs as the villain of the peace . |
| 15 | People refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah and as a result they rejected his authority ( Mark 2:7 , 20 ; 3:22 ; 14:10–11 , 21 ; Matt. |
| 16 | Throughout the day the Hours of the Virgin celebrate Mary as the instrument of the Incarnation and intercessor for man with God but they also incorporate into this a daily memorial of Christ 's Passion in the appropriate verses of the hymn Patris Sapientia at each Canonical Hour . |
| 17 | The Middle East International of Feb. 22 described Morocco as the " weakest link in the anti-Iraq coalition " . |
| 18 | President Izetbegovic , addressing a news conference later at the Dorchester Hotel , described Britain as the western country most opposed to lifting the arms embargo . |
| 19 | A modern version would have to include scenes of French farmers burning British lamb , Breton fishermen destroying Scottish-caught fish , French truckers blocking the autoroutes , last week 's French press announcing the official arrival of the recession in France , French anger over Hoover 's decision to switch production from Dijon to Glasgow and a Barclay 's survey revealing France as the most import-hostile country in the EC . |
| 20 | ( Note that an Asus2 has the note A as the root , B as the second and E as the fifth ; an Esus4 chord , on the other hand , has E as the root , A as the sus4 and B as the fifth . ) |
| 21 | Marlborough 's campaigns have commanded the admiration of military analysts ; his successes showed that Britain could conduct a war on land , and made it clear that the balance of power would be maintained and Louis XIV would not be able to establish France as the dominant power in western Europe in the way that had seemed probable in the 1680s . |
| 22 | Currently the course covers PostScript as the de facto standard for page description languages , and introduces ODA and SGML as examples of standards for structured documents and as a vehicle for illustrating how to derive multiple views of a document from a single logical description . |
| 23 | In the late Middle Ages the West Riding of Yorkshire , particularly the Leeds-Bradford area , emerged as a major centre of the woollen textile industry , as it was to remain , overtaking York as the major centre of the cloth trade in the North ( 82 , p.152 ) . |
| 24 | Lawrence described Pears as the most consistent goalkeeper in the Football League . |
| 25 | Richard Price described Bayes as the most ingenious man he ever knew , and William Whiston [ q.v. ] |
| 26 | As late as 1950 , 10 per cent of a nation-wide opinion survey sample in West Germany regarded Hitler as the statesman who had achieved most for Germany — second only to Bismarck . |
| 27 | Journalists , desperate to break the story on the latest trend in designer drugs , are hyping Ketamine as the drug to take over from Ecstasy . |
| 28 | In 1886 the President was Balfour Stewart , Tait 's collaborator ; the Vice-Presidents included the Bishops of Carlisle and of Ripon , A. J. Balfour , the future Prime Minister , Lord Rayleigh , the physicist — who had succeeded Maxwell as the Cavendish professor at Cambridge — as well as Sidgwick and other notables . |
| 29 | And Britain joins Switzerland as the only country that has approved the drug usually known as Cy-A , for use outside clinical trials . |
| 30 | When it 's daylight in Leningrad and the buses and lorries are roaring along the wide Nevsky , and African delegates are being toasted at multi-course lunches at the Astoria , then it 's easy to see Leningrad as the birthplace of Communism . |