Example sentences of "[num] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her monograph , The Metabolism of Fat , published in 1943 as the first of Methuen 's monographs in biochemistry , summarized her views on the field , in which she was by then a recognized authority . |
| 2 | Several quote 70 as the upper age limit for voluntary and statutory committees and the like . |
| 3 | Ian Woosnam fired a two-under-par 70 as the rain-hit Malaysian Open got underway in Kuala Lumpur yesterday . |
| 4 | President Carter should have sought to spring the US hostages from Iran in 1980 as the only logical outcome of his life as a peanut farmer in Georgia or a president of the United States . |
| 5 | On this last point they were reassured by the Governor 's mention of December 1948 as the outside date for this . |
| 6 | Started in 1935 as the Central Council for Recreative Physical Training , it remains , in spite of the many changes in social attitudes and lifestyle since its inception , a major force in sport and recreation in the UK . |
| 7 | The Rover Group emerged in 1986 as the old BL was split up , then British Aerospace stepped in to buy Rover . |
| 8 | Standard-setting for central government is almost entirely the responsibility of the Treasury , taking the Exchequer and Audit Department Act 1866 as the statutory basis . |
| 9 | He then quotes the entry corresponding to the year 839 ( 838 according to Husameddin ) from the chronological list in Nuruosmaniye 3080 concerning the death of " sultan al- " ulema Muhammad Shah Pasha " and concludes that the person concerned is in fact Molla Fenari himself and not his son , thus arriving at 838/1434–5 as the correct death date for Molla Fenari . |
| 10 | Intercontinent attempted to develop the PC-5 as the simplified PC-6 but this lost a wing in early test flights , killing the test-pilot Jack O'Meara . |
| 11 | The FoE study , published in October 1985 as The Final Report : Tree Dieback Survey , was based on 1,638 beech trees and 1,546 yews at over 700 sites . |
| 12 | Moreover , smoother driving is as much a characteristic of Tempo 30 as the lower overall speeds , as Döldissen has shown ( Figure 6.30 ) . |
| 13 | She emerged from the War of the Grand Alliance in 1697 as the greatest of European naval powers ; and this position she never lost . |
| 14 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 15 | Mino Martinazzoli , 61 , a former Justice and Defence Minister from the northern town of Brescia , was elected on Oct. 12 as the new secretary of the Christian Democrat ( DC ) party in succession to Arnaldo Forlani , who had remained in office in a caretaker capacity since his resignation in June . |
| 16 | After interminable waiting , he accompanied Gilbert to Newfoundland in 1583 , witnessed Gilbert 's actions there , and survived various disasters , culminating in the loss of Gilbert at sea , to bring his ship home in September 1583 as the sole vessel to survive the expedition . |
| 17 | Harris came to York in 1963 as the first lecturer appointed to the English Department by the founding professor Philip Brockbank . |
| 18 | The museum is housed in the oldest public museum building in the country , opened in 1683 as the original Ashmolean Museum . |
| 19 | Zhu Senlin , hitherto Canton city party secretary , was appointed on May 10 as the new acting governor of Guangdong province . |
| 20 | The ultimate authority for the doctrine stems from the acceptance by the people of William III as the new monarch , and the acceptance by the courts of the new legal order founded on this doctrine as expressed legally in the common law . |
| 21 | The Trades Union Congress of 1927 enforced the disaffiliation of local Trades Councils from the Minority Movement , formed in 1924 as the British branch of the Red International of Labour Unions . |
| 22 | The JNA took control of Petrinja ( 50 km south of Zagreb ) and other towns during heavy fighting on Sept. 21-22 as the French government requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council . |
| 23 | That success led the Newmanites further into electoral politics , where they finally emerged in 1979 as the neutral-sounding New Alliance Party . |
| 24 | Only the north side of the scheme was carried out in 1825–6 as the Privy Council Offices and the Board of Trade , and it was at the Treasury 's instigation that Seward in 1833 produced a scheme to house various governmental offices in a block on the south side of the street , following Soane 's lines . |
| 25 | It was billed in May , 1849 as the Grand Cricket Match at Durham between 11 of All-England and 22 of the Durham Club . |
| 26 | ‘ We have explained how we would run the competition if it is awarded to us and proposed June 1995 as the ideal date . |
| 27 | The senior component of what became The East Surrey Regiment under the 1881 Cardwell Reforms had been raised in Huntingdonshire in 1702 as The 31st Regiment of Foot . |
| 28 | It is proposed to take the seven functions of budgets on pages 49/50 as the first dimension of a matrix structure to which either the rational economic or a political model can be applied in order to form the second dimension . |
| 29 | The Democratic Republic of Madagascar ( known until December 1975 as the Malagasy Republic ) achieved full independence from France in June 1960 . |
| 30 | The Democratic Republic of Madagascar ( known officially until 1975 as the Malagasy Republic ) achieved independence from France in 1960 . |