Example sentences of "[num] as [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel , who dialled 999 as his mother struggled for her life , will be a given a new start , cut off from 55-year-old Horbury . |
| 2 | dozen as me mam 'd say , bless her , but er |
| 3 | ‘ Thank goodness , it 's almost dark , ’ thought Mildred , tagging on to the end of form three as their form-mistress counted them all . |
| 4 | I 've been doing research that 's been inspired by the work of Marie Hoader , who 's Emeritus Professor at the university , a social psychologist , and she had researched unemployment back in the nineteen thirties ; she studied an Austrian village called Mariental , where practically everybody was unemployed , and late in the nineteen seventies as our group began raising questions about the future of work , she engaged in a review of the research between the thirties and the seventies to see if things had changed . |
| 5 | On May 2 Arpad Göncz was elected by 339 votes to 31 as its Speaker and thus as interim President of the Hungarian Republic , pending a decision by the Assembly on how presidential elections should be held later in the year . |
| 6 | He told conference delegates he had been asked by the BNFL board and the Government to continue in his post for a short period after March 31 as his successor — John Guinness , currently Permanent Secretary in the DoE — could not easily be released from that post until after the general election . |
| 7 | A Convention , similar to that in England , which met in Edinburgh on 14 March 1689 , eventually decided to offer William the throne , though many Scots , especially the chieftains in the Highlands where the old religion remained strong , still regarded James II as their king , and others , not necessarily Catholic , saw in the dispossessed Stuarts the best hope of regaining Scotland 's lost independence . |
| 8 | Steve continued with us in One until the following March , when he crossed the Atlantic to play for Vancouver Whitecaps for a couple of seasons , but he joined the Palace for a third time in the summer 1981 as our Youth Coach and was then appointed Manager in mid-November , charged with keeping the side in Division Two , following relegation from Division One . |
| 9 | Jane Archer 2.32 ; Colin Richer 2.34 ; Paul Frindle 2.35 ; Terry Rivers 2.39 ; Steve Wade 2.56 ; Maurice Young 2.56. completed the Portsmouth British Wheelchair half-marathon in a personal best time of 1.25.41 as his training intensifies for the London Marathon . |
| 10 | When the process is well established , it is found that ( with n = 4 as our model ) the element unc becomes approximately unc in |
| 11 | The company is touting Compete 5 as its answer to Improv , but it did n't look a patch on the Lotus product . |
| 12 | Upson was one of the main sufferers of the Aintree shambles on April 3 as his horse , Zeta 's Lad , was strongly fancied to win the race . |
| 13 | Gradually drop to a factor 10 or 8 and then 6 as your tan develops throughout your holiday . |
| 14 | The Northamptonshire batsmen blasted exactly 200 off just 210 balls in a stay of nearly four hours , hitting 28 fours and two sixes as his side piled up 335 for two from 86 overs . |
| 15 | Start your holiday with a factor 10 or 15 and , over a two-week period , gradually decrease to factor 6 or 8 as your tan develops . |
| 16 | 8 As your partner is reading , listen carefully . |
| 17 | Moreover , passive margins have assumed great economic significance since the 1960s as their hydrocarbon potential has begun to be extensively exploited by the oil industry . |
| 18 | I had served Churchill for ten years and for four as his Chancellor , but he told me later ‘ I went for the older man . ’ |
| 19 | Lady Jane Grey was nominated by King Edward VI as his successor — she was married to the son of the Duke of Northampton . |
| 20 | At the London School of Economics the students had occupied the premises in February 1967 as their struggle intensified . |