Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the twentieth century as a whole , the variations in solar irradiance implied by the analyses are within the bounds of possibility . |
| 2 | Consider using an outside potential purchaser for the first meeting as a trial run . |
| 3 | In 1944 , under the impetus of a wave of strikes in the mines , the British Trotskyist movement was united for the first time as the Revolutionary Communist Party , anticipating the imminent collapse of capitalism in the West and Stalinism in Russia . |
| 4 | ‘ Refreshing , ’ she euphemistically called the British climate she was about to face for the first time as a ‘ star ’ . |
| 5 | As Doohan built up a lead of almost seven seconds , Rainey settled for second place on his Yamaha , 12 seconds clear of third-placed Daryl Beattie , of Australia , riding a Rothmans Honda for the first time as a replacement for the injured Wayne Gardner . |
| 6 | Germany outstripped Britain for the first time as the largest contributor last year . |
| 7 | In Britain , David Lloyd George was succeeded as Prime Minister by Mr A. Bonar-Law , who headed a Conservative Government with the Labour Party for the first time as a formidable opposition . |
| 8 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 9 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 10 | There are promotions for David Hunt to the employment department , for Gillian Shephard to agriculture and for John Redwood , the Thatcherite and cerebral local-government minister who joins the cabinet for the first time as Welsh secretary . |
| 11 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 12 | The book is published now for the first time as a result of scholarly study by Steve Joshua Heims of the cybernetics group of the late 1940s . |
| 13 | It was therefore at the next Congress in August 1959 in Wiesbaden , Germany , that the BDDA participated for the first time as a member country with an official delegation of ten : Dr Eric Greenaway . |
| 14 | But most of all , they have the determination to put their name on the trophy for the first time as a tribute to club president George Blower who tragically died at the end of a league game almost four weeks ago . |
| 15 | Thus competition is singled out for the first time as the chosen mechanism for ensuring the public interest . |
| 16 | Nissan sponsored the championships for the first time as part of its community relations work . |
| 17 | Group sales exceeded £10 billion for the first time as the Group served over ten million customers each week . |
| 18 | MacRae dismissed his case notes for the third stage as ‘ rubbish ’ . |
| 19 | UniSQL 's unified relational object-oriented DBMS UniSQL/X , which manages multimedia data and device support , has been used by MIT for the last year as an enabling technology . |
| 20 | Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home . |
| 21 | Tony is er Professor of Economics at Cambridge and is a world renowned luminary in economic circles and er he 's , he 's here for the next week as a special professor and er is giving a number of lectures er most of which are open to , to all , to all students and he is a very famous economist , very clever chap you know if you can get to see him I , I 'd reco I 'd recommend it erm presuma there may be a sort of programme of his visit stuck up on the student notice boards erm , if there is n't er he 's giving a , a lecture tomorrow two o'clock in B seventy four and that 's , that 's if , he is going to be talking to the M A students er taking Economic Development and Policy Analysis and his topic there is comparing income inequality and poverty in Europe erm so if you , you know , if you are free tomorrow at two it just might be interesting to go along to , feel free to go to B seventy four tomorrow at two o'clock . |
| 22 | Recovery in the UK gathered momentum during the second quarter as the UK portfolio continued to respond positively to action on rates and operating costs . |
| 23 | The present psychiatric services have to work with many large old hospitals that were built during the nineteenth century as lunatic asylums . |
| 24 | Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement . |
| 25 | Schoenberg described the Mahler of the Ninth Symphony as a man ‘ at home with spiritual coolness ’ , which is something that Karajan , as an interpreter of Mahler 's music , undoubtedly understood . |
| 26 | William Riley Parker 's monumental biography of Milton , which appeared after a lifetime 's research in 1968 , resolutely portrays Milton 's involvement with the politics of the mid-seventeenth century as an unfortunate distraction . |
| 27 | I believe that in 100 years people will look back on the middle of the twentieth century as a nightmare period when mankind suddenly discovered the means to destroy itself , and was seriously considering using this as a preferable alternative to reconciling differing political views . |
| 28 | It did not only transform the political and military map : by the destruction which it wrought , unparalleled in previous human history in its scale , it hurled a black question mark against the confidence in the onward and upward progress of Christian civilisation which had so strongly characterised Liberal Theology , and forced the bitter question whether the advanced theological thought of the nineteenth century as a whole had not been far too unaware of the darker side of human nature , too optimistic about innate human capacity for good , too willing to take contemporary culture at its own high evaluation of itself , and overall too disposed to take God for granted , and to assume that he was somehow simply ‘ given ’ in what it regarded as the highest ethical , spiritual and religious values of mankind . |
| 29 | According to their account , the professional-managerial class started to develop towards the end of the nineteenth century as a class which specialized in the ‘ reproduction of capitalist class relations ’ became necessary . |
| 30 | Middlesbrough developed in the middle of the nineteenth century as a coal port and then as a major centre of steel and chemical production . |