Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 2 | However , the PCI retained its position as the second-largest party . |
| 3 | In elections to the 183-seat Nationalrat ( lower house of parliament ) on Oct. 7 the Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) retained its position as the largest single party . |
| 4 | The most significant political event of the 12 months to June 1991 was the October 1990 general election in which the SPÖ retained its position as the largest single party , the ÖVP registered its worst result since 1945 , and the main beneficiary was the FPÖ [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 5 | It described her marriage as the ‘ most famous and most disgraced ’ in the world . |
| 6 | The assumption , which the project sets out to test , is that the State is increasingly withdrawing from the business of providing services but strengthening and widening its role as the regulator of services produced by others in the private and voluntary sectors . |
| 7 | On May 13 Don W. Wilson — who , as the head of the National Archives and Records Administration , was generally accepted as the custodian of the Constitution — declared his support for the validity of the measure and stated that he was preparing to certify its adoption as the 27th Amendment . |
| 8 | Throughout the black ‘ homelands ’ and adjacent African territories of modern Southern Africa the station continues to bear its reputation as the beginning of the migrant trail to labour in the ‘ white ’ economy . |
| 9 | Vanguard was breaking up and its supporters were either rejoining the Unionist Party or moving to Paisley 's DUP , which was consolidating its position as the more militant and more populist loyalist party . |
| 10 | Instead he used her remark as the perfect occasion for a quarrel . |
| 11 | Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo retained his position as the Front 's secretary in charge of political affairs , while Capt. Gilbert Diendere was reappointed secretary in charge of defence and security . |
| 12 | Since the mid-1980s he has produced some thirteen books of aerial photography , consolidating his position as the world 's leading exponent of such work . |
| 13 | LIVERPUDLIAN professional golfer Karl ‘ Hitman ’ Woodward ( 42 ) , was today aiming to establish his claim as the longest driver in the world . |
| 14 | The result on March 14 could well hinge on the boots of Stabler and his Newcastle rival David Johnson , whose 28 points on Saturday maintained his position as the country 's leading points scorer . |
| 15 | Although no clear winner emerged from the debate , most commentators believed that Clinton had performed well enough to consolidate his position as the leading contender . |
| 16 | He caught his breath as the black fringes of her lashes swept upwards and the golden eyes met his . |
| 17 | Windows has thousands , whereas OS/2 seems to be bereft of the kind of volume of applications that would signal it acceptance as the standard operating system . |
| 18 | ( Another member of the Russell family , Lord Charles , used his influence as the Queen 's Serjeant-at-Arms to get William Hale White 's father the position of Door-Keeper to the House of Commons . ) |
| 19 | I got the impression he regarded his editorship as the high point of his life . |
| 20 | In spite of Amritsar , he announced himself willing to co-operate with the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms which were unveiled at the end of the year , and only changed his mind as the degree of Dyer 's support in British public opinion was borne in upon him , and as he began to find himself isolated by the more radical elements in Congress , who had either already lost their faith in the British , or had never had any . |
| 21 | We have been able to consolidate our position as the major private label breakfast cereal supplier to the French market and enjoy further growth in other European markets . |
| 22 | Our opinion , they would have set it up , used your national as the contract man . ’ |
| 23 | The nineteenth century was to see its status as the language of diplomacy grow still further as it became even more a symbol of some underlying European unity which , however vague , was genuinely felt to exist by most of those who decided the continent 's destinies . |
| 24 | However , this year Mildred was older and hopefully wiser ( at any rate she was more full of good intentions than ever ) and she was quite determined to lose her reputation as the worst witch in the school . |
| 25 | Under new proposals expected to be brought in by the IAAF , starters are likely to lose their power as the final judges of what is a false start . |
| 26 | Imaging their amazement as the single peach on the tree grows to enormous proportions and James climbs aboard for the journey of a lifetime . |
| 27 | ‘ A very challenging and exciting time lies ahead for Magnus and I am confident of maintaining its position as the ‘ investors ’ choice . |
| 28 | Around this time , the scalp 's sebaceous glands start producing less of the oil that provides healthy shine , and hair begins to lose its hue as the production of melanin ( the pigment that also colours skin and eyes ) slows down . |
| 29 | She ran her tongue nervously over her lips , tasting the honey-coral lipgloss she 'd applied carefully in an effort to banish her image as the ingenuous young art student , fresh from college . |
| 30 | Industrialists exploited their workers , and western nations exploited the rest of the world — but those who succeeded in the struggle were only too willing to see their success as the driving force of progress . |