Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] as [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers .
2 Even so , the use of the effects mix control as a second master volume doubles the Attax' versatility and that could suit the Top 40 player who needs to switch quickly between two levels .
3 Use extended memory , and load smartdrv as the first device driver in CONFIG.SYS after the HIMEM.SYS command line .
4 Axil also introduced an Open Look-based fax/modem package called AxilEnvoy as the first in a series of software products to provide added functionality such as voice mail , conversation record/playback , multimedia document support , security , image filtering and editing and optical character reading .
5 If there are many siblings who must compete for the mother 's favours , and if no one of them can exclude the others , each will probably demand equality as the next best thing to preference , and most definitely as the best way of preventing the preference of others .
6 the continuing need for special provision for teaching English as a second language .
7 One element of this was teaching English as a Second Language ( ESL ) to ethnic minority workers but the two-way nature of communication was recognised in the accompanying training for management , training staff and trades unionists .
8 Centres for teaching English as a second language ( CE2L ) are separate schools that have been set up by a few LEAs .
9 It was no coincidence that the majority of the French delegates were members of the little-known Le Societe Pereire , which sought to recognise Pereire as the first teacher of the deaf in that country — Pereire being a man who practised teaching by the oral method .
10 To decide whether they really are learning Creole as a second language , we need information about at least two areas : ( 1 ) the age of acquisition ; ( 2 ) the nature of the process of acquisition itself .
11 What I will say in answer to the question is that I personally always use hypnosis as the first stage of any regression session .
12 According to contemporary writers , and repeated regularly ever since then , Piper had already gained fame as the first European to have been behind the Great Wall of China .
13 Lloyd George saw ill-health as the next major problem to be tackled .
14 Exactly 100 years ago on 1 January , 1883 , Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers took office as the first Inspector of Ancient Monuments .
15 He could accept self-determination and advance the prospects of a political settlement without burning his boats with the army — to whom he presented association as the first step towards a real , consensual integration — and without seeming to capitulate or feeling that he was capitulating to the FLN .
16 If the softly spoken Welshman is making history as the first rugby man to conquer soccer , he will not be the last .
17 The report , published in 1991 , uncovered statistical evidence that children who spoke English as a second language were heavily over-represented in the two most acute categories of special needs schools in the region 's Glasgow district .
18 They adopted French Christian names , often spoke French as a first language , were educated at French schools and frequently sent their children to French universities .
19 Three signers were presented as illustrations : a deaf man ( signer 1 ) , a hearing man with eight years ' experience ( signer 2 ) and a hearing man whose parents were deaf and who learned BSL as a first language ( signer 3 ) .
20 Given trust as a first condition , the changes which followed each stage of review , assessment and evaluation came more easily — even if it did mean that some criticisms had first to be voiced and discussed ( JM Dobson conversation , 1990 ) .
21 He also made history as the first judicial nominee to be confirmed without the recommendation of the Senate judiciary committee , which held confirmation hearings on Sept. 10-27 , but deadlocked seven to seven when it finally voted on the motion to recommend the nomination , and then voted 13 to one to pass along the nomination to the entire Senate with no recommendation .
22 A boat called Dodo 's Delight sailed out of Falmouth harbour this week … on board a crew of old boys from Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire … they 're off to make history as the first school group to sail around the world … they 'll be gone for twenty months … so we 're waving them goodbye in our Friday Feature
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