Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Fans barracked Shreeves as the club slumped to a club record 11 home first division defeats and the club also experienced disappointment on the cup front . |
| 32 | [ This observation is in accord with the classic theological understanding of creation , which sees God as the ground and support of all that is ( in our terms , the guarantor of the Schrödinger equation ) but not as an object among objects ( no collapser of wavepackets ) . ] |
| 33 | The hon. Gentleman is right to identify Westminster as the seat of government . |
| 34 | Obviously , he sees Britain as the sweatshop of the world — he almost said as much — and , if we are unlucky enough to find him in office for more than a few more months , we may find ourselves taking the place previously occupied by the Soviet Union , as Upper Volta with rockets . |
| 35 | The summit was opened by Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam , who welcomed Namibia as the organization 's 51st member . |
| 36 | Jean Baudrillard , one of the leading commentators on postmodernist culture , sees America as the society where postmodernism has most fully developed . |
| 37 | He apparently sees Novell as the Grinch who will steal open systems . |
| 38 | Darwin had favoured Africa as the cradle of humankind , a view that was consistent with the link to the modern great apes . |
| 39 | ( After a complex series of name changes , Rover had replaced Leyland as the name of the whole company . ) |
| 40 | Melissa was shocked at the lack of sensitivity and promptly made up her mind to use Eleanor as the model for a future victim . |
| 41 | Her gaze followed Ellen as the girl moved about the room , straightening the crimson velvet bed curtains , placing another log on the fire . |
| 42 | The technology used in the RIOS 2 three-chip chipset — which IBM will use in upcoming Power Parallel machines ( UX No 422 ) — should re-establish IBM as the performance leader , says The Microprocessor Report , which estimates the thing will fetch around 100 SPECint92 . |
| 43 | The UK government yesterday set mid-July as the date for the sale of its remaining 22% holding in British Telecommunications Plc . |
| 44 | What the miracle is really saying is that the blind man recognises Jesus as the Messiah . |
| 45 | If Nature had replaced God as the power that had created the human race , the message derived from the new world view was still the same as far as most people were concerned . |
| 46 | The conference had been called by Kerekou following the ruling People 's Revolutionary Party ( PRPB ) agreement in December 1989 to abandon Marxism-Leninism as the country 's official ideology [ see p. 37115 ] , in response to mounting social dissent and with the country on the brink of economic collapse . |
| 47 | The national marketing team in London was thinking along the same lines as the Glasgow office on client care and so the decision was reached to use Glasgow as the pilot for a national client care programme |
| 48 | But it was Casaubon who fifty years later imposed Polybius as the expert in political life , as a far better guide than the fashionable Tacitus . |
| 49 | Also under discussion today will be the inclusion of Boblyn Tuavao — the Tongan forward who has replaced Grima as the club 's third overseas player — in the Widnes side which beat Barrow at Craven Park last Sunday . |
| 50 | Unionist associations passed resolutions of support and the Unionist press hailed Borden as the hero who had saved the empire . |
| 51 | He selected Whitehaven as the scene of his demonstration merely because he already knew its waters , though a reconnaissance revealed not a single large ship , much less any naval vessel , in the port , the 250 craft there being mainly small colliers or fishing boats . |
| 52 | They favoured ZOPFAN as the kind of indigenous initiative they had hoped to stimulate under the umbrella notion of collective security , but in the absence of clear agreement in ASEAN over neutralisation they were loath to become committed to a proposal which could be turned against themselves . |
| 53 | Ukraine has refused to recognise Russia as the successor in international accords to the Soviet Union , and is seeking a modification that would effectively turn START into a multilateral treaty . |
| 54 | Although in these studies the level of activity was not as high as originally reported , subsequent work by the eastern Cooperative Oncology Group established FAM as the regimen of first choice and showed a relatively low toxicity profile . |
| 55 | Erm , right , we 'll have Shirley as the client , and we 're a life company and we 're looking at the cost of providing Shirley with life cover . |
| 56 | As we have seen , C. S. Lewis , more clearly than most writers , has sensed the uniqueness of God-inspired desire and of having God as the object of desire . |
| 57 | France and Britain pursued a policy of non-intervention , but by February 1939 , both were forced to recognise Franco as the leader of Spain , and the civil war ended in March 1939 . |
| 58 | A communiqué issued on July 4 at the end of a five-day meeting of the central committee of the ruling Parti congolais du travail ( PCT ) announced agreement on wide-ranging political reforms , specifically ( i ) broadening membership of the party ; ( ii ) abandoning Marxism-Leninism as the ideology of the state ; ( iii ) separating the functions of party and state ; ( iv ) ending the one-party system ; and ( v ) strengthening existing mechanisms allowing for freedom of expression , of the press , and of association . |
| 59 | The cold war established America as the leader of the free world and the guardian of its values , while Europe was the timid child sheltering in its skirts . |
| 60 | The family were in London when William died aged sixty-five , on 12 June 1584 , and an eighteenth-century source records Epiphanius as the pupil of Richard Stevens ( died 1592 ) , one of the Southwark community of alien stone-carvers . |