Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of using d'Compress as the launch pad for other programs is that you can use the facilities of d'Compress to gather the files together , a stage that would otherwise have to be done in the DOS window . |
| 2 | Our principal exposure to the public arose from the chance that Her Majesty the Queen became interested and used Motability as the centre for her Christmas address in 1981 . |
| 3 | He also joins O'Leary as the Republic 's third most-capped player on 68 . |
| 4 | On Feb. 17 , 1990 , President Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria visited Banjul as the guest of honour for Gambia 's 25th independence anniversary celebrations . |
| 5 | He therefore called on the other three republics to accept Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union in this regard , and to delegate it to represent them over the START treaty and future negotiations . |
| 6 | they base Mrs as the villain of the peace . |
| 7 | People refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah and as a result they rejected his authority ( Mark 2:7 , 20 ; 3:22 ; 14:10–11 , 21 ; Matt. |
| 8 | Throughout the day the Hours of the Virgin celebrate Mary as the instrument of the Incarnation and intercessor for man with God but they also incorporate into this a daily memorial of Christ 's Passion in the appropriate verses of the hymn Patris Sapientia at each Canonical Hour . |
| 9 | ( Note that an Asus2 has the note A as the root , B as the second and E as the fifth ; an Esus4 chord , on the other hand , has E as the root , A as the sus4 and B as the fifth . ) |
| 10 | As late as 1950 , 10 per cent of a nation-wide opinion survey sample in West Germany regarded Hitler as the statesman who had achieved most for Germany — second only to Bismarck . |
| 11 | Journalists , desperate to break the story on the latest trend in designer drugs , are hyping Ketamine as the drug to take over from Ecstasy . |
| 12 | When it 's daylight in Leningrad and the buses and lorries are roaring along the wide Nevsky , and African delegates are being toasted at multi-course lunches at the Astoria , then it 's easy to see Leningrad as the birthplace of Communism . |
| 13 | Quotation three , for example , explicitly announces its mode by naming Nietzsche as the source of the proposition . |
| 14 | On April 16 Edouard Selami , a 30-year-old lawyer , was elected by DP delegates to replace Berisha as the party 's president . |
| 15 | The result had been as fresh-faced and direct as Hogarth 's Shrimp Girl and when the Queen was persuaded to choose Moynihan as the portraitist of Princess Elizabeth , she wanted the same quality as that found in Private Clarke . |
| 16 | The teenager was asked to look around the court and he said he thought he recognised Sutherland as the man . |
| 17 | In 1897 , the R&A 's governing role was formalised , as countries abroad recognised Scotland as the home of golf . |
| 18 | One of the rebel leaders , former Maj. Hugo Abete , who along with several of the other mutineers had also been pardoned by Menem for involvement in previous rebellions , claimed that as they still recognised Menem as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces their action could not be described as a " coup " . |
| 19 | A survey of graduate employers has selected Cambridge as the University producing the most employable graduates . |
| 20 | The Brahmin priests are the highest caste in the system of Hinduism and they worship Brahma as the founder of their religious system . |
| 21 | When someone there recognised Seb as the jockey who had won the previous year 's race at the Wychwood Forest Fair it created a sudden surge of interest and betting became very much brisker . |
| 22 | They actually take pride in promoting Britain as the sweatshop of Europe . |
| 23 | He knew Alice James would identify Drew as the man who had seen near Oliver 's shop just after six , covered in blood . |
| 24 | This is the only Gospel where Jesus proclaims Peter as the rock on which the Church is to be built ( Matt. |
| 25 | BIS Strategic Decisions ( see Information and Advice ) recently selected MARS as the best-performing , most reliable and easy-to-use imaging system available . |
| 26 | It uses Postscript as the transfer format , thus providing hardware independence . |
| 27 | When Kirk Douglas became a target for a drunkard in a bar who 'd seen Douglas as the boxer in Champion , Kirk merely slammed his hand on the bar and shouted , ‘ Anyone in this bar can lick me in a fight , ’ and the drunkard backed off . |
| 28 | A UNIQUE project could mark Liverpool as the country 's leader in school building trends . |
| 29 | India 's official census has revealed that its population can be expected to increase by 25 per cent by the year 2011 , surpassing China as the world 's most densely populated country . |
| 30 | In Russian , both Ivan videl Borisa and Borisa videl Ivan mean ‘ John saw Boris ’ , because -a marks Boris as the object , regardless of its position with respect to the subject and verb . |