Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ A very challenging and exciting time lies ahead for Magnus and I am confident of maintaining its position as the ‘ investors ’ choice . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Crossman joined Ambrose 's Embassy Club Orchestra in 1926 , some years before the band made its name as the finest jazz group in Europe . |
| 13 | The report on the dedication of this memorial in the Loughborough Church for the Deaf by the Bishop of Leicester is printed in the first number of The British Deaf News , which made its debut as the BDDA 's official organ in January 1955 . |
| 14 | Peter White , Managing Director of British Airways Cargo , comments : ‘ Air cargo is increasingly proving its worth as the premier mode of distribution , especially as more companies practice ‘ Just-In-Time ’ inventory controls . |
| 15 | By his death , the membership had doubled , the MCC was developing its role as the judicious lawgiver of the game , and there were many more cleaner-cut fixtures , with schools and the universities , for example . |
| 16 | And , from 1911 to 1919 , it secured its position as the women artists ' association in Germany , it got funding from the state , became fully accepted as an association , and continued its activities for furthering the professionalism of women . |
| 17 | The rescue service , which describes its staff as the ‘ new knights of the road , ’ boasts women alone should only have to wait 20 minutes . |
| 18 | Latin began to regain its status as the medium for elegant communication , science was being relegated to ‘ a small , odd , insignificant band of professionals ’ , while the Royal Society , abandoning the rather splendid hope that scientific language could provide a model for cultural discourse , was becoming influenced by dilettantism , and correspondingly less practical in its aims . |
| 19 | It is that the Fund , through lack of accountability , has failed over the past year to fulfil its function as the main conduit for aid to Russia . |
| 20 | IF THE space station dies , or is substantially slimmed down , the Superconducting Super Collider ( SSC ) , under construction in Ellis County , Texas , will claim its title as the biggest science project . |
| 21 | The Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) , which represented the bulk of the former Communist Party , with 16.1 per cent of the vote and 107 seats , confirmed its position as the leading opposition party and therefore figured prominently in the discussions on the formation of a new governing coalition . |
| 22 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 23 | For Pickford The Eternal Grind was a step towards her true screen self , which she was to discover most fully in The Poor Little Rich Girl of 1917 , a film which satirized the rich whilst it confirmed its star as the richest actress in the world . |
| 24 | At the time , Sydney was essentially a centre created around a convict population , yet eager to assert its status as the commercial and cultural capital of the continent . |
| 25 | Environmentalists dubbed it a failure for this reason , but acknowledged its importance as the first occasion on which all major world governments had agreed that global warming was a reality . |
| 26 | This view of language brings philology to life for Julia ; she suddenly sees its object as the product of individual creativity . |
| 27 | The enlightened Baptist minister Robert Robinson in Cambridge denounced the trade as an encroachment on natural rights and envisaged its end as the result of a general offensive , congenial to Rational Dissenters , making ‘ the natural connection between civil and religious liberty ’ . |
| 28 | By the Welland St. Wilfrid built St. Leonard 's Priory , a masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon architecture , befitting its status as the first religious house in all Mercia . |
| 29 | ‘ The BBC must therefore have a clear vision if it is to retain its role as the cornerstone of British broadcasting and continue to command respect and admiration in Britain and throughout the world . |
| 30 | The BBC must therefore have a clear vision if it is to retain its role as the cornerstone of British broadcasting and continue to command respect and admiration in Britain and throughout the world . |