Example sentences of "[verb] as [art] [num ord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Databases remain the number one concern for the second year running , whilst Unix standards are listed as the 8th most important issue , compared with their showing at 19th position last year . |
| 2 | Ibrahim was widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the Maldives , after his brother-in-law , President Gayoom . |
| 3 | He was a champion of 19th century book illustration , which he regarded as the last relatively unexplored corner of the English artistic tradition . |
| 4 | That counts as a second home . |
| 5 | ESA 's decision on ISO will probably toll the knell for the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility , which many American astronomers have seen as the next most important project for the 1990s after AXAF . |
| 6 | The following year was billed as the last ever and saw Steel Pulse canned off after 15 minutes by a typically broad-minded Stranglers crowd and Black Sabbath playing in front of an unfinished replica of Stonehenge . |
| 7 | erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar . |
| 8 | The new report also casts doubt on the importance of methane , usually cited as the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide . |
| 9 | However , the company 's activities may already have done irreversible damage to the park , which has been identified as the second most important in the world for bird life , with 10 per cent of all species . |
| 10 | The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency . |
| 11 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |
| 12 | Leeds is emerging as the second most important financial centre in England . |
| 13 | In the years when Hartley was building Albert Dock and other extensions of the system , Liverpool was rapidly becoming established as the second most important port in Britain , and Albert Dock , which has outlived its usefulness , stands as a monument both to Hartley and to Liverpool 's Victorian prosperity . |
| 14 | Ben now agrees with Continental opinion that his route Agincourt at Buoux , heralded as the first ever 8c , was actually preceded by Gullich 's Wall Street in Germany . |