Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] as the " in BNC.

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1 The tournament starts on Monday and world No 2 Graf starts as the logical favourite to win following Seles 's withdrawal .
2 This Barth saw as the irreplaceable basis of Christian theology ; and , he insisted , once it had been recognised , there could be no possible reason for casting around in other directions , and certainly not for turning theology back into the contemplation of our own spiritual navels , or for blunting the challenge and promise of the gospel by seeking to reinterpret or ‘ improve ’ it in the terms of some alternative ( and therefore competing ) theological or philosophical frame of reference .
3 The period from 1 914 to 1933 Spalding identifies as the expansive and explosive period .
4 The 88000 Slater described as the most highly integrated of early RISC implementations with a very clean architecture and no major warts , except perhaps the combined integer-floating point register file .
5 He was scragged by Mike Budd , Jeremy Cooper came away with the ball , Owain Williams acted as the link , and Kevin Ellis scored : three back-row forwards and their scrum-half in perfect harmony .
6 Between 1690 and 1870 London emerged as the world centre for financial , insurance , and commodity markets .
7 On July 7 the small Hural had been disbanded to make way for the Great Hural to act as the country 's new single-chamber legislative body .
8 Fat Vince doubles as the popular and permissive assistant-manager of a snooker hall in Victoria .
9 Various reserves in Java and Sumatra were assessed for their suitability , with Way Kambas National Park in southern Sumatra emerging as the most likely candidate .
10 There used to be a polled breed in southern Devon known as the Devon Natts and also a Somerset Poll .
11 Group-led projects included the subsurface mapping of the Northumberland , Solway and northern Stainmore basins as the first phase of a rolling programme of overview studies of the Upper Palaeozoic basins of the United Kingdom .
12 Speculation continues that New Zealander Sir Ron Brierley is planning to sell his controlling stake , with takeover-threatened Unigate emerging as the most likely buyer .
13 LENNOX LEWIS last night lined up a world title fight with Norwich-based Herbie Hide as the cat-and-mouse game over the heavyweight championship took a new twist .
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