Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen that in Wagon Mound they did not define the kind of damage necessary as property damage but distinguished between damage by fouling and fire damage . |
| 2 | At the back of my mind I was conscious of feeling very cold and of legs heavy as lead . |
| 3 | A comparison between the figures given in the table and similar figures for the period 1947–1964 suggests an increase of about 25 per cent. , virtually confined to Chichester and Rye Harbour gravel pits and clearly correlated with the increase of water available as digging progressed . |
| 4 | Michael and the survivors from HMS Antelope reached the safety of HMS Fearless as darkness was closing in as May 23 drew to a close . |
| 5 | Network SouthEast . 1986 saw the arrival of Chris Green as Sector director ( on 6 January ) and its dramatic re-launch six months later as Network SouthEast . |
| 6 | Trade marketing and customer service have been combined and have become the responsibility of Nicholas Frankish as director of trade marketing . |
| 7 | Refusing to accept dismemberment of his remaining territory , Wilfrid took himself into Mercia where he acted for King Aethelred as bishop of the Middle Angles ( HE , IV , 23 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 45 ) . |
| 8 | To counter the strong-running Yorktown forwards , the Manor defence was re-organised , and with Neil Pink as sweeper , the back four of Michael Hefferman , Michael Larkin , Jamie Minto and Chris Payne took full control . |
| 9 | Johnny McNichol came to Selhurst Park in March 1958 as Manager Cyril Spiers ' last desperate attempt to prevent the Palace from becoming founder members of the new national 4th Division , which was to be formed from the clubs in the bottom halves of the regional 3rd Divisions of 1957–58 . |
| 10 | It burst from its chrysalis in February 1992 as Cable & Wireless World , swiftly to reach such a high standard that the third edition , published in July , is a gold award winner . |
| 11 | Lehzen came to England , after service in the aristocratic family of von Marenholtz , in December 1819 as governess to Princess Féodore , daughter ( by her first marriage ) of Princess Victoria of Leiningen , since 1818 Duchess of Kent , to whom was born , shortly before Lehzen 's arrival , the future Queen Victoria . |
| 12 | The Fourth Council met at the Shrine of Asuryan and chose Caradryel of Yvresse , who was as different from Caledor II as night from day . |
| 13 | Mr. F.J. Norris , the Head of Modern Languages , had first come to the School , on teaching practice , in 1933 , and returned in January 1934 as Form Master of Junior A. He soon moved up into the Senior School . |
| 14 | He had been considered a de facto prime minister since his appointment in May 1990 as chair of an interministerial committee overseeing the economy [ see p. 37445 ] . |
| 15 | The CCC was set up in June 1990 as successor to the audiovisual training centre , Hatch End , which ran courses mainly for Third World students . |
| 16 | These three principles were originally spelt out in the working document with which this initiative was launched ( reproduced in Cmnd. 8616 as appendix 3 ) Each department was required to develop and define a plan which on completion was to be sent to the Treasury and the Management and Personnel Office ( MPO ) . |
| 17 | They know every track and ledge in the slag ; know how the rain has carved it into gulleys where now the snow lies deep as a crevasse ; know how the surface of the slag is in parts rotten as scree , an in others as hard as iron . |
| 18 | Six of the Council 's members , namely Kryuchkov , Maslyukov , Primakov , Shevardnadze , Yakovlev and Yazov , were full or candidate members of the CPSU central committee politburo , all of whom except Yakovlev held in addition ministerial or state posts ( although Primakov resigned on March 28 as Chair of the Soviet of the Union in connection with joining the Presidential Council ) . |
| 19 | There was further disruption in the Lok Sabha on Aug. 14 as Congress ( I ) members protested against events the previous day when BJP workers were alleged to have attacked Scindia 's house in New Delhi . |
| 20 | Tanzania 's President Ali Hassan Mwinyi was elected on Aug. 16 as chair of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ) party , with 1,846 out of 1,851 votes cast , in succession to the " elder statesman " leader Julius Nyerere , who had held on to the party chairmanship for five years since stepping down as state President in 1985 . |
| 21 | Just three hours after being sworn in to his new job on January 1st as governor of Rhode Island , the gravelly-voiced Mr Sundlun ordered the closure of 45 small banks and credit unions . |
| 22 | Michael Forsyth was dismissed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Sept. 7 as chair of the Scottish Conservative Party and at the same time was promoted from Under-Secretary of State to Minister of State at the Scottish Office . |
| 23 | The unrest began on May 5 as textile workers went on strike in support of a pay demand . |
| 24 | Boris Yeltsin , the leading radical populist and one of President Mikhail Gorbachev 's fiercest critics , was elected on May 29 as Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet , making him de facto President of the Russian Federation , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic . |
| 25 | Fleeing Momenta International Inc , where he was briefly chief executive officer , Apple Computer Inc 's erstwhile chief operations officer Delbert Yocam has gone to Tektronix Inc as president and chief operations officer . |
| 26 | Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada resigned on Oct. 27 as president of the right-wing Nationalist Revolutionary Movement ( MNR ) , and announced his withdrawal from the 1993 presidential election race . |
| 27 | Desmond Fostin resigned on Feb. 9 as Minster of Communications , Works and Transport and was replaced by Gregory Avril [ see p. 37822 ] . |
| 28 | Profit and Beghin reached the 8700 metre summit of the world 's second highest and , rated by many , hardest peak at 7pm on day three as night was falling , making route finding very tricky as they began the descent . |
| 29 | Rioting erupted in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 3 as news spread that a Palestinian detainee had been killed the previous day by soldiers . |
| 30 | The three-year collaboration on this multimedia workshop aims to create two prototype multimedia applications for various categories of visitors and to experiment with putting such applications on media such as CD-ROM and Compact Disk-Interactive . |