Example sentences of "[noun prp] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By an editor 's mistake we described ( March 17th ) the drug baron Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha as the Colombian government 's main surviving enemy . |
| 2 | I still regard ITN as the premier television news operation in this country . |
| 3 | At the same time as the appointment on July 10 , 1989 , of Gen. Isidro Cáceres as the new Army Chief of Staff [ see p. 36810 ] , Rear-Adml . |
| 4 | He was joined by Richard Van Allan as the Grand Inquisitor , and these two bass-baritones supplied the power and nobility which had been wanting . |
| 5 | Clearchus wrote a dialogue on sleep , in which he introduced his master Aristotle as the main speaker . |
| 6 | The USA overtook Germany as the leading exporter of merchandise , with a 7.5 per cent rise in exports , and the USA was also the world 's biggest merchandise importer , with Germany second and Japan third in both categories . |
| 7 | A massive product , occupying some 18Mb plus of hard disk space , with the whole of 15th Century Germany as the playing area . |
| 8 | On Oct. 1 Kebby Musokotwane , hitherto secretary-general of the previously ruling United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) , was elected party president at an extraordinary congress , succeeding former President Kenneth Kaunda who had resigned the party leadership in January ; others elected to party posts included Patrick Luvunga as vice-president , Gen. Malimba Masheke as chair and Gen. Benjamin Mibenge as the new secretary-general . |
| 9 | President Jorge Serranno Elías on Dec. 6 named Gen. José Domingo García Samayoa as the new Defence Minister replacing Gen. Luis Enrique Mendoza Garcia . |
| 10 | I believe that George killed Lennie as the ultimate act of friendship . |
| 11 | If he does , he will join former England man John Dean as the only person to ever win the award twice . |
| 12 | Certainly Chester , which was the successor to the Diocese of Lichfield as the ecclesiastical authority for Stockport , offered great opportunities . |
| 13 | Hyde will inevitably prevail , with South-Central standing in for Willie Horton in the autumn campaign , and a continuing sideline in denouncing LBJ as the prime cause of urban collapse . |
| 14 | Chapman had first appreciated the crowd-pulling potential of a station practically on Arsenal 's doorstep , giving the club a quick connection with most parts of the capital , when he came to Highbury as the visiting manager of Leeds City in 1913 , and it now fired his imagination . |
| 15 | Salmin Amour was elected President of Zanzibar as the sole candidate following the decision in August of Idris Abdul Wakil ( President since 1985 — see pp. 34149-50 ) not to stand again . |
| 16 | First , however , I have to declare myself in favour of the general principle of a national curriculum , which has been described by Kenneth Baker as the central feature of the new Act . |
| 17 | Most of all , he missed Jack Warner as the old-fashioned robocopper in Dixon of Dock Green , zapping the Frenchies with his bio-implant bazookas . |
| 18 | And Professor Dowd 's reach swiftly became global : fourteen years after the publication of his monograph and a year after America adopted his system , so the International Meridian Conference in Washington agreed as well : the entire world , not just the American portion of it , should be divided into time zones with Greenwich as the prime meridian . |
| 19 | Wally Hammond took over from Hobbs as the Great Man of English cricket . |
| 20 | Surprisingly there is now one spot in the timetable when there are two passenger trains in Aberystwyth at the same time , necessitating shunting in the station to the centre road or run round and shunt token working with Borth as the intermediate point . |
| 21 | The foreign ministers of the Rio group of 11 Latin American countries joined the Bolivian , Chilean , Honduran and Jamaican governments in expressing their deepest concern , as did Argentina and Brazil , but none withdrew recognition of Fujimori in favour of San Roman as the legitimate President . |
| 22 | Mario Soares , the recently re-elected President of Portugal , appointed Gen. Vasco Rocha Vieira as the new Governor of Macao on March 21 . |
| 23 | In January 1991 , on his re-election as President of Portugal , Soares appointed Gen. Vasco Rocha Vieira as the new Governor . |
| 24 | DEC and Microsoft , neither of whom could ever be accused of being the least bit friendly to Unix , look for all the world like they 're ganging up to try and kill it off once and for all , using NT-on-Alpha as the blunt instrument . |
| 25 | Chapter 4 provides the reasons for selecting Wales and the Auvergne as the major study areas and outlines the forms of agriculture in the two regions plus their nature conservation interests . |
| 26 | I T N's Charles Hodson reported from Jordan on Tuesday as the Jordanian government urged countries to repatriate their nationals more quickly . |
| 27 | Huang Tao , described by Radio Pakistan as the Chinese Petroleum Minister , visiting Islamabad to participate in the International Petroleum Seminar on Nov. 22-24 , stated that China was prepared to give substantial aid for the development of Pakistan 's petroleum industry . |
| 28 | Although Scotland fans remember Jimmy Johnstone as the drunken hero of the Largs boating trip , a passing thought should be spared for a couple of local brothers , John and Tam Halliday , two old men who luckily owned a boat and had a lifetime 's knowledge of the maritime area . |
| 29 | The squad also includes a Belgian ( Lally ) , a Uruguayan ( Dabo ) , a Pole ( Wiecorek ) , two Romanians ( Dinescu and Veres ) , a Tunisian ( Nocami ) , two Portuguese ( Ferreira and Macierra ) and Racing CF speedy wing Willie Jefferson as the honorary American . |
| 30 | But it is time they recognised the PLO as the real representative of the Palestinian people . ’ |