Example sentences of "[num] as [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A working visit on Feb. 11 to Bonn , Germany , by UK Prime Minister John Major was described by The Times of Feb. 12 as marking the start of " a new era of close co-operation " . |
| 2 | Peter Smith and Andrew Coltart both had 75 while Gordon Brand , jnr , joint runner-up with David Feherty in Valencia a fortnight ago had 77 as did the Irishman . |
| 3 | ‘ The existence of the defence of ‘ reasonable excuse ’ in section 42(4) of the Act of 1987 , which was not present in any guise in the provisions considered in Reg. v. Harz ; Reg. v. Power [ 1967 ] 1 A.C. 760 , could not itself justify construing section 42 as retaining the privilege under the concept of ‘ reasonable excuse , ’ which was clearly necessary to cover such matters as physical inability to comply with a requirement for information or documents arising from illness or accidental destruction of papers , etc . |
| 4 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 5 | The home that Abigail Pilmay built in 1682 has now been demolished but it was remembered in the 1920s as having the name Pot House . |
| 6 | Most shops were open until eight o'clock ; butchers and grocers closed at nine as did the market , lit in those days by oil lamps . |
| 7 | He sees the East European revolutions of 1989 as disproving the need for revolutionary violence . |
| 8 | Eadmer reports him in February 1094 as addressing the king in these terms : |