Example sentences of "[vb past] its [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 2 | However , the PCI retained its position as the second-largest party . |
| 3 | In elections to the 183-seat Nationalrat ( lower house of parliament ) on Oct. 7 the Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) retained its position as the largest single party . |
| 4 | The most significant political event of the 12 months to June 1991 was the October 1990 general election in which the SPÖ retained its position as the largest single party , the ÖVP registered its worst result since 1945 , and the main beneficiary was the FPÖ [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 5 | Crossman joined Ambrose 's Embassy Club Orchestra in 1926 , some years before the band made its name as the finest jazz group in Europe . |
| 6 | The report on the dedication of this memorial in the Loughborough Church for the Deaf by the Bishop of Leicester is printed in the first number of The British Deaf News , which made its debut as the BDDA 's official organ in January 1955 . |
| 7 | And , from 1911 to 1919 , it secured its position as the women artists ' association in Germany , it got funding from the state , became fully accepted as an association , and continued its activities for furthering the professionalism of women . |
| 8 | The Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) , which represented the bulk of the former Communist Party , with 16.1 per cent of the vote and 107 seats , confirmed its position as the leading opposition party and therefore figured prominently in the discussions on the formation of a new governing coalition . |
| 9 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 10 | For Pickford The Eternal Grind was a step towards her true screen self , which she was to discover most fully in The Poor Little Rich Girl of 1917 , a film which satirized the rich whilst it confirmed its star as the richest actress in the world . |
| 11 | Environmentalists dubbed it a failure for this reason , but acknowledged its importance as the first occasion on which all major world governments had agreed that global warming was a reality . |
| 12 | The enlightened Baptist minister Robert Robinson in Cambridge denounced the trade as an encroachment on natural rights and envisaged its end as the result of a general offensive , congenial to Rational Dissenters , making ‘ the natural connection between civil and religious liberty ’ . |
| 13 | The Democratic Union ( UD ) , part of the governing coalition , lost its place as the largest parliamentary party when on Sept. 20 six deputies , supporters of the right-wing Forum of the Democratic Right group , left the UD . |
| 14 | In 1980 a majority of the member countries of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) recognized the Polisario as the rightful government of Western Sahara , which took its seat as the SADR at the 1989 OAU summit , whereupon Morocco , which had become increasingly isolated in the Maghreb region over the issue , resigned from the OAU in protest . |
| 15 | The first oil crisis gave rise to renewed demand for dollars , since payments to oil exporting countries are made in this form , but in the late 1970s this was followed by another dollar crisis which undermined its integrity as the key international reserve asset . |
| 16 | It is a fine , Medieval bridge , guarded at each end and fortified as befitted its position as the sole river crossing and approach to the castle . |
| 17 | But their price had its limits as the club already boasted a number of highly-priced internationals on its books . |
| 18 | BIS had its beginnings as the ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Task Force and one of its products was the Bibliographic instruction handbook , a practical guide to the establishment and design of library instruction programmes for academic libraries . |