Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] as the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | October 27th , 1984 , was ringed around on my calendars as the FIRST Hampshire Rally . |
| 2 | Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence . |
| 3 | He believed that it was the official Opposition and had an undoubted right to take its place as the next in line . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On May 13 Don W. Wilson — who , as the head of the National Archives and Records Administration , was generally accepted as the custodian of the Constitution — declared his support for the validity of the measure and stated that he was preparing to certify its adoption as the 27th Amendment . |
| 6 | They were in irresistible form on Saturday , their status as the First Division 's leading goalscorers providing ample evidence of attacking flair allied to their now restored traditional defensive solidity , and thrilled the country 's biggest crowd of the day — an impressive 36,016 — with football of the highest quality . |
| 7 | By the Welland St. Wilfrid built St. Leonard 's Priory , a masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon architecture , befitting its status as the first religious house in all Mercia . |
| 8 | The Loire valley region is especially noted for its châteaux as the fifteenth century court was not yet fixed in Paris and this hunting area was a favoured one for the royal house , who visited loyal subjects in their castle homes . |
| 9 | In September 1964 a special meeting of the corporation finance committee , which included all councillors , adopted an amended motion which gave the boundary extension subcommittee the power to include in its remit the progressive expansion of Derry , so as to maintain its position as the second city in Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | The rubber industry was badly affected by the depression of the 1930s , but its position as the second most important export was not threatened . |
| 11 | The failure of the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — formerly the Communist Party — PCI ) to hold its position as the second electoral force was unprecedented in any post-war elections of comparable scope . |
| 12 | The M19-Democratic Alliance ( ADM-19 ) of former left-wing guerrillas , which ran a single slate of candidates , consolidated its position as the third political force in the country , winning nine Senate seats and 15 in the lower house , although its support dropped dramatically from 27 to 10 per cent of the vote . |
| 13 | They have become coordinators largely because they have established their reputations as the first to counteract those years of neglect , but they have themselves suffered more from that neglect than the new generation of community language teachers which is at last emerging . |
| 14 | One of a group of women who were seen in their own lifetimes as emblems of Pre-Raphaelitism , she made a considerable executive contribution to this important British art movement , and was recognized at her death as the last surviving link with it . |
| 15 | The BDDA 's farewell gesture to him was his election as the first Honourary Vice-president . |
| 16 | Surtees was not content to end his career as the first dual world champion ; he wanted more . |
| 17 | The Marquis of Blandford has insisted he ca n't be stopped from succeeding his father as the next Duke Of Marlborough . |
| 18 | Most of the furniture was familiar to him from boyhood visits to his grandparents , inherited by his aunt as the last of her generation . |
| 19 | Changes of climate have also been investigated during the historic time scale when a range of historical techniques have been utilized , including diaries and records together with sedimentary evidence , and information from faunal remains , archaeology , tree rings and ocean deposits , and G. Manley , a geographer at London University prior to his appointment as the first Professor of Environmental Sciences at Lancaster University , was one who researched many of the obscure details of climatic fluctuations in Western Europe ( e.g. Manley , 1952 ) . |
| 20 | Abul Ahsan ( a member of the Bangladesh foreign service ) completed his tenure as the first Secretary-General of SAARC at the end of October 1989 ; his successor , K. K. Bhargava ( India ) , took up the post at the Secretariat in Kathmandu , the capital of Nepal . |
| 21 | The Führer , too , had demonstratively donned field-grey at the start of the war , to emphasize his unity with his troops and his image as the first soldier of the Reich , whereas the unpopular Party hacks were often seen as shirkers , avoiding their duty at the Front . |
| 22 | Cameron turned back into the house for his cloak and tried to order his thoughts as the last fogginess of sleep evaporated in his head . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're trying to package that with Sony , using our anthology as the first example of the technology . |