Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [noun] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact she bought a couple of tapes from my record club as Christmas presents for him . ’ |
| 2 | After the School of Oriental Studies opened in 1917 Alice Werner was appointed lecturer and subsequently reader in Swahili and other Bantu languages ( with her sister Mary as lecturer from 1918 to 1930 ) . |
| 3 | Sun is set to cut prices across-the-board this week on its desktop line as part of its transition to Viking starting May 19th : just how deep they 'll go remains to be seen . |
| 4 | Leaders of the eight member states of the Amazon Pact , meeting in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus , have issued a declaration calling for financial and technical support from northern countries , in return for agreeing to preserve their forest resources as part of a strategy to combat global warming , to be discussed at the UNCED conference in June . |
| 5 | Japanese financial institutions had traditionally been allowed to declare their share portfolios as part of the capital reserves which they were obliged to maintain . |
| 6 | In the 1980s , management came to see its information system as part of a variety of decision support systems . |
| 7 | It was bought by the John Lewis Partnership who want to expand their Waitrose supermarket as part of a new development programme of the town centre . |
| 8 | In February 1991 US$632,000,000 of debt to commercial creditor banks was bought back at 56 per cent of its face value as part of the United States " Brady Plan " for debt restructuring [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ] . |
| 9 | Tadpole is offering a free copy of Lotus 1–2-3 with its Sparcbook notebooks as part of a Power Perks promotion . |
| 10 | By training a teacher of the deaf , the latter was celebrating his silver jubilee as superintendent missioner at Leeds during the year of the Cardiff Congress . |
| 11 | During this period Stella is in hospital as she is in labour and Stanley changes into the marriage pyjamas that he wore on his wedding night as celebration . |
| 12 | Harkness , 74 , reached his football peak as president of the SFA during the ill-fated Argentina World Cup campaign . |
| 13 | It seems that even the 081/071 switch-over went seamlessly well owing to Richard and his expert ease as writer/director . |
| 14 | Booth had his Test exploits as consolation for missing out on an Olympic medal in hockey . |
| 15 | Mrs Kennerley sent a copy of the letter to his campaign team as proof of his patriotism at the time . |
| 16 | Carey , 55 , who had spent most of his union career as president of the Teamsters ' New York branch , had been elected as president in the government-supervised elections of December 1991 , succeeding William J. McCarthy . |
| 17 | The same Honest John who once described his Treaty negotiation as Game , Set and Match and who now prays at night the French WILL reject it so all the blame can be piled elsewhere . |
| 18 | He returned to his Chancery career as keeper of the Rolls from 24 September 1402 . |
| 19 | Known to Grant and Springfield as Doctor Sung , to the sect membership as Archangel Michael , to his fellow sect leaders as Angel One , and to his Triad masters as Agent Red Sixteen , he was truly a shadow warrior of many guises . |
| 20 | It was rarely that he felt such a direct clash between his twin roles as actor and detective . |
| 21 | Certainly there can be no denying the fact that at Abernethy the King of Scotland gave his son Duncan as hostage to the King of England . |
| 22 | Kamal Jumblatt 's assassination in 1977 led directly to the succession of his son Walid as leader of the Druze and as commander of the ‘ Leftist Alliance ’ , the agglomeration of Lebanese Muslim and Palestinian guerrillas which generally represented the nationalists . |
| 23 | Ian was driving a six hundred CC motorbike , with his brother Mark as pillion passenger . |
| 24 | Mancini believed that Edward IV had designated his brother Gloucester as protector — a statement which he first introduces with a cautious ‘ as they say ’ , but which then becomes the cornerstone of his argument . |
| 25 | Mancini believed that Edward IV had designated his brother Gloucester as protector — a statement which he first introduces with a cautious ‘ as they say ’ , but which then becomes the cornerstone of his argument . |
| 26 | The following is his acceptance speech as President and , while betraying a certain youthfulness , it demonstrates the cast — the humour and the audacity — of his mind at that time : |
| 27 | He enlivened his acceptance speech as MP for Brent South with the words ‘ Brent today , Soweto tomorrow ’ . |
| 28 | The Committee would like to express their sincere thanks to Mrs Sheila Price , who donated two new railway books to the Society for use at our winter meetings as raffle prizes . |
| 29 | Half-day training courses were also given to our telephone operators as part of the long term aim at increasing our effectiveness in the use of the telephone . |
| 30 | Er there seems to have been a rash of resignations recently , it all started with David Gower , then Graham Taylor and last week we heard that Mary Whitehouse is standing down now it 's Joan and thank you Joan for your sterling work as ticket subscription secretary Joan reorganized the system and I 'm sure that whoever takes over from Joan will start with an immaculate set of facts and figures . |