Example sentences of "[being] [verb] as the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Miller , the son of a Jamaican father and English mother , aroused interest by being mooted as the first black player to represent England . |
| 2 | The Government 's insistence that the Channel tunnel rail link be privately-financed is being seen as the first stage in a longer term plan to privatise the entire British Rail network . |
| 3 | In what is being seen as the first licensing by Apple Computer Inc of its Macintosh technology , the company has signed an OEM agreement that enables Honeywell Inc to use the Mac interface in avionics systems : Honeywell will use the technology to drive management information systems for commercial airline cockpits , building an Electronic Library System incorporating an adapted avionics version of Apple 's Macintosh Quadra 800 high-end box . |
| 4 | EC trade analysts said last night that M Delors was probably happy to raise the temperature of the dispute , to minimise expectations for his Washington mission , which until yesterday was being seen as the last chance to save the five-year round of Gatt talks . |
| 5 | Increasingly in Britain statutory services are seen as being used as the last resort in the care of older people ; the care of older people is being placed firmly within the domain of the family and the informal sector . |
| 6 | The two-volume octavo work of 1724 , known as The Gardeners and Florists Dictionary , is Omitted from the enumeration of editions , the folio work of 1731 being classed as the first . |
| 7 | We are being billed as the last of the red-hot lovers . ’ |
| 8 | She held posts in Northumberland and Dundee before being appointed as the first educational psychologist in Dumbarton . |
| 9 | Scotland 's defeat in Italy was certainly not unexpected — tonight , as we 've heard , Joe Jordan is being touted as the next Scotland manager . |
| 10 | President Mobutu of Zaire has publicly objected to not being acknowledged as the seventh richest man in the world . |
| 11 | HOWARD Davies , 41 , controller of the Audit Commission , was swiftly presented with an ‘ agenda ’ yesterday after being confirmed as the next director-general of the Confederation of British Industry at a performance-related salary estimated to be starting at £175,000 . |
| 12 | He returned to teaching in Catholic schools , being chosen as the first African to teach at a seminary for future priests near Elmina . |
| 13 | Cairo is now being described as the next major release of NT , and may well be the release that the market waits for before deciding to commit to NT . |
| 14 | Cairo is now being described as the next major release of NT , and may well be the release that the market waits for before deciding to commit to NT . |