Example sentences of "as [num] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After twenty-five years as one of Cologne 's premier dealers , Zwirner will close his gallery in December of this year in order to work as a private dealer and to devote himself to projects of personal interest . |
| 2 | With the signing of two financial agreements with Algeria on May 2 , Italy was confirmed as one of Algeria 's main commercial partners — a policy said to provide endorsement for Hamrouche 's reform programme and to contrast with the more cautious attitude of France , Algeria 's most important trading partner . |
| 3 | THE Pru is jumping on the green bandwagon and as one of Britain 's major motor insurers is encouraging car owners to convert their vehicles to unleaded petrol . |
| 4 | As one of Britain 's top voice experts , Miss Davies monitors the way politicians talk — their accent , their peculiarities , their little affectations . |
| 5 | Country houses have often been described as ‘ collective works of art ’ and as one of Britain 's greatest contributions to the visual arts . |
| 6 | A RACEHORSE tycoon named as one of Britain 's richest men two years ago has called in the receivers . |
| 7 | As one of Britain 's leading specialist holiday companies , we have arranged with Lloyd 's Underwriters for a comprehensive travel insurance policy . |
| 8 | All this has helped to establish him as one of Britain 's most celebrated comic talents , as well as a somewhat unlikely sex symbol . |
| 9 | Beyond the field of Celtic linguistic history , Victor had another , very different identity as one of Britain 's leading authorities on value added tax . |
| 10 | Claire Rayner is someone else well acquainted with the complexities of the personal as one of Britain 's most empathetic solvers of problems . |
| 11 | She would have preferred a romantic candlelit dinner for two , but even more , she wanted Josh to see David as one of life 's pluses and not as an interloper . |
| 12 | As long as the occasion of buying one 's first car is regarded as one of life 's momentous landmarks there can be little hope . |
| 13 | James Hadley , writing his will in 1532 , remembered the church as one of Somerset 's ‘ holy places ’ , and by the late eighteenth century it had become the frequent destination of topographical writers who came searching for the romantically sublime . |
| 14 | Instead of positing psychically repressed homosexuality as the necessary and/or sufficient cause of homophobia , we might better regard socially proscribed homosexuality as one of homophobia 's several interconnected and enabling conditions , none of which is independently either necessary or sufficient . |
| 15 | There were a number of small battles in Labourd and eventually , in February 1814 , one large one , further to the east , at Orthez , recorded as one of Wellington 's deftest victories , and as an ultimate defeat for Marshal Soult and his army from Spain . |
| 16 | Not until Queen Anne 's reign did Mansel attract much attention , when he took the eye as one of Harley 's henchmen in the Commons , and his appointment to office in 1704 , as comptroller of the household and a privy councillor , was an integral part of the ministerial reconstruction in which Harley 's band of ‘ moderate ’ Tories came to the fore . |
| 17 | Returning to government with his mentor two years later , he was briefly a lord of the Treasury , but in 1711 became comptroller again and not long after that took a peerage as one of Harley 's ‘ dozen ’ new lords ( created en bloc to guarantee the Upper House 's acceptance of the peace of Utrecht ) and retreated to the lucrative but undemanding post of teller of the Exchequer . |
| 18 | As one of London 's best-known Indian restaurants , this was the natural place for the politicians ' Curry Club to be launched . |
| 19 | As one of London 's most influential club DJs , Peterson is in constant and close proximity to the streets and the clubs . |
| 20 | As one of Grieco 's respondents put it , |
| 21 | Yourcenar ( an anagram on the family name of Crayencour ) was not an academic , but as one of France 's most highly-regarded novelists , she was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy . |
| 22 | As one of Hugh 's successors in that school , ‘ Master Achard ’ took part in the theological controversies of the 1150s , emerging as a sharp critic of Peter Lombard . |
| 23 | As one of Africa 's prime tourist attractions , it draws in desperately needed funds for the conservation authorities . |
| 24 | Between 1970 and 1986 the Ivory Coast , often regarded as one of Africa 's success stories , more than tripled its cereals imports , its external debt rose more than thirty-fold , and food production per capita barely kept up with population growth ( World Bank , 1988 , Tables ) . |
| 25 | Inside the village hall , a man regarded as one of Scotland 's ablest politicians was invoking the name of his mentor . |
| 26 | Despite his financial wealth and his high profile public image as one of Scotland 's most successful businessmen , Souness is a loner with lots of mates , the man who never quite fits in . |
| 27 | As one of Scotland 's senior education professionals , he has brought his experience to bear on a number of organisations outwith the Council including the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , as education adviser , and the University Grants Committee . |
| 28 | Renowned as one of Spain 's most interesting and beautiful cities . |
| 29 | The BMC move comes as part of a wider campaign to persuade the Government to intervene and secure the estate , described as one of Europe 's most important conservation and winter mountaineering areas , for the nation . |
| 30 | DFDS Transport is recognised today , and rightly so , as one of Europe 's leading transport and forwarding organisations with worldwide links offering services to most , if not all , destinations . |