Example sentences of "was [verb] as the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 25 Costa Rica was ratified as the 100th member of the General Treaty on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 2 | El Salvador was included as the 102nd contracting party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) in an official list released on May 24 . |
| 3 | The Commander of the Air Force since 1979 , Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo , was appointed military attaché to Israel at the beginning of January 1990 in what was seen as the first step in reducing the power of senior right-wing officers . |
| 4 | The signature of a declaration on relations between the two countries was seen as the first step towards a future inter-state treaty . |
| 5 | Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort . |
| 6 | As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal . |
| 7 | In each instance , the EC was seen as the last hope of halting the developments . |
| 8 | It blasphemed God 's goodness to declare that one day , the seventh , was holier than the other six ( the Christian Sunday was seen as the eighth day , pointing beyond time to eternity ) ; that some food or animals were clean and others unclean ; that some nations were less God 's children than others , or that a natural function , such as menstruation , made women unholy and hence unfit for contact with God . |
| 9 | ‘ It was built as the first main processing plant to support the basic nuclear industry of the country and , of course , it has also processed fuel from Japan and Italy . |
| 10 | Miriam was wondering as the first fat drops of rain splashed on the verandah . |
| 11 | Furthermore , staining could not be observed when the solution of purified primary antibody absorbed with PT-gliadin was used as the first layer ( figure not shown ) . |
| 12 | Gestational age was assessed as the last completed week of pregnancy . |
| 13 | In 1981 Bangladesh 's estimated population of 90,630,000 people meant that it was ranked as the eighth largest country in the world ( by population ) , and the fifth largest developing country . |
| 14 | So in fact he knew that he was known as the last resort |
| 15 | I 'm I 'm not so sure that he knew he was known as the last resort . |
| 16 | The following year was billed as the last ever and saw Steel Pulse canned off after 15 minutes by a typically broad-minded Stranglers crowd and Black Sabbath playing in front of an unfinished replica of Stonehenge . |
| 17 | Law and Baker 's joint transfer was greeted as the second coming . |
| 18 | This afternoon Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the forty-second president of the United States . |
| 19 | The value of his contribution was emphasised as the last six wickets fell for 66 . |
| 20 | What set Sadler apart from his contemporaries and rivals in Britain and France , was that he was acknowledged as the first to consciously apply science , to aerostation . |
| 21 | Although Stephen 's older son , who succeeded him , was crowned as the first Serbian king by a representative of Pope Honorius III in 1217 , the allegiance of the Serbs to the Eastern Church was not affected . |
| 22 | This was the first official Israeli representation in China and was viewed as the first step towards the establishment of diplomatic relations . |
| 23 | In the article Garcilaso was touted as the first American and his work seen as the starting point of ‘ a sensibility absolutely new , absolutely Peruvian . ’ |
| 24 | John Welsby was appointed as the first Director , Provincial , and he set about evaluating the sources of the sector 's costs . |
| 25 | In the Administration formed by John Major after the General Election in April 1992 , a solicitor , John Taylor , was appointed as the first Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 26 | On going down from Newnham , she was appointed as the first principal of Cambridge Training College , formed with the purpose of training university women to teach in girls ' secondary schools . |
| 27 | In 1970 he was appointed as the first honorary consul in Scotland for the republic of Turkey , a post in which his understanding and knowledge of the country was of great help to those in need . |
| 28 | We played a couple of club dates , one of which was filmed as the next video for ‘ Back To The Light ’ , and then we did three smallish stadium gigs with Joe Cocker and the B-52s , and they went very well too . |
| 29 | Albania , which had applied for membership in the IMF and the Bank in January 1991 , was admitted as the 156th member of each organization on the opening day of the plenary meetings on Oct. 15 . |
| 30 | Luxembourg was admitted as the 22nd DAC member ; Greece and Turkey also participated in the meeting . |