Example sentences of "on [noun] [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six of the Council 's members , namely Kryuchkov , Maslyukov , Primakov , Shevardnadze , Yakovlev and Yazov , were full or candidate members of the CPSU central committee politburo , all of whom except Yakovlev held in addition ministerial or state posts ( although Primakov resigned on March 28 as Chair of the Soviet of the Union in connection with joining the Presidential Council ) . |
| 2 | There was further disruption in the Lok Sabha on Aug. 14 as Congress ( I ) members protested against events the previous day when BJP workers were alleged to have attacked Scindia 's house in New Delhi . |
| 3 | Tanzania 's President Ali Hassan Mwinyi was elected on Aug. 16 as chair of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ) party , with 1,846 out of 1,851 votes cast , in succession to the " elder statesman " leader Julius Nyerere , who had held on to the party chairmanship for five years since stepping down as state President in 1985 . |
| 4 | Just three hours after being sworn in to his new job on January 1st as governor of Rhode Island , the gravelly-voiced Mr Sundlun ordered the closure of 45 small banks and credit unions . |
| 5 | Michael Forsyth was dismissed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Sept. 7 as chair of the Scottish Conservative Party and at the same time was promoted from Under-Secretary of State to Minister of State at the Scottish Office . |
| 6 | The unrest began on May 5 as textile workers went on strike in support of a pay demand . |
| 7 | Boris Yeltsin , the leading radical populist and one of President Mikhail Gorbachev 's fiercest critics , was elected on May 29 as Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet , making him de facto President of the Russian Federation , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic . |
| 8 | Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada resigned on Oct. 27 as president of the right-wing Nationalist Revolutionary Movement ( MNR ) , and announced his withdrawal from the 1993 presidential election race . |
| 9 | Desmond Fostin resigned on Feb. 9 as Minster of Communications , Works and Transport and was replaced by Gregory Avril [ see p. 37822 ] . |
| 10 | Profit and Beghin reached the 8700 metre summit of the world 's second highest and , rated by many , hardest peak at 7pm on day three as night was falling , making route finding very tricky as they began the descent . |
| 11 | Rioting erupted in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 3 as news spread that a Palestinian detainee had been killed the previous day by soldiers . |
| 12 | The three-year collaboration on this multimedia workshop aims to create two prototype multimedia applications for various categories of visitors and to experiment with putting such applications on media such as CD-ROM and Compact Disk-Interactive . |
| 13 | The U21 qualification date remains September 1st ( not the January 1st suggested last season ) , whilst although the 1992/3 season ends on May 1st with the now traditional match against the French Armed Forces at Twickenham as curtain raiser to the Pilkington Cup Final , it began with a match against Italy U21 s on September 5th as curtain raiser to the Leicester v England match which celebrates the centenary of rugby at Welford Rock . |
| 14 | President Fernando Collor de Mello resigned on Dec. 29 as impeachment proceedings against him began in the Senate . |
| 15 | Nine members of the outgoing government lost their parliamentary seats , including one with Cabinet rank , the Conservative party chairman Chris Patten , who lost to the Liberal Democrat candidate in Bath ( and who was appointed on April 24 as Governor of Hong Kong — see p. 38862 ) . |
| 16 | Walesa was re-elected on April 22 as chairman of Solidarity , winning 362 of the of the 467 votes cast ( 77.5 per cent , compared with only 55 per cent in the 1981 elections ) . |
| 17 | Semra Özal , wife of the President , was elected on April 28 as chair of the Istanbul section of the ruling Motherland Party ( Anatavan Partisi — ANAP ) , defeating the Islamist candidate Talat Yilmaz . |
| 18 | Miloslav Vlk ( 59 ) was enthroned in Prague on June 1 as Archbishop of Prague and Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia , succeeding Cardinal Frantisek Tomasek , who had retired at the age of 91 . |
| 19 | Carlos Navarro , resigned on June 20 as treasurer of the parliamentary group of the ruling Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , as a result of allegations that two Madrid consulting companies with which he had been associated were fronts for the channelling of illegal donations to the PSOE from corporations and banks . |