Example sentences of "as [noun] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he retired as Secretary-General in 1960 he was given the Padma Vibhushan , the second-highest Indian honour ; in the Lok Sabha ( India 's Lower House ) Nehru paid an extremely rare tribute to a civil servant , saying that Pillai 's departure created ‘ a certain blank ’ . |
| 2 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 3 | Micro Focus , meanwhile , is offering a fully dynamic system that it claims is as polymorphic as Smalltalk in that it supports dynamic look-ups and can implement an untyped system . |
| 4 | Under Sole 's command Scotland won 14 times , and when he took over from Finlay Calder as captain in 1989 he continued a sequence that was to lead to another record : 13 successive victories at Murrayfield . |
| 5 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |