Example sentences of "in [noun sg] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two recent attempts to invoke the EEC competition rules before the English courts were : Shearson Lehman 's attempt to prevent the London Metal Exchange fixing a closing-out price for tin contracts in existence as the time of the collapse of the tin market ; and Macarthy PLC 's attempt to obtain an injunction restraining a share allocation and discount scheme introduced by a pharmaceutical wholesaler , which it alleged distorted competition . |
| 2 | If Soviet Russia is to be denied the hegemony of Europe , the United Kingdom must continue in existence as the principal power in Western Europe economically and militarily . |
| 3 | Friends watched in horror as the 15ft monster played with the body for more than 15 minutes near Brisbane . |
| 4 | Spectators watched in horror as the 19-year-old daredevil smashed into the ground from the top of a crane . |
| 5 | People waiting for trains watched in horror as the violence spread towards the Festi-val Hall . |
| 6 | Sabine cried out in horror as the Peugeot swerved crazily , and plunged off the road . |
| 7 | But ‘ Miserere nostri ’ is medieval in technique as the lovely ‘ Ave rosa sine spinis ’ is in feeling , and at his finest — as in the glorious antiphon ‘ Gaude gloriosa Dei mater ’ — we hear him as the heir of the Eton composers , not of Josquin . |
| 8 | It acted in Parliament as the representative of Labour interests within a broader alliance of progressive forces . |
| 9 | I watched in disbelief as the Con-Sec paid her , counting out the notes and thumbing them from a pile on to the table in front of her so that all could witness his honesty . |
| 10 | But it is incredible what the human frame will stand and I blinked in disbelief as the iron gates appeared once more under their arch of sooty branches . |
| 11 | With some difficulty I got up and watched in disbelief as the collie staggered to his feet . |
| 12 | The veneered desk where they sat was suddenly drenched in light as the languid television crews jumped up and took their positions , communicating with each other by harsh whispers or frantic sign language . |
| 13 | A similar effect can lead to the summits of mountains in orogenic belts increasing in elevation as the incision of deep valleys between peaks causes unloading of the crust . |
| 14 | Finian — physician to the heroic King of Ulster , Connor MacNessa of Emhain Macha , may well be calling too in grief as the chivalrous upholder of the ancient Gaelic comraind legis or ‘ impartial treatment of the wounded ’ . |
| 15 | Even where there was only one purchaser , there was nothing to identify the particular cases of wine in stock as the subject-matter of the purchaser 's contract . |
| 16 | Occupied now mainly by Caroline Jacobs , the corporate fund-raising manager and her staff , it will also be used in future as the principal office of the Chief Executive . |
| 17 | The Holy Roman Empire , of Charlemagne , of the Ottonian emperors , through to the Hohenstaufens , was to be seen in all seriousness as the legitimate heir of ‘ the Augustan peace ’ : a dispensation which , though seldom or never actualized through the last five centuries , must be held in mind as the one and only imaginable harmonizing of Church and State , of religion and politics , at least throughout Europe . |
| 18 | Bear in mind as the starting-point that your permission to use someone 's land for rabbiting may very well not extend to after-dark activities , so ensure that this point is clarified . |
| 19 | Despite the general level of the analysis , which offers ‘ scepticism ’ as a further quality to add to ‘ logic ’ and ‘ objectivity ’ as characteristics associated with literacy , this passage does offer a more precise formulation of what Goody has in mind as the consequences of literacy . |
| 20 | ‘ At about the time we finished making The Knack , ’ said Richard Lester , ‘ I bought the book of How I Won the War , by Patrick Ryan , and started work with Charles Wood on a screenplay , with Michael in mind as the lead . |
| 21 | It is important to note in particular that although much is said and written about directives ( as indeed will be the case later in this article ) , they are much less numerous than regulations , which appear in effect as the most frequently used Community legislative instrument . |
| 22 | Eventually proposals of marriage are made and accepted , but during the ceremony — performed by Despina in disguise as the notary — military sounds are heard and the girls realize with horror that their original sweethearts are ‘ returning ’ . |
| 23 | It should be remembered that in the majority of cases involving the sale of ‘ family ’ companies , failure to conclude a transaction may place even our TIME based fees in jeopardy as the client simply will not have the funds to pay . |
| 24 | A grade A listed building its restoration is in jeopardy as the new office block which was to have been its salvation remains unlet . |
| 25 | But at the same time , to argue that the trust becomes greater , and the faith more admirable , in proportion as the evidence for God becomes slighter , is not our position . |
| 26 | He was one of a party installing lights on the runway in question as the FW 190 came in . |
| 27 | The object of a signature by a testator , by contrast , is to authenticate the written document in question as the will of the testator . |
| 28 | St Johnstone , sponsored by a local whisky company ‘ The Famous Grouse ’ , and dismissed by the Dundee fans as ‘ grousebeaters ’ , looked on in delight as the big estate along the road fell on hard times . |
| 29 | Watch in delight as the city 's trendiest inhabitants jetski down Fifth Avenue , or strap on your tanks and check out the exotic undersea life flitting in and out of the ruined buildings where Harlem used to be . |
| 30 | One merely has to read its wording to see that it can not be given any sensible meaning in a context such as the present , where the mind and will of the defendants are also treated in law as the mind and will of ‘ the other . ’ |