Example sentences of "to [noun sg] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All too frequently Nizan 's highly publicised resignation from the PCF in September 1939 is interpreted by contemporary liberal critics imbued with a visceral hostility to communism as the visible sign that his allegiance to the party was flawed from the beginning . |
| 2 | In a general election on July 19 , 1987 [ see pp. 35388-90 ] , the PSD , which under Cavaco Silva had been ruling as a minority administration , was returned to parliament as the first government since 1974 to command an absolute majority . |
| 3 | And he carried that Conservative generation to vote a motion which preferred Liberalism to Conservatism as the better future for the country . |
| 4 | Few institutions in the western world have proved as resistant to change as the Commons . |
| 5 | And if I dare say it , she has come to glory as the earthly manifestation of a holy trinity with Nicholas Ryan , father , producer , and his wife Roma , Holy Spirit and lyricist . |
| 6 | erm , and you would see er , a shift in capital to , to agriculture as the return on capital in urban falls , |
| 7 | Near the end of the period gold coin may have been used in commercial transactions , but the dwindling supply of gold in western Europe caused a switch to silver as the principal precious metal . |
| 8 | Moreover , while Ms Heneson does mention in passing the other categories of AIDS victims — Haitian immigrants , IV drug users and transfused haemophiliacs — she refers to AIDS as the ‘ latest manifestation of Sodom and Gomorrah , ’ which betrays a serious ignorance of current Biblical scholarship , and she emphasises ‘ sexually hyperactive , urban gay men ’ . |
| 9 | Peter Fowler is the first name that springs to mind as the hardest worker on the Tour , purely because we do n't see Nick Faldo too often ! |
| 10 | By December 1989 evidence was mounting that consumption was giving way to investment as the main engine of growth . |
| 11 | Two smaller protests took place , however , on the news of the award of the Nobel Peace Price to the Dalai Lama in October 1989 [ see p. 36990 ] ; and in December celebrations turned to violence as the Dalai Lama went to Norway to receive the award . |
| 12 | A man had his arm around her , rocking her from side to side as the singers swayed with their patriotic song . |
| 13 | The yacht rocked violently from side to side as the ship 's wake came under them . |
| 14 | They 're live documents which are subject to revision as the organization changes and as we improve . |
| 15 | Madonna plays to type as the centre fielder , Mae Mordabito , a man-hungry show-off . |
| 16 | It was too early for me to be a Yuckie — the tabloid newspapers ' shorthand for the young city slickers who celebrated the end of a day 's trading with too much lager and then reverted to type as the football hooligans they really were under the skin . |
| 17 | There is increased resistance to lysis as the thrombus ages not only in vivo , but also in vitro . |
| 18 | Some of the increase must be due to migration as the maximum increase biologically possible in the time would be a doubling of the population . |
| 19 | The rise of the cloth industry considerably changed the economic geography of England , with new areas emerging to prominence as the result of industrial growth . |
| 20 | If this is the case , rather than attempt to invent a new conceptual framework , there is much to be said for turning to marriage as the one , already existing legal concept which has the obvious potential for expansion so as to provide the institutional framework for such a union . |
| 21 | I still commend this report to council as the first real stride along the road we have to take , there 's no choice about that . |
| 22 | Yet no election campaign has been as unctuously hostile to wealth as the Labour one of 1992 in justifying its policies about the poll tax , the health service , education , and national and local taxation ; and nothing in the public packaging operation left any reason to suppose the Labour Party had abandoned the assumptions of the 1960s . |
| 23 | For the press , the loosening of the relationship with politicians produced a dilemma : it aspired to greatness as the fourth estate and as an institution for political enlightenment yet it had to pursue the mass audience in order to survive commercially . |
| 24 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |
| 25 | For it is one thing to deny the significance Marx attaches to alienation as the prime impulse to class struggle ; and quite another to identify it , cleaned of its Hegelian war-paint , as we have identified it already : as the abstraction of one 's working life from a life of one 's own . |
| 26 | In Northern Nigeria power did remain in the hands of the Residents , because they possessed historical claims to legitimacy as the standard-bearers of Indirect Rule — a point always emphasized by Palmer in his dealings with junior officers — and because they were linked with the top men in a congeries of feudal autocracies . |
| 27 | Its brief was to ‘ help and persuade as many people as possible to look forward to retirement as the time of fulfilment ’ ( Hubbard 1962 ) . |
| 28 | A small framed photo of girlfriend Juliette Lewis — who shot to fame as the sexually awakening daughter , Danielle , in Cape Fear — sits atop a bookcase . |
| 29 | Father Coughlin came to fame as the " radio priest " , broadcasting from the altar of his Shrine of the Little Flower near Detroit . |
| 30 | John Alcock ( Jack to his friends ) rose to fame as the pilot of the 1919 trans-Atlantic Vimy . |