Example sentences of "down as [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Labour 's defeat led Neil Kinnock on April 13 to announce that he would resign as party leader as soon as practicable ; Roy Hattersley would also stand down as deputy leader . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Er , literacy is it 's one of the general skills , I 'm sure it 's down as literacy numeracy 's the other one |
4 | In a controversial decision on Feb. 23 , Elisabeth Kopp , who had stepped down as Justice Minister in January 1989 [ see p. 36473 ] , was acquitted by the criminal law division of Federal Supreme Court ( Bundesstrafgericht ) on charges of violating professional secrecy . |
5 | or write you down as time scale , you 'd presumably talking about planning up to six weeks perhaps before she trots around . |
6 | Mr Krenz , sitting dejected among the delegates in the penultimate row of the sports hall where the congress was held , stepped down as party leader a week ago . |
7 | Mr Krenz , sitting dejected among the delegates in the penultimate row of the sports hall where the congress was held , stepped down as party leader a week ago . |
8 | President ArĂstides Maria Pereira announced at an extraordinary congress of the PAICV on July 26 , 1990 , that he was stepping down as party leader as a first step towards the ending of one-party rule , declaring that the President had to be above party politics . |
9 | throw it down as ground bait |
10 | Gradually vanishing , as governments grow more sensitive and put it down as summer diarrhoea . |