Example sentences of "establish [pron] [noun] as the " in BNC.

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1 LIVERPUDLIAN professional golfer Karl ‘ Hitman ’ Woodward ( 42 ) , was today aiming to establish his claim as the longest driver in the world .
2 Although Stark , uniquely at that date , had experimented with a severe part-Wren , part-Russian neo-baroque at the steeple of his St George 's church , Glasgow ( 1807 ) , his next major design , the Greek Doric Judiciary Buildings in Glasgow 's Saltmarket established his reputation as the pioneer of the Greek revival in Scotland .
3 Rather than ministering to a small elite , these institutions had now established their function as the " education of the upper intelligence groups of the nation " , selected according to criteria which included being " good " at English in school .
4 In the early eighteenth century the West Indian islands had established their position as the overseas area that meant most to Britain , and had become completely dependent on sugar and on slaves to grow the sugar .
5 They have become coordinators largely because they have established their reputations as the first to counteract those years of neglect , but they have themselves suffered more from that neglect than the new generation of community language teachers which is at last emerging .
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