Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] as [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polozkov 's fraction opposed Yeltsin 's election as chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet . |
| 2 | These included the transfer of the Metal Industry portfolio to Deputy Premier Cho Yong Nim ; the appointment of Deputy Premier Kim Tal Hyon as Chairman of the State Planning Commission ; and the appointment of Yi Song Tae as Kim Tal Hyon 's successor as Chairman of the External Trade Commission . |
| 3 | Lanskoy 's successor as Minister of the Interior , P. A. Valuev , was a prickly character cast in a much more cautious mould . |
| 4 | Rudi Fuchs has been named Wim Beeren 's successor as director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam . |
| 5 | In Florida the Republican incumbent since 1986 , Bob Martinez , was defeated by Lawton Chiles , a self-styled champion of financial probity and ethical campaigning [ for Martinez 's nomination as William Bennett 's successor as Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy see below ] . |
| 6 | Jair Meneguelli , the leader of the Workers ' Central Union ( CUT ) , and Osmarino Amancio Rodriguez , Mendes 's successor as leader of the seringueiros , were joined by other union members , the wives of murdered union members , and environmentalists , in signing the Declaration of Xapuri which was read out over Mendes 's grave . |
| 7 | The Education Secretary , John McGregor , has been appointed as Sir Geoffrey Howe 's successor as leader of the Commons . |
| 8 | The Education Secretary , John McGregor has been appointed as Sir Geoffrey Howe 's successor as Leader of the Commons . |
| 9 | Scanlon 's successor as President of the Engineers ' Union , Terry Duffy , was , in fact , a strongly right-wing figure anxious to reach an accommodation with the government , but naturally it would take him time to build up his authority . |
| 10 | Addressing the 12 heads of government at the start of the Strasbourg summit , Mr Enrique Baron , the Spanish Socialist who is Lord Henry Plumb 's successor as president of the parliament , urged the leaders to go all the way towards full European union provided it is ‘ based on the characteristics which we share in common — those of parliamentary democracy ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ The Prince of Wales 's succession as Head of the Church of England is also unaffected . |
| 12 | The Prince of Wales 's succession as Head of the Church of England is also unaffected . |
| 13 | Following what Gilkes admits has been a very poor year in the VME marketplace , that part of its enterprise will contribute a declining proportion of the company 's revenue as sales of the Sparcbook rise . |
| 14 | I thought that the question of Scotland 's future as part of the UK , or as an independent nation , was an important subject , worthy of wide-ranging debate to be followed ultimately by a democratic decision . |
| 15 | It intensified speculation concerning Miyazawa 's future as leader of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) and , therefore , as Prime Minister . |
| 16 | The Iranian government said that the seizure was illegal and claimed the ship 's cargo as property of the Iranian army . |
| 17 | Having been elected a member of the executive committee in 1937 , he took Ayliffe 's place as editor of The Deaf Quarterly News in 1944 . |
| 18 | A particular tactic of the vendor may be to attempt to use the purchaser 's Accountant 's Investigation as part of the disclosure document . |
| 19 | Gerhard Schürer 's post as Chair of the State Planning Commission was abolished and Grünheid took over the new position of Chair of the Economic Committee . |
| 20 | This enabled me to observe my own and other people 's behaviour as residents of the area . |
| 21 | This brought him to Rivers ' attention , and he became the earl 's deputy as receiver of the duchy of Cornwall . |
| 22 | This brought him to Rivers ' attention , and he became the earl 's deputy as receiver of the duchy of Cornwall . |
| 23 | At the first Parliament of Edward III , held in February and March 1327 , charges were brought against William of Claydon , the elder Despenser 's deputy as Justice of the southern forests . |
| 24 | In Heseltine 's appointment as Minister of the Environment came as no surprise , the event of Heseltine 's appointment is presented as given ; the reader is assumed to know about it . |
| 25 | The Berlin Blockade of June heralded the stationing of the first three US bomber groups in the United Kingdom in July ; and was followed by Montgomery 's appointment as Chairman of the Western European Chiefs of Staff committee in November , and the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty the following April , coincidently with the passage of the US Mutual Defence Aid Programme through Congress . |
| 26 | With Fisher 's appointment as President of the Board ( having a seat in the Cabinet ) came an undertaking that money would be made available for such post-war reconstruction ; and the policy itself was enshrined in legislation to enable the kind of educational expansion within the continuing and adult sectors which had been at the forefront of the Newbolt Committee 's deliberations.5 In practice , however , such expansion was never enacted , despite the ever-increasing reliance of the universities upon state funds ( by 1931 they were receiving slightly over half their income from this source ) , |
| 27 | Korolev 's role as head of the gallery was subject to further scrutiny following the highly embarrassing theft of eighteen of its pictures from a loan exhibition at the Villa Croce , Genoa , in 1991 . |
| 28 | The inhibitions against introducing full-scale controls against black immigration are likely to have stemmed from their possible impact on Britain 's role as head of the Commonwealth and Colonies and concern over the national and international legality of controls based on colour ( Solomos , 1989 , p. 47 ) . |
| 29 | The failure of a forestry management project in northern Ecuador is raising questions over the World Bank 's role as administrator of the Global Environmental Facility ( GEF ) , the main international vehicle for financing environmental projects in developing countries . |
| 30 | This also created a fundamental conflict between the exchange 's role as guardian of the interests of the market as a whole , and its position as a participant in that market . |