Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] as the " in BNC.

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31 By 1900 Darwin was acknowledged as the founder of evolutionism , but his theory of natural selection was accepted by only a minority of biologists .
32 Miller and Holzman ( 1981 ) were aware of this possible problem with their procedure and conducted a further study in which a smaller dose of LiCl was used as the US .
33 William Denny was appointed as the director to represent the family 's interests .
34 Menem was elected as the new Justicialist Party chairman on Aug. 10 , and his brother Eduardo Menem as vice-chairman .
35 Barry Wyborn was appointed as the new Australian high commissioner to Nauru in December 1989 .
36 Alcibiades Hidalgo was named as the new UN permanent representative .
37 On March 20 Pizarro was confirmed as the M-19 presidential candidate .
38 You will notice on the printed sheet that Ashbone and Wallis of Twitchit are named as goalkeeper and centre-half for Dorning , and that the Saliki twins of Dorning are named as the Twitchit substitutes .
39 Intangible connections between SBUs are defined as the transference of management know-how .
40 Spenser 's Irenius is presented as the voice of experience , the man who has front-line knowledge of the Irish and who , as the dialogue tries to show , has a firm grasp of the Irish situation past and present .
41 STANLEY Woods is regarded as the greatest all-round motorcycle sportsman ever and the repeat of Stanley Woods — the Movie ( BBC1 10.10pm ) , a film more about the man than the sport is seasonally topical .
42 Similarly , experts will talk about Persian carpets and Anatolian ( Turkish ) rugs , regardless of the fact that both countries produce items in all sizes , shapes and designs ; this is probably because Persia is most famous for its magnificent Court carpets , while Anatolia is viewed as the home of the prayer rug .
43 In the minutes of 1847 , Mr Alfred D. Blott is described as the senior of the two ‘ Station Clerks ’ , he had been first appointed on 18 September 1838 , the day after the final section of the L & B Railway was opened .
44 Blackpool 's emerged as the dirtiest beach .
45 Posthumous records and books have been released and nowadays Bashlachev is recognised as the only bona fide genius of Russian rock .
46 Nicholas Dyer is imagined as the builder of Nicholas Hawksmoor 's churches in the East End of London ; the enlightened edifices of a rational Christianity are thereby ascribed to a devil-worshipper , while the name ‘ Hawksmoor ’ is assigned to the Detective Chief Superintendent who , in the later narrative , frets himself into a delirium over a series of stranglings which takes place in the vicinity of the churches .
47 Explaining social behaviour — such as such selflessness — in terms of biology ( especially genes ) is a hallmark of sociobiology , of which Dr Wilson is regarded as the father .
48 After giving up the Premiership , Burke was appointed as the Australian ambassador to Ireland , until forced to resign because of emerging allegations of corruption against his former administration .
49 In two respective court cases , Stamford was recognised as the owner of the huge work , and Hoelzer was guaranteed payment for restoration he claimed to have done .
50 The squadron 's pub in Cambridge was known as The Bun Shop which , many years before , had been a bakery where undergraduates were able to go and buy alcohol as well as buns .
51 Rory was smiling as the small , plump figure scuttled out of the dressing-room , but the smile quickly changed to a thoughtful frown .
52 Here we find the theoretical corollary of what Althusser was to characterize as the tragic ‘ double thesis ’ of Sartre 's ‘ historicist humanism ’ , and which produced , in Michael Sprinker 's words , a ‘ ceaseless rebounding between the poles of revolutionary optimism and historical pessimism ’ .
53 ‘ At that time Whitedown Road was known as the posh end of town , ’ chuckled Leslie .
54 Gen. Adolfo Cuba y Escobedo was named as the new Director of the National Police .
55 The Thinkpad was chosen as the best machine for the job because it is pen-based , has high memory capacity — 12Mb — a 120Mb disk drive and a parallel port-based sound device .
56 Reading was voted as the most popular way of relaxing and getting to sleep .
57 Claire Métayer was chosen as the new president of France Nature when the executive council of the organization met in Paris to choose a successor to Patrick Legrand .
58 When war broke out she had been evacuated to foster parents in Yorkshire until the junior art schools at Central , Camberwell and Hammersmith were resettled as the London Art School at Northampton .
59 GKS is billed as the ‘ first international computer-graphics standard ’ .
60 Marius Leitdorf is known as the Mad Lord of Averland .
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