Example sentences of "[noun prp] as [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Election of Gorbachev as President of the USSR |
| 2 | Dr. Grant David Yeats M.D. as physician to the institution , |
| 3 | An Executive Committee decision to nominate Arafat as President of the State of Palestine and Farouk Qaddumi as Foreign Minister was endorsed by the Central Council in April 1989 . |
| 4 | William of Malmesbury [ q.v. ] describes Agatha as sister of the Hungarian queen and Ailred of Rievaulx [ q.v. ] calls her the daughter of the Hungarian king 's brother , the Emperor Henry , while Orderic Vitalis [ q.v. ] says Edward married the Hungarian king 's daughter . |
| 5 | On June 5 the USSR Supreme Soviet approved the appointment of Valery Serov as Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Construction and Investments and of Vladimir Gusev as Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Chemistry and Biotechnologies . |
| 6 | In 1944 he returned to Washington as chairman of the Canadian Joint Staff Mission , responsible for planning Canada 's participation in the invasion of Japan . |
| 7 | Anyone who withdraws more than net interest or pledges the Tessa as security for a loan immediately loses the tax exemption and has to pay tax on all interest credited up to that time as though it were income arising during the year when the withdrawal or pledge took place . |
| 8 | Professor Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi succeeded Professor James D Halloran as Director of the Centre for Mass Communication Research at the University of Leicester on 1 September . |
| 9 | Professor Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi succeeded Professor James D Halloran as Director of the Centre for Mass Communication Research at the University of Leicester on 1 September . |
| 10 | According to Abel Goumba of the Front patriotique oubanguien-Parti du travail and spokesperson of a coalition of opposition forces , there was dissatisfaction at the appointment of Prime Minister Edouard Frank as chair of the preparatory meeting and at the distribution of seats , which favoured the government . |
| 11 | King Haakon , defeated by Alexander II of Scotland at the Battle of Largs in 1263 , fled to Orkney , where he died later the same year ; and Norse rule ended when King Christian I pledged Orkney as security for the dowry of his daughter , The Maid of Norway , sent as bride to King James III . |
| 12 | He announced that the five northern ( largely Islamic ) states — Sokoto , Bornu , Katsina , Kano and Bauchi — were to be excised from the federation , until the " rightful heir " to the Sultanate of Sokoto was installed [ see p. 36325 for controversy over the appointment in November 1988 of an ally of Babangida as successor to the late Sultan , the spiritual leader of Nigeria 's 60,000,000 Moslems ] . |
| 13 | In 1971 Michael ( two years later to be Sir Michael ) Clapham succeeded Lord Kings Norton as Chairman of the Council , and Edwin Kerr was appointed to take over from Frank Hornby in 1972 . |
| 14 | The measures followed the resignation on April 2 of Rolf Kullberg as governor of the Bank of Finland ( central bank ) after disagreements with the government over economic policy . |
| 15 | He had come to Addis Ababa as correspondent for the Graphic and he later made use of the occasion to parody what he had seen in Black Mischief and other books . |
| 16 | In the UK and France the government rejected responsibility for the bombardment , for which Saddam Hussein as instigator of the war was described as responsible . |
| 17 | Hunter succeeded Phillipa Burrow as chairman at the Torquay convention , less than two weeks after his 30th birthday and only 10 years after leaving college in his native Edinburgh with a Higher National Diploma in communications studies . |
| 18 | Najibullah , the PDPA general secretary since May 1986 and hitherto Chairman of the Revolutionary Council Presidium , was on Nov. 30 , 1987 , elected by the Loya Jirga as President of the Republic and C.-in-C. of the Armed Forces for a ( renewable ) seven-year term [ ibid . ] . |
| 19 | Najibullah was elected on Nov. 30 , 1987 , by the Loya Jirga as President of the Republic and C.-in-C. of the Armed Forces for a ( renewable ) seven-year term [ p. 35425 ] . |
| 20 | The clampdown was continued by the appointments of Sir John Nott-Boyer as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police — his stated aim was to ‘ rip the cover off all London 's filth spots ’ — and a new Home Secretary , Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe , whose attitude toward homosexuals was that they were , in general , ‘ exhibitionists and proselytisers and a danger to others , especially the young . |
| 21 | Following the resignation of Ernst Pedro Casseus as president of the Chamber of Deputies ( lower house of parliament ) after disagreements over his decision to suspend the session , Duly Brutus was unanimously elected as the chamber 's new president on Aug. 20 . |
| 22 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | November 1986 : Douglas Hurd appoints Marmaduke Hussey as chairman of the BBC governors , presumably in recognition of his record as a union-bashing newspaper executive . |
| 24 | The efforts of Lord Carrington as chair of the EC-sponsored peace conference on Yugoslavia were increasingly criticized as ineffective . |
| 25 | Letter writers frequently regarded the ZBS as representative of the new social order-. the new nation — and wrote to it with that in mind . |
| 26 | The final stages of the negotiations coincided with the presence of Michael Clapham as Chairman of the Council , and Edwin Kerr as Chief Officer , both of whom played influential parts in the process . |
| 27 | Presidential elections held concurrently with congressional elections on May 1 , 1989 , returned Rodríguez as President for a five-year term [ see p. 36652 ] . |
| 28 | In the same year Giovanni Animuccia ( C. 1500–1571 ) , who succeeded Palestrina as master of the Cappella Giuliana in 1555 and was succeeded by him in 1571 , described his First Book of Masses as composed ‘ seconda la forma del Concilio di Trento ’ , and Vincenzo Ruffo ( c. 1510–1587 ) of Milan Cathedral explained in the dedication of his book of Masses ‘ according to the Milan rite ’ ( 1570 ) that he had composed them on Borromeo 's instructions ‘ ex sancti tridentini Concilii decreto ’ . |
| 29 | In particular , a mechanism was required to channel funds to the UK as compensation for the effects of CAP , from which other member states benefited disproportionately . |
| 30 | After speaking in Strasbourg as president of the Council of Europe , Mr Hurd addressed the council in a national capacity , and said : ‘ I remain concerned at the continuing failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate the incitement to murder of the British subject , Mr Salman Rushdie , and the bounty offered in that respect by all Iranian organisations . |