Example sentences of "in [noun prp] as [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ali Mahdi Mohammed was sworn in on Jan. 29 in Mogadishu as President of Somalia , marking the end of the 21-year rule of President Mohammed Siyad Barre , who had fled the capital three days earlier . |
| 2 | His remarks — to the Berlin press club — were received gleefully by senior EC officials in Strasbourg as evidence of US support for their view about how the community should evolve in the new European situation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Shortly before his 1430 coronation in Paris as King of France , the young Henry VI was given a manuscrit de luxe ( now known as The Bedford Hours ) by Anne of Burgundy , Duchess of Bedford . |
| 5 | Whereas the Shah came to be seen in Iran as doorman to the Great Satan , pushing Western goods and notions , Hassan had cleverly portrayed himself as resisting both Moroccos former colonizers the French , and , more recently , the American intrusion . |
| 6 | The first was Helen 's return to 6 Patten Road for a ten-day holiday before she began work in London as governess to Horst , the young son of M. and Mme Roman who lived at the Hotel Metropole . |
| 7 | Around 1825 he took a post in Carlisle as manager of a small ironworks , and in 1832 he was appointed mill manager for Losh , Wilson , & Bell 's Walker Ironworks near Newcastle upon Tyne . |