Example sentences of "as [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As chairman of Airbus in the UK , Mr McKinlay has responsibility for the company 's Broughton factory . |
| 2 | Earlier , as president of Business in the Community , he had attended presentations to business leaders at St James 's Palace , following a night at Kensington Palace in a separate suite to Princess Diana . |
| 3 | After 9 years in which he applied microbial biochemistry to industrial manufacturing problems , he returned , in 1929 , to academic work as professor of biochemistry at the London School of Hygiene , where he continued to identify the chemical constituents of fungi and discover their functions . |
| 4 | In 1883 Knott travelled to Japan to succeed ( Sir ) J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] as professor of physics in the Imperial College of Engineering ( later Imperial University of Japan ) . |
| 5 | Charles Edwin Bessey ( 18451915 ) came to Lincoln , Nebraska , in 1884 as professor of botany at the state university and state botanist . |
| 6 | In 1894 he replaced ( Sir ) T. E. Thorpe [ q.v. ] as professor of chemistry at the Royal College of Science , which became part of the Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1907 , two years before Tilden retired in 1909 . |
| 7 | Phillip King has attracted surprisingly modest attention in the ten years since his retrospective exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1981 but , as Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art until 1990 , he has shaped the styles of his students and of artists such as Richard Deacon , who had left the college before his arrival . |
| 8 | Much of the credit for that must go to New Zealander George Simpkin , the man who made a name for himself as coach of Waikato and subsequently as coach of Fiji in the 1987 World Cup . |
| 9 | Shareholders of both companies should benefit from future cost reductions as duplication of operations within the merged group are eliminated . |
| 10 | Caroline Michel will run the literary group 's new marketing department , working with Frances Coady as associate publisher and as director of marketing of the four imprints , with all publicity directors reporting to her . |
| 11 | In 764 Heahberht , who had witnessed Sigered 's grant of land to Rochester in 762 , appears as king of Kent in the company of Offa and members of the Mercian nobility in Canterbury when Offa granted land to the bishop of Rochester in Kent in his own name ( CS 195 : S 105 ) , the first occasion on which a Mercian king is known to have done so , and the same land which had only recently been granted to Rochester by Sigered and Eanmund . |
| 12 | The success of Drysgol Una the Limousin cow which emerged as champion of champions in the cattle section also provided an historical link with one of the first shows . |
| 13 | As graphic corroboration of this account , heavy arrowheads from this destruction have been found in the excavations , as well as evidence of gutting of the workshops by ferocious fire . |
| 14 | Mr Nicholas Ridley , who , as secretary of state for the environment , masterminded the privatisation , likes to think of himself as a scourge of high-minded meddlers and an advocate of consumer choice . |
| 15 | Michael Heseltine , as Secretary of State for the Environment , had taken a strong line on Barlaston , using his powers to carry out emergency repairs for the first time . |
| 16 | Essentially a management tool , MINIS was strongly associated with Michael Heseltine who , as Secretary of State for the Environment , introduced MINIS into the DOE and subsequently , as Defence Secretary , into the Ministry of Defence ( MOD ) . |
| 17 | I hasten to add that when I was responsible , as Secretary of State for the Environment , for such developments in England , I found that , with certain conditions one could improve the environment over a period of years . |
| 18 | Islam relinquished his responsibilities as Secretary of State for the Interior , Immigration and Administrative Reform to Ali Mohammed Bacar . |
| 19 | As Secretary of State for the Environment he has decided the three towered 19-storey building nicknamed the toast-rack which his department works out of should be demolished . |
| 20 | The appointment of John Moore in 1987 as Secretary of State at the DHSS was seen by some as a signal that the welfare programme would receive a dose of Thatcherism . |
| 21 | Auerbach unites the portrait as depiction of object with the portrait as site of subjectivities . |
| 22 | After Sloane had quickly gained his degree as Doctor of Medicine from the University of Orange ( southern France ) in 1683 , he continued his medical studies at Montpellier under another botanist , Pierre Magnol . |
| 23 | Local authorities house people from the waiting-list on the basis of a points system , which varies between different local authorities , points being gained according to such criteria as length of time on the waiting-list , current housing situation , numbers of children , and so on . |
| 24 | During the Saxon rebellions , however , general looting was allowed as form of punishment for the rebels and as part of a considered plan of devastation . |
| 25 | When Winston Churchill visited East Africa in 1906 as Under-Secretary of State for the colonies , his private coach was frequently detached at station sidings along the line so that the distinguished Nimrod could go hunting near by . |
| 26 | Strasser , who had led the coup , was later named Head of State as well as Minister of Defence in the new Cabinet . |
| 27 | Rodolfo Biazon to succeed Gen. Renato de Villa as Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines when the latter 's three-year term ended in January 1991 . |
| 28 | Dan Shomron as Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces ( IDF ) on April 1 [ see p. 35352 for appointment of Lt.-Gen. |
| 29 | Thereafter , as Chief of Staff under the new government and then Defence Secretary , Ramos had given unswerving loyalty to Aquino , the single most important factor in enabling her to defeat numerous coup attempts . |
| 30 | Thereafter , as Chief of Staff under the new government and then Defence Secretary , his unswerving loyalty was the single most important factor in Aquino 's defeat of the numerous coup attempts against her . |