Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num] as [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | President Ramiz Alia signed a decree on Feb. 11 which dissolved the People 's Assembly and set March 22 as the date for a general election . |
| 2 | Marx explained the regime of Napoleon III as an arbiter state temporarily gaining autonomy from the balance of class forces , a situation which he insisted could occur only when the transition from capitalism to socialism was already in train . |
| 3 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 4 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 5 | President Alan García , who declared Jan. 10 as a national day of mourning , came under strong pressure from leading civil servants and opposition party leaders to intensify security for former as well as present senior government officials , especially in the light of recent police intelligence reports that Sendero Luminoso planned an escalating campaign of violence to disrupt presidential elections due on April 8 . |
| 6 | The talks were scheduled to resume in early January 1991 , the Philippine government having previously set Jan. 31 as the deadline for concluding a new accord to replace the current Military Bases Agreement which was due to expire in September 1991 . |
| 7 | GATT Director-General Arthur Dunkel had set mid-April 1992 as the latest in a series of target dates for completing the talks . |
| 8 | Similarly , in 1469 he speaks of the rising against Edward IV as a whirlwind coming down from the North ( 14 , pp.531 , 542 ) . |
| 9 | Molla Yegan then presented Molla Gurani to Sultan Murad II as a " gilt " on his return . |
| 10 | As we have seen , Turkish tradition has in any case chosen to ignore this earlier tradition and to select the appointment of Molla Fenari in the time of Murad II as the starting point of the official Muftilik . |
| 11 | Peck says the St. Martin 's guild was singed out in 1388 by Richard II as an example of the corruption within the guild system , because ‘ On the feast of St. Martin … the brethren have a certain bull . ’ |
| 12 | A distinction drawn the previous day by Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok , who pointed out that the UDF was subject to restrictions but not formally banned , was dismissed by the UDF on Jan. 18 as a " play on semantics " ; moreover , the UDF had decided simply to disregard the restrictions , rather than apply to the authorities to have them lifted . |
| 13 | The fighting intensified on Jan. 11 as the previously neutral Murasad subclan entered the battle , against Farah Aydid , after the looting of the home of one of its leaders . |
| 14 | Not far up the road here is the town of Bagnères-de-Bigorre , a spa known to the Romans and envisaged by Napoleon I as the ‘ capital ’ of a Pyrenean confederation of health resorts — for a while it was given the title , which it can never have begun to merit , of ‘ the Athens of the Pyrenees ’ . |
| 15 | He was described by the Financial Times of Jan. 15 as a " safe but unimaginative choice for premier , a job which will be overwhelmingly concerned with the reform of the collapsing economy " . |
| 16 | Although Eliot expressed some liking for Edward VIII as a man , he felt he lacked character . |
| 17 | Independent within the Commonwealth since 1976 , the Republic of Seychelles was established in March 1979 as a one-party state . |
| 18 | The ultimate authority for the doctrine stems from the acceptance by the people of William III as the new monarch , and the acceptance by the courts of the new legal order founded on this doctrine as expressed legally in the common law . |
| 19 | The Tax Faculty , with a membership of 7,200 , was formed by the ICAEW Council in March 1991 as a free standing body with its own constitution within the Institute . |
| 20 | Epoch ( End Physical Punishment of Children ) is having a National ‘ No Smoking Week ’ from 31st Dec — 9th Jan 1991 as a collaborative venture between parents & children . |
| 21 | On this last point they were reassured by the Governor 's mention of December 1948 as the outside date for this . |
| 22 | Dinting Vale from an old postcard sent in May 1934 as a Robinson 2–8–0 crosses the viaduct heading a down freight . |
| 23 | Builder and councillor Cuthbert Joseph Todd presented The Pierremont Vase to the town in July 1925 as the plaque on the fountain base notes . |
| 24 | The first point to note is that since the weights are revised every January , the index for April 1985 is calculated first of all using January 1985 as the base period . |
| 25 | Pablo Escobar , the leader of the Medellín drug cartel , escaped from La Catedral prison in Envigado , a few kilometres from Medellín , on July 22 as an attempt was made to transfer him to an army barracks . |
| 26 | The President set February 1993 as the deadline for the resumption of multiparty talks , either in the context of a restructured CODESA ( Convention for a Democratic South Africa ) [ see pp. 38896-97 ; 39128 ] or a completely new forum . |
| 27 | The JNA took control of Petrinja ( 50 km south of Zagreb ) and other towns during heavy fighting on Sept. 21-22 as the French government requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council . |
| 28 | They were suspended in February 1991 as a protest by the North against the South 's annual military exercises with the United States . |
| 29 | Zhu Senlin , hitherto Canton city party secretary , was appointed on May 10 as the new acting governor of Guangdong province . |
| 30 | This sum had first been mentioned in January 1991 as the amount necessary to fund the absorption of Soviet immigrants in Israel , and in February a smaller US loan guarantee to fund the housing of immigrants had only been approved after the Israeli authorities had undertaken not to use the funds in the occupied territories [ see p. 38023-24 ] . |