Example sentences of "[vb past] as one [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighty years later Immanuel Kant , in his Zum Ewigen Frieden , ein philosophisches Entwurf ( 1795 ) proposed as one of the preliminary conditions of a lasting peace that no State should ever pass under the control of another by any means — inheritance , exchange , purchase or donation as well as conquest . |
| 2 | Then we stopped as one of the Santa Claus girls had to go to the loo and anyway we 'd forgotten the leaflets they were supposed to dish out . |
| 3 | The Bhagavad Gita Regarded as one of the finest religious poems in the world , the Bhagavad Gita forms one of the most important sacred texts of Hinduism . |
| 4 | But Simon Fowler , Stockton North Conservative candidate hit back , saying he was ‘ fed up ’ with North Tees Hospital , which he regarded as one of the best institutions in the area , being ‘ slagged off ’ by Mr Cook . |
| 5 | Writing in 1900 , the German architect and critic Hermann Muthesius identified as one of the most significant developments in European architecture the tendency of certain British architects towards what he described as a ‘ modern ’ style , which referred to no tradition , and created a new architectural language of space and mass . |
| 6 | In the courtyard a chicken shrieked as one of the wives wrung its neck . |
| 7 | Seventeen years later , then Flight Lieutenant Reif , he flew as one of the first navigators in 2 Squadron Canberras when that unit deployed to South Vietnam in April 1967 . |
| 8 | I watched as one of the men , squatting down by the boar , made a deep incision along the underside from chest to groin , then hacked through the ribs and breast-bone with an adze . |
| 9 | Astonishment rounding her eyes , Gina watched as one of the band handed him a trumpet . |
| 10 | As though they were seeing actors on a stage , Seb and Melody watched as one of the two riders suddenly kneed his horse forward . |
| 11 | Most of the CEB men , Hacking included , saw as one of the great prizes of nationalisation the possibility of escaping from the voluntarism which had characterised their former relations with the undertakings . |
| 12 | This quickly emerged as one of the most avant-garde of the new Mexican galleries , and the locus of a group of young artists , including José Luis Cuevas , who ‘ with no fixed programme and no common plastic language , [ … ] were united only by the desire for change ’ . |
| 13 | As it is , he emerged as one of the few Democrats to have had a ‘ good war ’ . |
| 14 | During the Oxford Movement a translation of the Greek passages by J. H. Newman appeared as one of the Tracts for the Times , and a translation of those from the Latin by J. M. Neale was also published . |
| 15 | Next up was a hard-looking fellow I remembered as one of the surviving Africa veterans , a prodigal who 'd been seduced by Martinho but had redeemed himself by daring and sacrifice under Osvaldo — I was surprised he was still alive . |
| 16 | Then he waited as one of the two Han brought him anti-static slippers while the other combed and plaited his hair . |
| 17 | Suddenly , all three of them froze as one of the inner walls appeared to vibrate and move . |
| 18 | How can I communicate that auditory shock , that dumbstruck astonishment I experienced as one of the first privileged listeners … |
| 19 | ‘ Guyana , ’ she lilted as one of the keys on her ring opened the topmost door on the last floor of the ramshackle old house . |
| 20 | He sat as one of the justices of King 's Bench in Easter term 1271 but never became a regular justice of the court . |
| 21 | It remained as one of the Abbey 's treasures until it was stolen some years ago . |
| 22 | I jumped as one of the shutters suddenly rattled . |