Example sentences of "[vb past] as [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bishop Crowley appointed as Chairman of CAFOD in 1988 . |
| 2 | General Mola sacked as Chief of staff ( March 1936 ) , Franco dismissed as Governor of Canary Islands ( March 1936 ) . |
| 3 | Iraq pressed for an ICRC investigation by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) into these reports , which it regarded as evidence of US war crimes . |
| 4 | In December 1941 , 2/2 Company sailed as part of Sparrow Force , 2,000 men in all mainly from the 2/40 Battalion going to reinforce the Dutch on western Timor , an island seventeen times the area of England and Wales , about 300 miles ( 480+km ) long and on average 40 miles ( 64km ) wide . |
| 5 | My reporting for the Times-Herald under the avuncular guidance of Fred Workman ran the whole spectrum of events , incidents and activities : I spent days at the annual Wild West Rodeo and Stampede absorbing as much of the cowboy lingo as possible ; I acted as Master of Ceremonies for a fox trot competition sponsored by Cal Temple and Trudie , his business-like wife ; I interviewed all visiting celebrities including MacKenzie King , the Prime Minister , and R.B. Bennett , the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa ; I interviewed Jimmy Gardiner as Minister of Agriculture , after he gave up his post as Premier of Saskatchewan ; I covered celebrity concerts and the annual Chatauqua programmes , among many other things . |
| 6 | He was an esquire of the king 's body and had links with other lords in the north west and north Wales , including the Stanleys and Anthony earl Rivers , for whom he acted as deputy of Beaumaris . |
| 7 | He was an esquire of the king 's body and had links with other lords in the north west and north Wales , including the Stanleys and Anthony earl Rivers , for whom he acted as deputy of Beaumaris . |
| 8 | During the Boer War he acted as chief of staff to French . |
| 9 | He filled the central midfield vacancy created by the injury to Paul Bracewell , but never quite reproduced the form he showed as captain of Leeds . |
| 10 | He had served in France in the First World War , commanded West Point , and served as chief of staff of the army before his able leadership of the allied forces in the south-west Pacific from 1942 to 1945 . |
| 11 | Their only child , Sean , was to lead a varied career in which he served as chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army , minister for external affairs of the Irish Republic , and United Nations commissioner for Namibia . |
| 12 | Interest in local politics led him to become a member of Liverpool town council and Lancashire county council ; he also served as chairman of Liverpool chamber of commerce . |
| 13 | Few , however , could have imagined that the man who once served as chairman of Clitheroe Young Conservatives would be asked to don the cocked hat and plumes of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda . |
| 14 | He also served as Secretary of WACC 's African Regional Association for some years . |
| 15 | Despite his aspirations to poetry , he became better-known as a prose writer in his minutes and despatches as a statesman , for ‘ Owen Meredith ’ , better known to history as Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton , first Earl of Lytton ( 1831–91 ) , became a distinguished diplomat , the climax of his career coming in 1876–80 when he served as Viceroy of India and in that capacity proclaimed Queen Victoria as Empress at Delhi in 1877 . |
| 16 | He bought a country estate at Knowle , Warwickshire , for £10,000 and he twice served as mayor of Warwick , in 1713–14 and 1728–9 . |
| 17 | In 1829–30 , like his father before him , he served as mayor of Kendal , and in addition to the house he had built for himself in the town ( c .1823 ) he had a country property in Lindale , Lancashire , which he inherited from his father , and he later built an occasional residence in nearby Grange-over-Sands . |
| 18 | Most of the supply industry 's generating expertise had previously been in the larger power companies and municipalities ( which had been in the forefront of developing the more advanced power stations ) , but the first power company engineer they recruited as head of generation design fell ill shortly afterwards and died . |
| 19 | I hear , I , I , I think there is a tendency with the County Council but as I discovered as Chairman of Highways that members want to take a greater interest and to have a greater say on the items on the agenda now planning is is not a controversial as , as say highway items , but nevertheless I think there will be times and there will be agendas which will require a great deal of discussion on the individual items and I 'm also a great believer bearing in mind comments if it ai n't broke , do n't bend it . |
| 20 | Walton describes a dramatic scene at Wilton , the seat of the head of the Herbert family , the Earl of Pembroke , when the King and court were there : the Earl offered George the presentation to the living of Bemerton nearby ; his expressions of unworthiness to undertake a cure of souls were peremptorily overruled as sinful by Bishop Laud ; a tailor was summoned to make his canonical clothes , and he was ordained priest and inducted as Vicar of Bemerton next day . |
| 21 | Hamilton returned full-time to the ministry , and died as Vicar of St. Chad 's , Handforth , on 10th March 1895 . |
| 22 | Neither Taskopruzade nor Mecdi gives any clue concerning the date of Molla Arab 's appointment to the Muftilik ( beyond the fact that it is implicit that it occurred in the reign of Bayezid II ) , although both state that he died as Mufti of Istanbul in 901/1495–6 . |
| 23 | He emerged as president of France as Prince Louis Napoleon in eighteen forty eight and he er he erm achieves power by coup d'etat and becomes emperor in eighteen fifty two . |
| 24 | Gerald Ratner resigned as head of Ratner 's UK jewellery business . |
| 25 | DICK Corden yesterday resigned as chairman of Darlington Football Club which is threatened with relegation . |
| 26 | Etienne Goyemido resigned as Minister of Primary , Secondary and Technical Education and of Youth and Sports on May 2 in protest at the dismissal of four teachers and a watchman . |
| 27 | Maneka Gandhi resigned as Minister of State for Environment and Forests on Oct. 26 [ for her appointment to the post in December 1989 see p. 37125 ] . |
| 28 | K. Ramamurthy resigned as Minister of State ( independent charge ) for Labour on July 29 after accusing Rao of failing to solve a dispute between the neighbouring southern states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the sharing of the waters of the Cauvary River . |
| 29 | Maneka Gandhi resigned as Minister of State for Environment and Forests in October [ see p. 37774 ] . |
| 30 | On March 28 , 1990 , Ervin Knowles resigned as Minister of Agriculture , Trade and Industry after being accused by members of the parliamentary opposition of corruption and nepotism in his role as chairman of the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation ( BAIC ) . |