Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] as the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also given a key role in the last election campaign as the Tories ' Mr Nasty who could be called upon to make all kinds of claims about Labour 's plans . |
| 2 | And the accumulation of capital has been internationalized by the internationalization of production : it has generated flows of direct investment as multinationals expand their enterprises in different countries and it has also indirectly generated flows of portfolio investment as the multinationals ' cash and financing needs have been channelled through the financial markets of the City , New York and Tokyo . |
| 3 | A large proportion of export earnings was required simply to service this borrowing and was not therefore being reinvested in the domestic manufacturing sector as the reformers ' plans envisaged . |
| 4 | These and even later attempts to resurrect ‘ planning ’ , especially economic planning , raise the basic difficulty in seeing the Second World War as the planners ' triumph . |
| 5 | They went without a hope and they came back , it seemed , without a friend , perilously close to reaching mother-in-law status as the comedians ' favourite butt . |