Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] as the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 2 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 3 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 4 | Civil rights , the Black problem , race relations , the inequality of blacks in American life — whatever form of words was used to describe this issue , most Americans of the middle years of the 20th century saw it as the gravest problem facing them at home . |
| 5 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 6 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |