Example sentences of "[noun] as [art] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depending upon the date of the interview we could predict quite well whether people would name defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme , but it was the date of the interview rather than the personal characteristics of the interviewee that mattered . |
| 2 | Whether people named defence as the Conservatives ' main campaign theme depended a great deal upon the date of the interview and rather less upon their personal characteristics or even their pattern of media use . |
| 3 | The Giants ' starting pitcher , Rick Reuschel , was driven from the game after only 18 pitches as the Cubs ' lead-off man , Jerome Walton , had two first-inning hits and Mark Grace three hits and four runs batted in . |
| 4 | Connie Hedegaard took over from Engell as the Conservatives ' parliamentary leader . |
| 5 | One can feel that the emotions in these novels are very deep as they seem to bounce off every page to reveal yet another new anguish as the protagonists ' sad , poverty stricken lives unfold . |
| 6 | If Three Mile Island and , above all , Chernobyl , had not happened , the image of civil nuclear power would ( or should ) have assumed a more friendly warmth as the superpowers ' diminishing stocks of warheads dwindled towards a largely symbolic status . |
| 7 | And a recent trip by the mayor of Las Vegas has raised hopes for the sale of the train as a gamblers ' special to link the city with Los Angeles . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For years the result has been frequent power blackouts for Orcadians as the birds ' elaborate home-making habits — incorporating everything from barbed wire and steel mesh to tin cans and nails — caused the electricity supply to short-circuit . |
| 10 | No targets have been set to reduce air pollution , despite the enormous increase that will inevitably result from greater car and lorry mileages as the governments ' huge road-building programme is implemented . |