Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [art] [noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His expertise as a children 's bookseller was highly valued by his colleagues , and he made a great contribution over a number of years to the work of the BA 's Children 's Executive , as a member and , more recently , as a vice-chairman . |
| 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 | By the beginning of 1982 a team had been recruited to develop the BDA as a consumers ' organisation and pressure group with the primary aim of eliminating discrimination against deaf people and of improving their quality of life . |
| 4 | But his resistance was doomed to failure as the courtiers ' position was confirmed by several royal decrees . |
| 5 | At the same time they have kept their support tepid enough not to threaten their pose as the Palestinians ' champion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She was fifteen , lithe , conscious of her own body and beautiful in her art , and all the while as the spectators ' enthusiasm grew her father watched her , drinking Jerez , nodding his head and smiling . |
| 8 | LONG before England came such a cropper at Lansdowne Road , there were many besides the Scots among the British rugby fraternity who were already positive that Gavin Hastings would be revealed this morning as the Lions ' captain for the forthcoming tour of New Zealand . |
| 9 | It is reserved for use as a children 's play area . |
| 10 | He has calmly continued to assert the nursing voice , adroitly altering the popular subservient image of the nurse to one of deep political and personal conscientiousness as the patients ' advocate and closest ally . |
| 11 | For Norwich , without a goal since December 5 , this third successive blank gave more ammunition to those who haughtily dismiss their title challenge as a peasants ' revolt from the shires . |
| 12 | This looked forward to the main role of the Bank as the bankers ' bank and , eventually , to the normal settling of inter-bank debts through it . |
| 13 | Rugby has long prided itself on its image as a players ' game and any ‘ play to entertain ’ push could only accelerate the drift towards professionalism . |
| 14 | From the famous cloth markets , which first identified the city as a bargain-hunters ' paradise , to the splendour of the Victorian shopping arcades , Leeds has always had the leading edge in retail . |
| 15 | The fact that Oslear has been stripped of his position as the umpires ' boss at their annual meeting , means that Palmer , Hampshire and the England team now fear Allan Lamb 's sensational Daily Mirror revelations may never be backed by cricket 's dithering chiefs at the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 16 | Instead Rory had found out only when Ken had had his first story published , and now it was as though they were passing each other travelling in opposite directions ; Ken slowly but surely building up a reputation as a children 's story-teller while his own supposed career as a professional recounter of traveller 's tales sank gradually in the west . |
| 17 | There is one aspect to Home Alone 2 which calls into question its appeal as a children 's movie . |
| 18 | testing DC 's effectiveness as a searchers ' tool . |
| 19 | One of the most hardline speeches was by V. Shabonov , a factory foreman from Saratov , who told the plenum : " A few scientists , informal groups , various nationalities and black marketeers have led the country down the road to bourgeois reforms , restoration of private property , political anarchy and the destruction of the party as a workers ' vanguard . |