Example sentences of "[noun sg] as the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 . |