Example sentences of "the [noun] as [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Television augmented and soon overtook the cinema as the masses ' most popular form of entertainment . |
2 | The Italian capital was experiencing , even by its own standards , a heatwave , and the two hotels that were provided by the authorities as the Athletes ' Village were of a mediocre calibre . |
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 | In May 1988 , the government responded to these complaints ( prodded no doubt by criticism from the IMF as the debtors ' watchdog ) with a series of new decrees , labelled the New Industrial policy . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |