Example sentences of "as [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 The blunt-talking Yorkshireman has been voted out as chairman of the Umpires ' Association by his fellow pros .
2 After a transitional period of three years from 1 January 1992 , such companies will only be operable as part of a solicitors ' incorporated practice .
3 The playgroup leader will usually offer her observations as part of the parents ' contribution to the Statement .
4 Copenhagen 's manager does not need to watch Linfield ; he was in Tbilisi as part of the Blues ' party and had the home match videoed .
5 It did n't help when Westminster enforced successive cuts in pay as part of the public-services ' sacrifice in relation to the national economic crisis of 1931 and 1932 .
6 As part of the pensioners ' day of action , Age Concern Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Pensioners ' Convention will launch the publication ‘ Maximising Mobility ’ .
7 Mr William Waldegrave can hardly relish his new role as guardian of the Citizens ' Charter , but may well be relieved to remain in the uppermost ranks of government at all .
8 Scanlon 's successor as President of the Engineers ' Union , Terry Duffy , was , in fact , a strongly right-wing figure anxious to reach an accommodation with the government , but naturally it would take him time to build up his authority .
9 My wife acted as housekeeper for the officers ' houses and Mrs Weaverhurst , the headmistress , took charge of St Michael 's .
10 They integrated with the Picts , the ‘ painted men ’ , finally absorbing them and their culture completely , leaving behind only robbed brochs , broken hill-forts and a few stone carvings as evidence of the Picts ' passing .
11 The other changes included the appointment of Gen. Magnus Malan , hitherto Minister of Housing and Works and of Water and Forest Affairs , as Head of the Ministers ' Council in the House of Assembly .
12 ( The libretto of Le Guy de chesne specified groups of shepherds and shepherdesses in the final pages , then a druidic march , then the ceremony , and lastly ‘ des danses vives et agreables ’ ) Indeed , it might have been the composer , Laruette , who acted as conducteur from the singers ' names in the libretto it appears that he did not sing a solo role in his own opéra .
13 During the 1650s he served as master of the Clothworkers ' Company and an assistant of the Levant Company .
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