Example sentences of "[verb] as [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his new lease of life has saved Blackburn manager Dalglish from dipping further into Walker 's personal fortune to reinforce a position once regarded as Rovers ' weak link — but now recognised as a pillar of strength . |
| 2 | NeXT says it also has a $3m contract for 400 NeXTstation computers over the next 18 months from Mobil Oil Corp 's Mobil Sales & Supply Corp , which wants them to serve as traders ' workstations . |
| 3 | Consumption is seen as households ' spending on goods and services which yield utility in the current period , while saving is defined as that part of disposable income which is not spent . |
| 4 | Local women often acted as pawnbrokers ' touts , collecting clothing and other items for 7.5 to 15 per cent of the takings . |
| 5 | The Princess Royal Trust would like as carers ' centre in each major town . |
| 6 | But it was heartened by a reference elsewhere in the legislation that GPs could exceed their drugs budgets if they had ‘ good cause ’ — a term which the BMA will interpret as patients ' needs . |
| 7 | Such cheques are known as bankers ' drafts . |
| 8 | Financial and legal pressures have forced councils to hand over debt recovery to private agents known as sheriffs ' officers — Scottish bailiffs — in a surprisingly clinical fashion . |
| 9 | In past centuries the cattle of Wales became well known as graziers ' stock in the English Midlands in particular , where considerable herds of steers were traditionally fattened on grass or winter-yarded . |
| 10 | Ian McGeechan , who stepped down as Scotland 's coach this month , had already been appointed as Lions ' coach against the All-Blacks . |
| 11 | Ian McGeechan , who stepped down as Scotland 's coach this month , had already been appointed as Lions ' coach against the All-Blacks . |
| 12 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 13 | But , if equity shares or rights to them are to be issued in other circumstances , they first have to be offered to all equity shareholders in proportion to their holdings whether or not these were acquired as subscribers ' shares , bonus shares or pursuant to an employees ' share scheme . |