Example sentences of "[verb] as the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the QT Meeting on the 7th has indicated that she is feeling a little better and for the time being is willing to continue as the Teachers ' Representative , however , it is possible that in the future she may require assistance to carry out her duties . |
| 2 | And indeed he has been nominated as the centrists ' candidate in the presidential election due in 1996 ( but likely to be held earlier ) . |
| 3 | Agreement between ( the Insurers ) and ( the Society ) in relation to policies of insurance issued by the Insurers in the joint names of the Society and any of its borrowers on properties mortgaged to the Society and for which the Society does not act as the Insurers ' agent for the collection of premiums . |
| 4 | In 1983 Philip Hollins , audit partner at accountants Hacker Young , was asked if his firm would act as the Halls ' auditor . |
| 5 | If nothing else , the Christmas editions of NME , Sounds , and Melody Maker are a barometer of hip opinion , although not so revealing as the readers ' polls which follow a couple of months later . |
| 6 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |
| 7 | By a notice of appeal dated 18 February 1991 the second defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that the judge erred ( 1 ) in concluding that the first defendant was not acting as the plaintiffs ' agent when he procured the signature of the second defendant to the legal charge dated 3 July 1987 ; and ( 2 ) in not finding that the execution of the charge was procured by the undue influence and material misrepresentation of the first defendant and thereby in not setting aside the charge . |
| 8 | The parties of the centre-right coalition suffered substantial losses in nationwide local elections on Oct. 18 in what was widely seen as the voters ' initial verdict on the austerity measures . |
| 9 | Saynor was acclaimed as the supporters ' player of the year and as the players ' choice . |
| 10 | Meretz had three components — Mapam , Shinui ( " Centre Party " ) and Ratz ( also known as the Citizens ' Rights Movement ) . |
| 11 | On June 18 the EDUP ( until May 1990 known as the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia — WPE ) was declared illegal . |
| 12 | MANCHESTER United have emerged as the bookies ' clear favourites to lift the Premier League title . |
| 13 | It misses the significance of the points : first , that the occasional engagement of trade unionism in the promotion of industrial co-operatives had been tactical and opportunistic , rather than principled ; and second , that Co-operation identified as the Consumers ' Movement had opposed any significant role for the industrial co-operative , properly so-called . |
| 14 | So , it 's stuck with defending this form of public housing in the face of mass dissidence within the working class itself , not so much with the principle of council housing as the tenants ' lack of control over design and management . |
| 15 | Rebel Ruddock emerged as the players ' spokesman for Venables , speaking up for him in the High Court yesterday , having already slapped in a transfer request to Sugar . |
| 16 | There were competitors , but eventually Wisden outstripped these rivals and emerged as the cricketers ' bible . |
| 17 | The Soviet president was able to end the strike of 1989 by posing as the miners ' ally . |
| 18 | I now come to what I regard as the plaintiffs ' most convincing argument , namely , that paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order , combined with the letter dated 23 October 1991 from the Crown Prosecution Service , provides effective protection for the defendants against the criminal consequences of having to disclose incriminating information or documents by virtue of paragraphs 18(a) and ( c ) and 19(a) and ( c ) of the order . |
| 19 | Too simple a judgment perhaps : it might better be said that , manifested as the Consumers ' Movement , Co-operation had become an alternative presentation of the rights of ownership against the rights of labour , while trade unionism existed to assert the rights of labour against those of ownership . |
| 20 | ‘ Wisden ’ is widely hailed as the cricketers ' bible , but it has barely progressed beyond Chronicles ( the match reports ) and the Book of Numbers ( the records section ) . |
| 21 | The solution would be a corollary to what lawyers see as the accountants ' distinct advantage of a more continuous and broader based role through the company audit . |