Example sentences of "as [art] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The audience is blithely unconcerned as the rats ' rancid pink tongues stretch out to lick gently at pink heels . |
| 3 | MANCHESTER United have emerged as the bookies ' clear favourites to lift the Premier League title . |
| 4 | The main sources for the movement as it developed between 1880 and the early 1900s , were University Settlement Houses , Public School Missions , the ‘ Independents ’ , and the motley collection of local parish clubs and others , many of which were affiliated to larger parent organizations , such as the Girls ' Friendly Society , BB , YMCA , the Wesley Guild of Youth , and the Army Cadets . |
| 5 | The completed report cards were then passed on to the SCC for discussion , after which the details would be forwarded to either the association of SCCs ( covering a wider area than a single school ) , the ASEA , or to some other agency , such as the Girls ' Friendly Society , the Metropolitan Society for Befriending Young Servants or the Recreational Evening Schools Association . |
| 6 | The notion of friendship between classes also motivated organisations such as the Girls ' Friendly Society and the Metropolitan Society for Befriending Young Servants . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Connie Hedegaard took over from Engell as the Conservatives ' parliamentary leader . |
| 10 | For years the result has been frequent power blackouts for Orcadians as the birds ' elaborate home-making habits — incorporating everything from barbed wire and steel mesh to tin cans and nails — caused the electricity supply to short-circuit . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Giants ' starting pitcher , Rick Reuschel , was driven from the game after only 18 pitches as the Cubs ' lead-off man , Jerome Walton , had two first-inning hits and Mark Grace three hits and four runs batted in . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Prior to the 1970s most banks relied on their networks of overseas correspondent banks ( sometimes referred to as the banks ' own banking system ) to meet customer needs as regards international trade payments and finance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No targets have been set to reduce air pollution , despite the enormous increase that will inevitably result from greater car and lorry mileages as the governments ' huge road-building programme is implemented . |
| 19 | 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 . |