Example sentences of "the [noun sg] as a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | But they did not want to offend the public ; and , most important , they had billed the march as a civil-rights story . |
2 | The bequest is described as a legatum but the action as a fideicommissi persecutio . |
3 | ‘ Jones was at the club as a YTS player when I arrived . |
4 | yep If the procedure owner thinks that more substantial discussions are needed then we prepare something based on model assignments paper which summarises the erm , in put so far making the proposal as a bases . |
5 | Myeloski was beginning to realize that he could be taking on forces that encompassed the very people who ran the Soviet Union , the powermasters who employed him to keep the peace as a police officer . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Taxing work , determination , application , steadfastness , resilience : these were some of the qualities needed to make the grade as a sportsmen even at the more modest levels . |
8 | But old Hoggatt founded the place as a police lab , and when the chips are down that 's what it 's all about . |
9 | The trial concerns the death of Alan ’ Chalky ’ White , described by the prosecution as a Police informer . |
10 | Gardiner from Stroud in Gloucestershire arrived by prison bus for the start of his retrial for the murder of Alan Chalky White , a man described by the prosecution as a police informer . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | ‘ It was pretty close for a while , but in the last two sets I got run over by a Mack truck , ’ said Navratilova , who told the crowd that next year will probably be her last year of competing on the tour as a singles player . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | We run the agency as a workers ’ co-operative , and we all share in the profits . ’ |
15 | North also testified that Poindexter had destroyed a document signed by the then President , Ronald Reagan , which had characterized the shipment as an arms-for-hostages arrangement . |
16 | 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 . |