Example sentences of "as [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Corrigan suggests that ‘ by the time the World Health Organisation have listed and checked all the herbs which could be used , doctors may find themselves prescribing herbs which were once dismissed as old wives ' tales ’ . |
| 2 | The leaders are important also because they are an essential factor in making effective political forces in this way out of more general group interests , referred to by Schumpeter as group-wise volitions ' . |
| 3 | Again some proportion ( 60 per cent ) of this additional income will leak from the circular flow while the remainder is passed on as extra consumers ' expenditure on domestic goods and services . |
| 4 | But new funds are popping up by the day — from plain-vanilla stock funds , such as National Funds ' National Global Allocation Fund , which boasts the guru-economist Henry Kaufman as its asset allocator , to exotica such as Scudder Stevens & Clark 's Short Term Global Income Fund , which will invest in short-term debt securities . |
| 5 | Moreover , they are regarded as valuable collectors ' items , not toys . |
| 6 | These may include events organised by the school such as regular parents ' evenings , careers evenings , prize-givings , Compact meetings or socials . |
| 7 | The company has concocted new gimmicks such as cut-price Mothers ' Day calls or new services such as call-blocking facilities for single women . |
| 8 | If it wins , other non-banks , such as General Motors ' finance arm and the Bell telephone companies , are likely to launch their own Visa cards . |
| 9 | A one-way outsourcing arrangement , such as General Motors ' purchases of cars and components from Daewoo in South Korea , is little more than a sophisticated version of familiar NFI agreements : they offer the supplier the opportunity to gain value-creating activities and obviate the buyer 's need to invest . |
| 10 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |