Example sentences of "[noun prp] as [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A period of ‘ decline interrupted only by slump ’ has settled on the town from the incorporation in 1877 of West Hartlepool , an economic historian 's analysis which could have doubled on Saturday as programme notes at the Victoria Ground . |
| 2 | Last summer saw violence at Blackbird Leys as things came to a head … with petrol bombs and bricks . |
| 3 | McGreevy saved well from McIlroy as Swifts pressed for an equaliser and on the stroke of half-time Patterson made a good save from McDonagh . |
| 4 | ‘ Hard day at the office , dear ? ’ chuckled Robinson as Porter crossed to the sink and began splashing his face with water . |
| 5 | Mum was the word in Bournemouth as work proceeded at a feverish pitch on a stunning new exhibition at the ExpoCentre . |
| 6 | ‘ It is n't visiting time , you know , ’ she told Meg as Meg knocked on the open door . |
| 7 | The ECRS argued the case for official recognition before the appropriate committee of the European Parliament at Strasbourg on the 23rd September 1987 , when John Young as spokesman submitted to the committee a draft regulation for consideration by the European Parliament . |
| 8 | Interior Minister Shaikh Ahmad Hammoud al Jabir as Sabah confirmed in a newspaper interview published on Dec. 26 that Kuwait was to build a security fence along the length of its 250-km border with Iraq . |
| 9 | Plants are closing all over Europe as recession deepens on the continent and particular industries make the painful adjustments to their own private new world orders , but the announcement that Digital Equipment Corp was to close its venerable 22-year-old manufacturing plant in Galway has drawn international attention that far exceeds anything generated by threatened closures such as the even more venerable truck plant that is almost the only employer in the Lancashire town of Leyland , and involved a threat to many more jobs . |
| 10 | A TEAM of expert mountaineers were called into Darlington as work continues on the Cornmill Shopping Centre . |
| 11 | ‘ Now what ? ’ said Rohmer as Gilbert fumbled at the plinth and found a torch . |
| 12 | They were introduced to one another by a woman friend who thought they should get on well in London as Margaret came of a better family and knew the people , and Ivy had the money . |
| 13 | In 1670–71 the government briefly lost control of a vast area from the Don to the Volga as peasants rallied under the leadership of a Don Cossack named Stenka Razin . |
| 14 | The guard was talking to Evans as Morgan glared at the screen , then took out a cigar and clamped his teeth on it . |
| 15 | Nina looked at Rachel as Louise hurried from the room . |
| 16 | ‘ This is Elizabeth , ’ said Betty as Lydia walked into the kitchen , wearing grey . |