Example sentences of "as [pron] saw in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( But , as we saw in the Faulhaber example , not all average cost prices are sustainable in general . ) |
| 2 | As we saw in the case of the bacteria on a pin 's head , successive splittings into two can generate a very large number of cells in rather a short time . |
| 3 | Just as we saw in the case of a bank 's assets , these two criteria tend to conflict . |
| 4 | But , as we saw in the discussion of neoclassicism , it was unrealistic to suppose that questions of intent and responsibility could be abandoned . |
| 5 | I am not suggesting that it is proven that our motives , reasons and purposes are not themselves reducible to mechanically operating causal factors , as a fully determinist model would have it ; but if that is the case , we are so far from being able to specify these factors that they do not offer a model we can actually work with — as we saw in the discussion of positivist criminology in Chapter 2 . |
| 6 | Of course , this reflects the very different role of the American courts vis-a-vis other governmental institutions but , as we saw in the discussion of courts and rights ( chapter 18 ) , if one has no right to information it becomes extremely difficult to exercise all manner of other rights . |
| 7 | There are still problems to iron out , and as we saw in the passage by Ross , there are still inconsistencies . |
| 8 | As we saw in the chapter dealing with rules , it is not enough for your punch to be an effective scoring technique ; it must be seen to be so , and this entails making its success obvious . |
| 9 | The form that literary studies had taken during the second half of the nineteenth century , positivism , was , as we saw in the Introduction , largely based on the genetic approach ; critics , or rather scholars , concentrated their energies on uncovering the sources and genesis of particular works , and the role of biography , history and history of ideas in these genetic studies obviously reduced the importance of literature itself in literary scholarship . |
| 10 | Feelings , as we saw in the entry under that heading ( see pages 66 to 69 ) , either help or hinder your behaviour . |
| 11 | As we saw in the section on deterrence , all the evidence is that the penal system is engaging in a massive overkill operation — which amounts to a massive infringement of the human rights of those it punishes excessively . |
| 12 | As we saw in the example of the cleaner fish ( pages 186–7 ) , reciprocal altruism is not confined to members of a single species . |