Example sentences of "[that] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet in its closing passages we learn that as a poet he had ‘ no real predecessors ’ . |
| 2 | One problem with this cosy consensus , and its greatest irony , is that as a nation we take our pubs too much for granted . |
| 3 | Therefore it seemed fitting that as a tribute to him and his comrades I produce a sculpture with this tool . |
| 4 | But there is little doubt that charter-train profit can be read in seven-figure sums rather than six and that as a business venture , InterCity has not done badly at all . |
| 5 | Others before Frank Kermode , in his suave and erudite but ultimately acidulous The Classic ( New York , 1975 ) , had protested that as a framework inside which real political decisions and actions could be taken , Eliot 's Virgilian-Dantesque perspective was not just useless but dangerous . |
| 6 | He acknowledges that as a result , the consumer finance and investment markets are very competitive , not least in France where savers now have more faith in money , as distinct from assets , and the big banks are muscling in . |
| 7 | IAN BOTHAM , cricket 's most entertaining all rounder , showed last night that as a comedian he is a great batsman and an even better bowler . |
| 8 | It was during this time that as a senior staff officer of V Corps he had been involved with some of the orders to repatriate the Russian and Yugoslav prisoners . |
| 9 | But she maintains that as a percentage of all children seen over the five months , the numbers in which they first raised the question of possible abuse were little larger than those found in a recent survey by the NSPCC in a dozen areas of England . |
| 10 | Leo McKern has some fun answering frequent calls of nature and waving a huge condom around , but he 's doing no more or less than passing the time until the phoney climax of the First Act curtain , by which time you 're aware that as a play Boswell is a fraud . |
| 11 | The British Medical Association has said that if the legislation does require authorities to keep to drug budgets , the association will see that as a cash limit and cry ‘ foul ’ after accepting assurances from Mr Clarke last week that budgets would not operate as cash limits . |
| 12 | As for government mistakes , he said : ‘ I think that as a consequence of the Stock Exchange crash in 1987 , when the richest countries in the world all decided collectively to avoid a 1930s-type recession , and collectively there was an expansionist policy followed across the world and the tap marked ‘ money ’ was turned on , perhaps that tap was left on too long ; not only in our country but in other countries as well . ’ |
| 13 | In fact , his ‘ book of the series ’ is a very good read , although he fears that as a TV-linked publication it is unlikely to get serious reveiws . |
| 14 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 15 | This was not always successful because of the autonomy neighbourhood police have while on the beat , and he told us , with some regret , that as a final resort he was instructed by the sergeant not to take his book of fixed-penalty tickets with him when he was accompanied by the field-worker . |
| 16 | He said that as a boy at school he had such experiences and wondered whether they were like Michael 's . |
| 17 | Ramsey knew that as a bishop he had a teaching ministry , and that this needed a journal which was more than diocesan news . |
| 18 | In Capital Marx argues that as a result of the peculiar history of capitalism , the capitalist , who is really a parasite on the workers , is represented as though he were the opposite ; as the source of production and the benefactor of the workers . |
| 19 | The reason was that as a result of bullying some Asian children were afraid to eat Indian food at school . |
| 20 | Although that is the position in law , the court emphasised that as a matter of commonsense a tenant should first complain to the landlord before exercising the right to prosecute . |
| 21 | His Lordship reached that decision without enthusiasm because it seemed that as a matter of common sense , notice should be given in such circumstances before criminal proceedings were launched . |
| 22 | The four-man team presented its report to the Attorney General for the Free State , Mr T.P. McNally , who has been mandated to investigate charges by a former policeman that as a member of a ‘ police murder unit ’ he took part in at least eight murders . |
| 23 | Mr De Haan said the original reason for going public was his father 's concern that as a private company , with no market in its shares , the family might one day be faced with the prospect of having to sell the entire business to meet death duties . |
| 24 | Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each . |
| 25 | The case of the two-storey extension , that as a result of an Architects advice , became a single storey extension with internal rearrangements at 60% of the budgeted cost illustrating the point . |
| 26 | It was one of her many advantages that as a professional civil servant herself she understood the constraints of his career . |
| 27 | They feel that , on alcohol advertising in particular , the EC has ducked the issues posed by a single market and satellite broadcasting ; and that as a result regulations may be cut back to the loosest common denominator . |
| 28 | He has recalled drily that as a schoolboy he found it easy to get his own way . |
| 29 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 30 | Also , I learned to appreciate that as a critic you say what you have to say and go on to the next thing in LA you never go on to the next thing . ’ |