Example sentences of "as [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is our political culture more attractive if seen as accepting that virtue ? |
| 2 | The study of equilibrium growth paths , on the other hand , takes as given that investment and full employment savings are equal , and proceeds typically by analysing development over time in terms of the behaviour of savings . |
| 3 | Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University . |
| 4 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 5 | If we approach these tensions from the perspective of assuming that these represent the dialectical poles , or at least some of them ( for of course others could be discussed here had we the space : for example the tension between " knowing how " and " knowing that " in design activity ) of a design activity which encompasses all of these in a vertical moment of synthesis , a synthesis that is counterposed horizontally ( ie over time ) by the changing movements of the activity itself ( from product critique through to problem definition to cognitive modeling of potential solutions etc ) , a movement of understanding and practice which parallels in its sphere the circle of historical understanding and historical praxis ( and just as the latter is the " way in which history itself moves " so the former is the " way praxis itself moves " ) so design can be seen as embodying that movement in its movement from or across actuality ie in its activity of transformation from one set of " givens " to another ; in its movement from problem to product . |
| 6 | None of this , however , should be interpreted as implying that Semai are callous or indifferent to the welfare of their neighbours and kin , which is certainly not the case ; it merely demonstrates that another person 's problems and affairs are pre-eminently his own ; ‘ hal mai , hal mai ; hal hii ’ , hal hii' ’ is the apposite aphorism : ‘ their affairs are theirs ; our affairs are ours . ’ |
| 7 | The Report , as well as recommending that homosexual relations between adults in private should no longer be an offence , and that the age of consent should be 21 , also sought to increase substantially the maximum penalties in respect of certain offences . |
| 8 | However , it can be understood as recommending that one live in such ; way that the various aspects of one 's being are given the same degree of power as they have of innate authority . |
| 9 | Where there is a contractual right to the costs , the discretion should ordinarily be exercised as to reflect that contractual right . |
| 10 | In the evening there was an example of a shift in emphasis that was so pronounced as to cause that part of the day to become an event in its own right . |
| 11 | But one can see immediately that that is not so : the task of the modules is translation , and so the task of each translation module is therefore different ( translating a poem from English to Chinese is not the same task as translating that poem from Chinese to French ) . |
| 12 | Students may compete for the BBC Carlton Hobbs award which is given annually to two students from any of the drama schools ; the award offers a six month contract with BBC radio , as well as guaranteeing that vital entry into British Equity . |
| 13 | And , further , the equitable doctrine of Conversion operates , treating as done that which ought to be done , to effect a notional conversion in equity of the land into the proceeds of sale . |
| 14 | They indicate that their holders identify with their society and hold themselves to be under an obligation to obey the law which they regard as expressing that attitude . |
| 15 | The old bleed — overseer called me Jess after his dog as died that day . |
| 16 | The words used will be interpreted according to the so-called " golden rule " : they will be given their ordinary grammatical and literal meaning unless that produces absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy , when the literal meaning can be modified so as to avoid that absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy . |
| 17 | And it is there in his conducting of Debussy 's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , which the English Wagnerian Reginald Goodall once singled out as conducting that managed by some unique alchemy simultaneously to catch a sense of fire and ice , sultry heat and marble calm . |
| 18 | He concluded that he declined to read the Faccenda case as holding that confidential information which could not be protected by an implied term ipso facto could not be protected by a suitably limited express covenant . |
| 19 | ‘ There was also a trail of water on the floor , but would an assassin be so clumsy as to leave that ? ’ |
| 20 | Having obtained the poles of , the relevant physical transfer function is deduced by rejecting poles in the positive half of the s-plane and a network is synthesised so as to generate that transfer function . |
| 21 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 22 | They have shown that , for this case , a curvature singularity does not develop in region IV as provided that . |
| 23 | The appointment of Sapin , 39 , was seen as indicating that Bérégovoy would continue to control economic policy . |
| 24 | Having a child is an enriching thing as regards that . |
| 25 | As far as the short-term is concerned , er , part of the budget package in the current year , er , the retirement and the , the now proposal was to , to help up the side as regards that . |
| 26 | Well , th , the definition of a terminal illness as regards that is , according to the underwriters , is that the client 's life is likely to die in the next twelve months . |
| 27 | The letter quotes Black as saying that white and Navajo ranchers ‘ misrepresent ’ their livestock losses and ‘ blame everything on coyotes ’ . |
| 28 | Sr Samaranch is on record as saying that equestrian sports , boxing , modern pentathlon , canoeing and Greco-Roman wrestling should be ditched by the year 2000 . |
| 29 | Another Scottish employer is quoted by Macdonald as saying that " given a certain area of floor space for men and women , on the former would probably be produced half more than on the latter " . " |
| 30 | In Richmal Crompton 's School Is a Waste of Time ! , which we have recently published , he is recorded as saying that MP 's ‘ have n't anything to do but make speeches and they need n't even make speeches if they do n't feel like it and they 're paid money whether they make speeches or not , which seems very nice for the MPs … |