Example sentences of "[noun] as [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was partly due to the development of improved building techniques but was also because — until , that is , the recent property crash — growing rental income and lowering yields encouraged developers and landlords to think of new offices as investments that would increase in value year on year . |
| 2 | The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ? |
| 3 | Those who feel hostile to much recent literary theory but are unwilling or unable to formulate their objections often lazily dismiss it as merely another Parisian fashion , citing the rapid displacement or structuralism by poststructuralism as evidence that the writings or Barthes , Derrida , Lacan and their American epigones constitute a craze rather than a serious intellectual movement . |
| 4 | What is different about human communication is the use of noises as symbols that represent a quite unassociated meaning . |
| 5 | And Rank interpreted his own difficulty in understanding The Red Shoes as evidence that he had a disaster on his hands . |
| 6 | They also found glowing ash as evidence that papers had been destroyed . |
| 7 | They reported that lorry-loads of files and documents had been taken from the bunker during the last few days , and said they had found glowing ash as evidence that papers had been destroyed . |
| 8 | It is a fundamental basis of the older religions and such crafts as astrology that there is ultimately no real distinction between that within us and that outside us . |
| 9 | He wanted to look at the contract and check it out and really , with no trouble at all — I think he wrote a couple of letters and said that Pitt was not acting in the capacity as manager that David required and that was that . ’ |
| 10 | But there was something about them , maybe their mohair suits , maybe the hard men they imported from Glasgow or maybe their bonding as brothers that made them seem glamorous . |
| 11 | Often it is our anxiety as onlookers that is the motivating force to ‘ get things talked about ’ , not the wishes of those involved . |
| 12 | The writer of this extract may have felt that she or he was paraphrasing rather than plagiarising , and might point to the reference made in the extract to Leech and Short as evidence that she or he was not being dishonest . |
| 13 | The citation only of India , ranked 27th in US overseas markets and with a bilateral trade surplus of $850,000,000 , accounting for only 1 per cent of the US deficit , was seen by most observers as evidence that the administration was anxious not to create ill feeling which might jeopardize the " Uruguay Round " of the multinational trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 14 | By the end of the year the country had become a republic and the king was on trial for his life ; the Girondins were losing their command of the situation , and some critics have seen Wordsworth 's departure from the scene at this point as evidence that he foresaw their fall from power ( which took place in the summer of 1793 ) . |
| 15 | Just as officialdom saw the legendary return of salmon to the Thames as evidence that Britain 's water pollution was cured , so it gloried in the Clean Air Acts of the 1950s and turned a ‘ blind eye ’ to dying lakes , moribund trees and the links between car exhaust and human health that became apparent in the 1980s . |
| 16 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 785 ) records immediately after the appointment of Hygeberht as archbishop that Offa 's son , Ecgfrith , was consecrated king , by implication by Hygeberht . |
| 17 | The Enterprise for the Americas Initiative , launched by United States President Bush in June [ see pp. 37526 ; 37914 ] was welcomed by all governments as evidence that the US government wished to create a new and more equal relationship with the region by fostering strong investment and trade ties , beginning with talks on a free-trade agreement with Mexico [ see pp. 37849 ; 38140 ] . |
| 18 | While I will argue that structuralism offers a way of understanding knowledge as language that can be related to other social practices without reduction to an individual knowing subject , it is to the Marxist theory of ideology that I will turn to help describe the nature of the relationship . |
| 19 | The fact that Mannheim considered as ‘ knowledge ’ the presuppositions which constitute the world-view of a social group and consequently affect all knowledge seemed to escape Merton who categorized knowledge as ideas that ‘ perform different functions ’ ( Merton 1957 : 497 ) . |
| 20 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 21 | Experiences that inhibit us as learners can be just as important in this respect as experiences that help . |
| 22 | But to take such comments as proof that de Gaulle already knew what he would have to do in 1962 is a leap made only by Gaullists predisposed to elevate the General 's prescience to superhuman levels or by fanatical anti-Gaullists predisposed to exaggerate the depths of his duplicity . |
| 23 | The good wishes emanating from all parts of Anfield were echoed throughout the game as news that an apparently superfit former Scotland international was in hospital requiring major surgery . |
| 24 | Jesus is God ‘ incognito ’ : it is of the very nature of the presence of God as man that it must be ambiguous , that it may not be recognised by everyone , that the ‘ sign ’ by its very nature may be ‘ spoken against ’ . |
| 25 | They will be of limited use as evidence that system requirements are being met . |
| 26 | Many chairmen took this faster expansion of off-peak than on-peak sales as evidence that their domestic sales strategies were justified , but Schiller later developed estimates which suggested that the true significance of domestic sales were masked by this experience . |
| 27 | This may not appear surprising ; it was certainly a serious drawback for Mary as queen that her upbringing had given her only second-hand knowledge of her country . |
| 28 | Michel Gien , chairman of EurOpen , points to recent examples of the private sector following government procurement policy as evidence that European business is showing interest : decisions such as that by a group of car manufacturers led by Peugeot and Renault to specify certain open systems criteria in contracts should in turn have knock-on effects for open systems take-up . |
| 29 | The gains had been welcomed by the government as confirmation that its economic policies had received a good response from investors . |
| 30 | Retail outlets will view the products that they buy from manufacturers or wholesalers as items that should provide the maximum Contribution per unit of limiting factor , which is floor space . |