Example sentences of "[vb past] that as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | India in those days ( round about 1963 ) was much in the air and I found that as a background it decidedly fired my imagination . |
| 2 | So all the traffic that used that as a rat run to get on the East Lancs Road |
| 3 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 4 | Greenpeace reported that as a result exports were going to east European countries and Latin America . |
| 5 | Capt. Valentine E. M. Strasser , head of state of Sierra Leone , reported that as a result of the conflict his country had had " no respite for the past 15 months " and had suffered as much devastation as Liberia itself . |
| 6 | Simon Draper , in particular , realised that as the Sex Pistols began to disintegrate it was Lydon who was ‘ the valuable commodity ’ , and that Virgin should be putting some effort into cultivating a relationship with him , with an eye to the future . |
| 7 | On July 10 , 1990 , the government announced that as a result of its decision to withdraw subsidies " for commodities in ever-growing demand that can not be met by home production " it would ( i ) almost double the price of fuel ; ( ii ) increase the price of luxury goods , newspapers and books ; and ( iii ) double the price of mineral water . |
| 8 | On Sept. 27 Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi announced that as a result of the agreement reached between de Klerk and Mandela , his predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party had withdrawn from constitutional talks . |
| 9 | At Christmas her Uncle Bertie assembled the clan at his manor house in Wiltshire and announced that as a start she had better be presented at Court . |
| 10 | The possibility that the MacQuillan empire was facing hard times raised interesting questions about the future of the Post , but Rain 's glass was empty and Shildon read that as a signal that she was impatient to leave . |
| 11 | Roger , Lord North , admitted that as a subsidy commissioner he had let men off lightly in Cambridgeshire : everyone was known to be worth ten times his assessment in goods and six times in land ; some were worth twenty or thirty times their assessments . |
| 12 | Haines himself admitted that as an outsider his preconception had been that the Jockey Club was ‘ An old-fashioned , creaking organisation of part-timers . ’ |
| 13 | Newman argued that as a commitment in the light of evidence that can not be treated as proof , religious belief is like rather than unlike other forms of belief . |
| 14 | Levy and Sarrat argued that as the US market index had a mean return of 12.1 per cent and a standard deviation of 12.1 per cent , international diversification improved portfolio characteristics by reducing risk . |
| 15 | The Government argued that as the Wages Act removes rights to paid holidays , additional rates for weekend and shift work , as well as 550,000 young people losing their rights to minimum wages , these cuts are justified . |
| 16 | Himmelstein added that as a trade association , the AIC can not legally exclude anyone who seeks membership , and must accept all applicants willing to pay the annual dues of $75 . |
| 17 | In 1931 Scrutton LJ said that , ‘ in many commercial matters the English law and the practice of commercial men are getting wider apart ’ , and noted that as a result commercial business was leaving the courts for arbitration . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sitting much later in the genteel coffee shop of a Holiday Inn in Suburban Virginia , Habib Olahi recalled that as the Shah walked to and fro , he said , " This is against the constitution . " |
| 20 | Lamarckism assumed that as an animal developed a longer neck or bigger muscles or something like that , through practice , it could pass these on to its , to its progeny . |
| 21 | The lama noticed that as the ape rushed into the attack , the crane would defend by evading and then retaliate with its wings . |
| 22 | Frank confirmed that as a boy visiting relatives in the region there had been many of the old ships still about , so Brian and I decided we 'd go there , then sail down the US coast to the Caribbean , through the Panama Canal and head west to the Revillagigedo Islands which Brian had decided were his . |
| 23 | On July 30 , ANC secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed that as a result of Vance 's mediatory efforts , the two sides had met to discuss the release of remaining political prisoners , one of the ANC conditions for the resumption of constitutional talks . |
| 24 | Vincent declared that as a man of passion he was prepared to try anything . |
| 25 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 26 | The argument , which was accepted by the Democrats , reasoned that as the territories ' representatives were permitted to vote in legislative committees they should , therefore , be entitled to vote in the committee of the whole . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He discovered that as a girl she had had a passion for Stendhal , so had he , and they talked about Julien Sorel and Tolstoi and Rimbaud . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When he conveyed this message to the Shah 's entourage , the US ambassador , Richard Parker , warned that as the situation in Iran changes so might the attitudes in Washington . |