Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1991 it was disclosed that as a result of the Ministry of Defence ( MoD ) Options for Change report , Kemble and Hullavington would close . |
| 2 | Investors are reminded that as a consequence of the general nature of the investments held and of possible exchange and interest rate fluctuations , the value of their shares and the yield from them may go down as well as up and that past performance is no guide to the future . |
| 3 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Aug. 31 also reported that as a gesture of goodwill Iraq had allowed thousands of Iranians to leave Kuwait for Iran by crossing Iraqi territory at the border between Khorramshahr and Basra . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 've always regarded that as a compliment , at least he was listening . ’ |
| 6 | The justices , however , treated that as a finding that supported the making of a secure accommodation order . |
| 7 | The justices , however , treated that as a finding that supported the making of a secure accommodation order . |
| 8 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |
| 9 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 10 | It must be said that as a matter of civil law the existence of an equitable proprietary interest is doubtful . |
| 11 | Though I 'll say as I said earlier in the half there 's some play some referees might have seen that as a sending off offence . |
| 12 | I should have thought that as a matter of course , when it sent out its communications to the applicant , it would include the list . |
| 13 | And I have been told that as a baby I conformed to this pattern , in contrast to my first sister who was ‘ delicate ’ and my second sister who was ‘ placid ’ . |
| 14 | Going , I 'm cha erm , cancelled yesterday cos I was n't off anyway erm but I 've managed , I 've used that as a opportunity to go onto the other doctor the other dentist . |
| 15 | I had the arm of Aaron and , when someone burnt that as a joke , changed my tale and said the ashes were from a fire over which the martyr of St Lawrence died . |
| 16 | It is to be hoped that as a result of the guidance in the subsequent paragraphs most will be confined to the first two categories . |
| 17 | Well you would n't have fancied that as a goalkeeper would you Pearce suddenly came flying in on Ward . |
| 18 | ‘ We have identified that as a link from Stockton station into the new Teesdale site , linking up with the new university , alongside the Teesside Park development into the centre of Middlesbrough and then towards the east , turning down Cargo Fleet Lane , terminating at Ormesby . |
| 19 | The leapfrogging process which resulted meant that as a wage round progressed , later settlements tended to be more favourable to the unions and also more costly to the employers . |
| 20 | Certainly , it may be admitted that as a consequence of challenges to humanism , the overt force of the national concept within English studies has been diminished ( but far from extinguished ) , and the space for a new and valuable concern with methodology has been opened up . |
| 21 | It is suggested that as a result of CA 1985 , s35 the main difficulties will only arise where the purchaser knows or should have known that the directors of the vendor were abusing their powers , for example , by committing a fraud on the vendor 's creditors . |
| 22 | ‘ I had learnt that as a woman , if you feel unhappy , you must be assertive . |