Example sentences of "that [pron] [modal v] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was quite a young man , ’ said Lester , ‘ and Melvin Frank was quite experienced and assumed that I would act as a kind of surrogate director . |
| 2 | One day , in the dim and distant future , I expect that I shall want to move into different arenas , but I imagine that I shall continue as an NCT member , not just to receive my favourite journal , New Generation but also to carry on contributing to my favourite charity . |
| 3 | It is not surprising , therefore , that hardly a day goes by without someone asking me to recommend ‘ a single volume with good colour photos of insignia and uniforms , that I can use as a standard reference on Special Forces ’ . |
| 4 | Like the time when we were having a well-established film star on the show , and the researcher suggested that I should say as an opening gambit , ‘ You 're still a very attractive man , are n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 6 | This meant that Mrs. Bernadette McAliskey ( nee Devlin ) could not take part though she had earlier indicated that she would stand as a candidate in Mid-Ulster . |
| 7 | You think that she would manage as the wife of a struggling doctor , be able to cope with the work and the responsibility ? ’ |
| 8 | But if she ca n't stop being Cicciolina , it seems unlikely that she will last as Mrs Koons . |
| 9 | She had quickly joined the emigration society of which her cousins were already members , and it had been agreed that she should count as part of their family . |
| 10 | It makes no sense at all to tell an attractive transsexual employed as a secretary , possessed of all the necessary documentation of her sex change and all the physical attributes of her new sex — breasts , female figure , and vagina ( albeit a constructed one ) — that she can pass as a woman , but can not be raped because she is a man . |
| 11 | There was nothing in his face that she could interpret as affection or even as desire . |
| 12 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 13 | That you might become as 1 . |
| 14 | er Apollo Leisure had decided that they would like to have arts and science under the same roof , er the arts has been something that 's considered an acceptable cultural pastime , and people will go out at weekends , take the family and will do something that , they would look at an exhibition , er or they would go to the theatre , whereas in science , there is n't really anything that you can do as a social or cultural pastime . |
| 15 | If you have difficulty doing this , use your listening to ascertain what emotional response the speaker is feeling ; then ask yourself whether you have a relevant emotional experience that you can offer as encouragement to help them express their response . |
| 16 | One , we 're going to look at why well trained staff are , are so important to the C U , secondly we 're going to look at things responsibility training is and lastly we want to look at a systematic approach that you can take as training . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course , there 's a way you can work around playing a minor blues in a major tuning — in open G , for instance , you just play the top three strings at the third fret and that gives you a B flat major chord that you can use as a G minor — but it still felt pretty limiting . |
| 18 | There is a wealth of beautiful fabrics that you can use as backgrounds to pressed bouquets , ranging from wonderful silks to antique pieces of lace . |
| 19 | You may feel the doorknob more strongly than some big personal event , and the doorknob will open into something that you can use as your own . |
| 20 | To create an electronic newspaper , all you need is a desktop personal computer that you can use as a server . |
| 21 | That 's right , then again , I think that 's one of the biggest plans that you can use as your door-opener . |
| 22 | " Now , we 've arranged that you will travel as a newly-wed couple . |
| 23 | Remember that you will act as host on the day , but you and your guest are welcome to come to tea with the other guests . |
| 24 | Urban life for him demanded a more human scale , a city like Durham or Bristol , a place that one can comprehend as a city . |
| 25 | Overall comprehension of this order requires either a complete assimilation of all relevant information on the lines described by Descartes , or an instant of penetrating insight that we may classify as a Gift from God . |
| 26 | It is where these exist that we may act as ‘ lead adviser ’ . |
| 27 | There is much speculation about the advent of fifth-generation machines which , it is proposed , will be capable of learning , extrapolation , ratiocination and imagination — and hence , possibly , of something that we would recognize as emotion . |
| 28 | It will be a more competitive one but one that we ought to welcome as a company . ’ |
| 29 | In any case it is the strict version of conventionalism that we must test as a general interpretation of our legal practice . |
| 30 | the things that we used to use as verbs , they use as nouns I think I must |