Example sentences of "that as a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But she maintains that as a percentage of all children seen over the five months , the numbers in which they first raised the question of possible abuse were little larger than those found in a recent survey by the NSPCC in a dozen areas of England .
2 The final point which needs to be made about ethnicity is that as a speaker variable it can not usually be isolated from social class .
3 Yes , he was fascinated by Suedehead and its lurid tale of violence against blacks and homosexuals , but do n't forget that as a kid he had a strong affection for gore and horror in general .
4 Bet you could use that as a cooking
5 Erm and I would see that in terms of a service of thanksgiving , some kind of service of thanksgiving where I could pray with them , we could pray for the child in their arms in the face of the congregation and ask God 's blessing on the life of that child and see that as a celebration of thanksgiving and a , a prayer of blessing for , for that child .
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 It had become clear over the ensuing years that the requirements concerning collective worship had increasingly been disregarded by schools , and there were calls for the introduction of a more flexible system as well as suggestions that as a concept collective worship in school was outmoded and out of line with the more secular society in Britain , and should , therefore , be abandoned altogether .
9 Therefore it seemed fitting that as a tribute to him and his comrades I produce a sculpture with this tool .
10 The difficulty is simply that as a co-heir Seia is owner of an undivided share of the whole estate , and the question is on what basis she can recover from her coheir the quarter of the gardens which she does not own qua heir .
11 The judge told Cranog Jones that his plan had been ingenious , but warned him that as a magistrate , he would have a hard time in prison .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 I 'd also like to suggest that as a goodwill gesture and a partial recompense for the inconvenience caused to Scorton residents Ribble should offer the service free for the month of August .
14 This distinction was developed in Rylands v. Fletcher into the rule that as a prerequisite to liability the defendant must have brought onto the land something ‘ which was not naturally there . ’
15 Erm , could I sort of use that as a lever , to remind people on the yellow sheets that we forgot about , and that was the last one , the sixteenth of December , and er , I think that 's , that 's an element of personal er , commitment to the Fire Service which is so divided .
16 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 .
17 I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations .
18 She knew that as a Deacon she was still an uncommon enough phenomenon in the Church to evoke curiosity .
19 We shall not be mistaken in seeing that as a reference to God the Holy Spirit .
20 and use that as a reference so you can work out the others from it instead of trying to remember the lot .
21 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 .
22 In advance of that , however , it can be noted here that as a generalization about the fabliaux , rather than a point to consider in relation to some fabliaux , her claim may go too far .
23 If we accept that as a precondition of change , we have to accept that those changes must come about democratically .
24 His greatest asset , of course , is that as a man he is so well liked .
25 Vincent declared that as a man of passion he was prepared to try anything .
26 Since he was not born in the ordinary way , Adam would not have needed one , but the general assumption was that as a man he had a navel .
27 On Feb. 27 Spegelj reportedly sent a letter reminding the prosecutor that as a government member he enjoyed immunity from prosecution .
28 Decision : the aggravating features of the offence were the age of the victim ( 61 ) , the fact that as a taxi driver he was vulnerable and an easy target ; the isolated location in which the offence was committed ; the degree of violence and the fact that it continued after the theft had been completed ; the fact that the victim had been left , so far as the offenders were aware , unconscious , and the fact that two men were involved , and an implement may have been used .
29 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 .
30 I remember that as a girl
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