Example sentences of "as [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is our political culture more attractive if seen as accepting that virtue ? |
| 2 | The study of equilibrium growth paths , on the other hand , takes as given that investment and full employment savings are equal , and proceeds typically by analysing development over time in terms of the behaviour of savings . |
| 3 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 4 | If we approach these tensions from the perspective of assuming that these represent the dialectical poles , or at least some of them ( for of course others could be discussed here had we the space : for example the tension between " knowing how " and " knowing that " in design activity ) of a design activity which encompasses all of these in a vertical moment of synthesis , a synthesis that is counterposed horizontally ( ie over time ) by the changing movements of the activity itself ( from product critique through to problem definition to cognitive modeling of potential solutions etc ) , a movement of understanding and practice which parallels in its sphere the circle of historical understanding and historical praxis ( and just as the latter is the " way in which history itself moves " so the former is the " way praxis itself moves " ) so design can be seen as embodying that movement in its movement from or across actuality ie in its activity of transformation from one set of " givens " to another ; in its movement from problem to product . |
| 5 | None of this , however , should be interpreted as implying that Semai are callous or indifferent to the welfare of their neighbours and kin , which is certainly not the case ; it merely demonstrates that another person 's problems and affairs are pre-eminently his own ; ‘ hal mai , hal mai ; hal hii ’ , hal hii' ’ is the apposite aphorism : ‘ their affairs are theirs ; our affairs are ours . ’ |
| 6 | In the evening there was an example of a shift in emphasis that was so pronounced as to cause that part of the day to become an event in its own right . |
| 7 | But one can see immediately that that is not so : the task of the modules is translation , and so the task of each translation module is therefore different ( translating a poem from English to Chinese is not the same task as translating that poem from Chinese to French ) . |
| 8 | They indicate that their holders identify with their society and hold themselves to be under an obligation to obey the law which they regard as expressing that attitude . |
| 9 | The old bleed — overseer called me Jess after his dog as died that day . |
| 10 | The words used will be interpreted according to the so-called " golden rule " : they will be given their ordinary grammatical and literal meaning unless that produces absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy , when the literal meaning can be modified so as to avoid that absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy . |
| 11 | Having obtained the poles of , the relevant physical transfer function is deduced by rejecting poles in the positive half of the s-plane and a network is synthesised so as to generate that transfer function . |
| 12 | The appointment of Sapin , 39 , was seen as indicating that Bérégovoy would continue to control economic policy . |
| 13 | This is more or less the same as saying that theme normally precedes rheme . |
| 14 | In Richmal Crompton 's School Is a Waste of Time ! , which we have recently published , he is recorded as saying that MP 's ‘ have n't anything to do but make speeches and they need n't even make speeches if they do n't feel like it and they 're paid money whether they make speeches or not , which seems very nice for the MPs … |
| 15 | Faced with a given set of words which are capable of conveying that meaning it is not surprising if the words are accepted as having that meaning . |
| 16 | I do not read the decision in Effer v. Kantner as having that effect which would be contrary to the form in which the question posed was answered in that decision . |
| 17 | The Londoners have won twice and drawn twice on their six League visits to Anfield , as well as having that Cup final to savour . |
| 18 | They interpreted this finding as showing that associability lost by the stimulus during the first stage of training could outweigh the transfer deriving from the fact that both stage of the study involved inhibitory learning . |
| 19 | The following passage from the judgment of Atkin L.J. , at p. 887 , was relied upon by Mr. Gardiner as showing that recoverability was not dependent upon any measure of compulsion : |
| 20 | In the circumstances factory gate prices , which could be interpreted as showing that demand had hardly relaxed , and input prices which underlined the inflationary danger posed by a weaker pound deepened the gloom Yet it was mainly the timing , not the policy , which was to blame . |
| 21 | Bouton and King ( 1983 ) interpret their results as showing that context-specificity will be evident only when there is some ambiguity about the CS that the contextual cues help to resolve . |
| 22 | Gerald Vaughan , the health minister , simply reiterated in October 1981 that there is no clear evidence to link unemployment and ill health , and summarised the results of a DHSS study as showing that unemployment has different effects on different families ( to the chagrin of the researcher involved , who argued that his findings showed that the unemployed were more likely to suffer from physical , and psychological , ill health , unless they worked in hazardous occupations . |
| 23 | If he had won , he would certainly not have snubbed the Oscar-night celebrations as did that year 's recipient of the Best Actor Award , George C. Scott , for Patton . |
| 24 | In the same breath as admitting that Lightning , the high-end , super-pipelined Sparc chip that it was developing in conjunction with LSI Logic Corp and Hyundai Electronics , was n't going to strike after all , Metaflow Technology also began to talk about a next-generation effort in design that would follow ( UX No 273 ) . |
| 25 | We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance . |
| 26 | Sensing the dangers of such rivalry , the Communists intensified their attack on the ILP , going so far as to declare that disaffiliation was but a temporary manoeuvre . |
| 27 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
| 28 | On this theory , then , when I use the word ‘ I ‘ , I know what ‘ I ’ means by description , and it is described as meaning that bundle of mental states of which my use of the word is one member . |
| 29 | It may see this as meaning that reason has less hope of producing convergence in ethics than on factual matters . |
| 30 | But Gentlemen for your deliberations to be useful they must be free — your opinions must not be shackled by authorities ; & I know that were I present your candor and delicacy towards me would be such , as to prevent that freedom of discussion and investigation , which is absolutely necessary to obtain a knowledge of facts . |