Example sentences of "as a [noun] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story is told of Guru Nanak that even as a boy he argued that the ancient Hindu ceremony of tying on the sacred thread did not prevent men from acting wrongly . |
| 2 | Love has already come out firmly as a feminist who believes that a certain female viewpoint needs to be given space , but even she sees the dichotomy between feminism and her ‘ battered slut in baby dolls ’ image . |
| 3 | As a result we argued that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , which are alien to those required if the market economy is to survive , typified by a counter-culture which eschews the traditional distinction between good and evil and right and wrong , and which is committed to establishing an egalitarian economic system . |
| 4 | As a result he held that ‘ the abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness ’ . |
| 5 | And I always spend the greater part of the first session explaining just what is going to happen and how he is going to feel ; as a result I hope that , by the time we begin the hypnosis itself , the patient will have had all his questions answered and his fears allayed , and will have begun to feel confidence in me and what I am about to do . |
| 6 | As a result I knew that I had recovered everything within the detecting capabilities of my old machine and did not expect that there would be anything left to be found . |
| 7 | Many coaches encourage this , most people here are aware of it , and as a doctor I know that many of my orthopaedic colleagues owe a good proportion of their incomes to repairing football-related catastrophic knee injuries . |
| 8 | In his ‘ Closing statement ’ Jakobson does not explicitly reject this view , which after all he played an important part in developing ; but speaking as a linguist he insists that the difference between poetic and non-poetic texts can be explained in purely linguistic terms . |
| 9 | But no doubt I am watching them too , he decided , for as an anthropologist he knew that men and women may observe each other as warily as wild animals hidden in long grass . |
| 10 | As an artist she maintains that her canvas is her own body , her studio is an operating theatre and her brush a scalpel . |
| 11 | He was always a showman but one whose genius allowed him to become an artist and as an artist he knew that the human spirit was best defended and expressed on the mythic plane . |
| 12 | As an organisation we believe that children in these circumstances may well need support but they 're also a real resource to our society , an investment in children 's welfare and children 's education is a sound investment in the country 's future . |
| 13 | Interpretation is allowed to copy what it finds , and to distort it , and it may be that the novel can be interpreted as an entertainment which conveys that doctrines of science and improvement ca n't encompass what happens in a frightening world , where motive is dark and ill-will ubiquitous . |
| 14 | Using Circle K as an example he complained that since the lighting had been removed the corner was dull , dark and dangerous and not a place to walk late at night . |