Example sentences of "[noun] that he [verb] as " in BNC.

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1 Since it would have been unlikely that many property offenders would have been able to pay the fines that he advocated , they would mostly have been subjected to the forced labour that he proposed as the alternative .
2 Eyadema refused to accede to demands that he resign as head of state prior to the conference , but agreed to abide by its decisions .
3 Alright , he invested the money that he received as a gratuity from British Telecom when he was made redundant .
4 He did not need the money that he earned as a doctor .
5 It is a testament to Butler 's skill that he served as Private Secretary to both Edward Heath and Harold Wilson and , even more impressively , stayed the course as Principal Private Secretary under Mrs Thatcher .
6 In 1853 he travelled to Mecca , which was such a dangerous trip for a European that he travelled as a Muslim pilgrim .
7 Syd Robinson , a vice-chairman of the Eastern District , was so incensed by this move that he resigned as one of the District 's three representatives on the Extra-Mural Board forthwith .
8 He became more concerned with specialization within a given environment , a process that he saw as a consequence of the struggle between the different inhabitants of that environment .
9 The election of the Prime Minister has done much to dispel that idea and to show the general public that in my right hon. Friend we have a Prime Minister who is frank about his business background and honest about the employment difficulties that he faced as a young man .
10 This work eventually encountered various great technical difficulties which , it seems , could only be resolved by what most people have regarded as unsatisfactory expedients , and so that the , the system in many ways that he evolved as an answer to this programme has not been commonly held to be entirely satisfactory .
11 From his saddlebag he took a length of rope that he knotted as a leash round Nosey 's neck , then he drew his rifle out of the saddle holster , cocked it , and went silently forward .
12 He dwells on the dilemma that he inherited along with his love for this man that he questions as sympathy .
13 Though many other features certainly were recognised by Banfield as relevant , the characteristic of these societies that he adopted as the key to explanation was the absence of concerted collective action by the peasants for improvement of their own position .
14 Mozart 's music will be played throughout the world in 1991 in many bicentenary celebrations , but where better to listen to his operas , chamber music and piano concertos than in Vienna , a city that he described as ‘ the best place in the world for my metier ’ .
15 And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world .
16 However , he always retained control over the issues that he regarded as most important ( which is not to say that they were necessarily the most important in an objective sense ) .
17 He showed an exceptional and sustaining dedication to his art in the face of personal loneliness and critical indifference ; it was only after his death that he emerged as a vital influence on writers of the generation of Evelyn Waugh , W. H. Auden [ qq.v. ] , and Anthony Powell .
18 The issue will , however , continue to be important for negligence claims where the defendant wishes to seek immunity on the grounds that he acted as an arbitrator , as in Palacath Ltd v Flanagan [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 161 : see 14.5.3 .
19 For instance , at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ the Head of Music expressed the strongly held view that he operates as a practitioner involved in education rather than the transmission of an established body of knowledge .
20 When Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister , in 1937 , he had as the Foreign Secretary , Anthony Eden , a very able minister of considerable repute , which fact probably accounted for the fact that he remained as Foreign Secretary despite the clear differences of opinion that became apparent between them .
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