Example sentences of "that they [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement . |
| 2 | Everything she hated was white : that slice of custard just now ; these little stones hard as sugared almonds at a christening ; the cones of rice , curly as white hyacinths , floating in a sea of whipped egg white , that they had as a supper treat ; the damask of the tablecloth that her sweaty palms would soil ; the chilly marble of the fireplace in the white salon ; the glistening pearls of tapioca that lurked at the bottom of soup . |
| 3 | Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities . |
| 4 | Some schools in fact survive because parents are operating under the mistaken assumption that the school is run and organised in very much the same way as the one that they attended as a child , even more so when it 's the same school . |
| 5 | Is it not an absolute absurdity that that person should spend an extra week in prison and my elderly pensioner couple should not get compensation for the damage that they suffered as a result of the burglary ? |
| 6 | This group had isolated themselves socially because of the paranoia that they experienced as a side-effect of their drug use . |
| 7 | R.R. Darlington stressed that the ecclesiastical content of several tenth-century law codes suggests that they originated as the canons of synods. Æthelstan 's first code , for example , and his Ordinance on Charities , both say that they were framed on the advice of Archbishop Wulfhelm of Canterbury and other bishops , and the text known as I Edmund appears from its prologue to be a set of decisions taken purely by the ecclesiastical wing of the witan ( royal council ) ; they may eventually have been issued as a royal decree , but that I Edmund in its surviving form is something other than this is implied by the fifth chapter , which exhorts the king to put churches in order . |
| 8 | It is my contention that entrenchment and cynicism both reflect and serve to heighten an atmosphere of demoralization ; that they arise as a result of a semi-conscious decision by teachers about how to cope with doubts and demands ; that while this stance often seems the only possible option it is a mistake to adopt it ; and that through insight into the dynamics of the decision-making process , a better stance can be found , even in very trying circumstances , that offers a greater opportunity for personal satisfaction and institutional success . |
| 9 | Often the set lunches are so cheap , in fact , that they work as a loss leader — a taster to tempt people back in the evening . |
| 10 | One advantage of base-isolated buildings is that they move as a unit . |
| 11 | This might happen for some clumps of primordial germ cells are known to form intercellular bridges so that they exist as a syncytium ( fused cells , sharing several nuclei ) . |
| 12 | Yet , despite this intimacy , the fact that they exist as a couple with a unique value in each other 's eyes ( a point marvellously grasped in Donne 's love-poetry ) , they remain separate , even when man and woman strive to overcome the fundamental dualism of life . |
| 13 | De Vere Green was already up in the seat of the converted Sno-cat that they used as a tractor , its caterpillar track ideal for use in the harsh Dartmoor winters . |
| 14 | When working with couples , the therapist 's role is to help the partners identify the problems that they face as a couple and then to encourage them to tackle those that appear soluble using the approach that has already been described . |
| 15 | This comment in a recent ILO/UNCTC study of EPZs in the Caribbean is very typical : ‘ In spite of the small number of jobs generated so far , the rate at which EPZs create employment is , however , so high that they rank as the most dynamic agents for job creation compared with other sources of national employment ’ ( Long , 1986 , p.60 ) . |
| 16 | Izvestiya of Nov. 17 pointed out that the leaders of local administrations often had " more real power than the heads of Russian Federation constituent republics " and that they acted as a support base for Yeltsin . |
| 17 | Typically there is a pair of ganglia in each segment of the body , but the members of a pair are usually so closely united that they appear as a single ganglion , the commissure being no longer evident externally . |