Example sentences of "by [noun pl] as [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students ( particularly advanced students ) are frequently vexed by doubts as to the amount of detail that they should put into their answer . |
| 2 | There had not been such severe storms in southern England for hundreds of years , and the structure of woodlands had not been so regularly modified by gales as in the more stormy north of Britain . |
| 3 | This scarcely perceptible but ubiquitous twitching , described by Ludens as like the slight tremulous movement of leaves on a tree or ripples on a pool , was one of the strangest , and in an odd way most convincing manifestations of the raising of Patrick . |
| 4 | But it would be necessary to ensure that the learning which resulted in respect of such content was accepted by students as worth the processing effort . |
| 5 | If statements by Ministers as to the intent or effect of an Act were allowed to prevail , this would contravene the constitutional rule that Parliament is ‘ sovereign only in respect of what it expresses by the words used in the legislation it has passed : ’ per Lord Diplock in Black-Clawson [ 1975 ] A.C. 591 , 638e . |
| 6 | The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ . |
| 7 | In them , the police were not shot at by gunmen as in the home districts of the Provisional IRA , On the contrary , they were not only welcome , but received deputations from residents from time to time imploring them ‘ to take the gangsters off our backs ’ . |