Example sentences of "as we [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we noted at the beginning of the chapter , white , middle-class churches in Britain have a poor ‘ track record ’ on relating to artisan , West Indian and Asian cultures . |
| 2 | As we noted at the start , the policy concerns of the country in which academics work are an important factor in determining the kind of International Relations that they will study . |
| 3 | As we noted at the beginning of this chapter , because there is no consensus either among or between the different sectors of the village population over the answers to these questions , any overall conclusion about ‘ loss of community ’ is impossible . |
| 4 | As we noted in the previous chapter , the nation of Israel occupied a central place in the realisation of this hope , serving as the gathering-point of the nations ( Isa. 24:23 ; Zech. 14:9 ; Obad. 21 ) . |
| 5 | As we noted in Chapter 2 many unions regarded themselves as being part of a socialist-oriented labour movement directed towards a fundamental reconstruction of society . |
| 6 | As we noted in Chapter 1 , both forms of reward can have a marked effect on behaviour . |
| 7 | As we noted in the last chapter , to say that a decision or action is subject to judicial review is to say that it can be challenged on the basis of the rules and principles of public law which define the grounds of judicial review . |
| 8 | Government expenditure G is determined by political decisions , as we noted in Chapter 6 . |
| 9 | Local government has its origins , as we noted in Chapter 2 , in the growing urbanisation of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | The consequence has been an explosion of FDI flows among the developed countries , as we noted in chapter 1 . |
| 11 | As we noted in the introduction , however , problems arise as soon as one enquires about the relationship between ‘ science ’ and ‘ religion ’ in the past . |
| 12 | Accounts given by individuals are inevitably selective in content and emphasis , and as we noted in Chapter 3 , the attribution of change to particular policies or causal factors is always difficult . |
| 13 | This situation was most characteristic , as we noted in section 2.3 , of the less urbanized regions of the south of the country . |
| 14 | As we noted in Chapter 1 , level is an elusive concept , difficult to objectify without formal procedures of initial admission and final assessment . |
| 15 | ( It is this shift which , as we noted in the Introduction , supplies the chief rationale for this book . ) |
| 16 | As we noted in Chapter 2 , James Caird , writing in 1878 , drew attention to the differences between the agriculture practised in the predominantly pastoral North and West of England and that in the mainly arable South and East , a division which affected the organization and conditions of village life in the two regions . |
| 17 | Yet as we noted in our tenth report : ‘ The price that some children may pay for demanding little of the teacher may be that they are given work which demands little of them ’ ( Alexander et al . |
| 18 | As we noted in our fifth report : |
| 19 | As we noted in Fig. 15.2 and Table 15.2 , the ratio has risen since then under the influence of recessionary conditions . |
| 20 | As we noted in Chapter 10 , oligopolists have an incentive to carry out socially unproductive advertising in order to make it harder for new entrants to meet the fixed costs of breaking into the industry , thereby leaving more of the market and the profit for existing firms . |
| 21 | As we argued in the previous chapter , this profits squeeze fundamentally reflected overaccumulation . |
| 22 | As we argued throughout the proceedings of the European parliamentary elections bill , the Conservatives are entirely responsible for the fact that this process of drawing up the new European boundaries had to be compressed into such a short time . |
| 23 | As we landed at Cardiff , those in the seats closest to his party heard the Labour leader holding himself in check : ‘ Prime Ministerial . |
| 24 | As we parked outside the station Irena reversed into a 1964 Mark One Cortina , crushing a wing . |
| 25 | The scope or character of a piece of criticism is naturally related to the magazine or newspaper in which it appears , as we noticed in the case of Dore Ashton 's dismissal from the New York Times because it was asserted that her work could not be understood by the paper 's readers . |
| 26 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 27 | But , as we noticed in chapter 1 , it is a social fact in a much more deep-lying sense , because these dialects are the possessions of their speakers . |
| 28 | As we noticed in chapter 3 , the full membership of this limited set is not predictable by environmental phonological rules : for example , whereas shook , look belong to it , cook , book do not . |
| 29 | As we noticed in chapter 3 , vernacular vowel systems such as the Belfast one may display patterns that are not comfortably accounted for by standard or traditional methods . |
| 30 | As we noticed in chapter 4.2 , this is quite well preserved in BV as a stable marker of membership of inner-city communities . |