Example sentences of "as [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that is so , the end would be the same as I have reached by a more laborious , and perhaps more questionable route . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It has been lowered over my head many times , and then , as I have reached up to smite it , it has passed before me and consumed many people . |
| 3 | As I have altered the way I teach mathematics , I have found pupils have been more highly motivated and have demonstrated skills I had not suspected they possessed . |
| 4 | ‘ I am he that was Norman Britton when on the earth , now returned to haunt you , Albert Roger Quigley , and to tell you that you are an evil man and that you will fall as I have fallen ! |
| 5 | If , as I have argued , thought and consciousness irreducibly escape the net of physicalist interpretation , and if , as I have suggested , the external world must possess the mind-like property of generality if it is to be conceivable , then we can see that Socrates ' assertion in the Phaedo , that the world must be explained by reference to mind , was essentially correct . |
| 6 | If , as I have argued , neurophysiological explanations of mind explain nothing and if physiological observations give us no purchase on the essentially metaphysical question of the nature of mind , how has the myth become so powerful that many people within and outside the scientific community do believe that neurophysiology has advanced ( or will advance ) our understanding of mind and the mind-body relationship ? |
| 7 | The unitary monarchy , though itself ( as I have argued ) fictitious , on which the Statute of Westminster had insisted in 1931 , had now vanished . |
| 8 | As I have argued in previous chapters , reconsidering that history helps us to reconsider psychoanalysis , especially the way it incorporates yet obscures the perverse dynamic . |
| 9 | Similarly , as I have argued elsewhere , this play collapses God into his antithesis , those contemporary secular tyrants who were legitimating their injustice in the name and image of God . |
| 10 | This is even more so when , as I have argued with homosexuality , so many dimensions of a culture have been displaced and/or condensed into the identity of the transgressor . |
| 11 | The crucial distinction to be drawn within the curriculum is , as I have argued , not between arts and sciences but between the practical and the theoretical . |
| 12 | As I have argued at length elsewhere , retirement is both the leading form of age discrimination and the driving force behind the wider development of ageism in modern societies . |
| 13 | As I have argued above , the doctrine of deterrence and the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons can only be justified by the acceptance that the superpowers are genuine in their protestations that they do not intend ever to use nuclear weapons , and that they seek disarmament . |
| 14 | If we are to move towards transforming schools so that they deliver to young people a more appropriate and empowering kind of education than many of them currently receive , and if , as I have argued , this must happen with the committed participation of substantial numbers of teachers , then it follows that the promotion of integrity and self-respect amongst teachers is the most urgent challenge that education currently faces . |
| 15 | But this would be to simplify things for , as I have argued , black kids generally come from the kind of family backgrounds which are not suited for their own educational needs — for reasons which I spelled out in the last chapter , but will summarize as ‘ neglect ’ or ‘ unattainable goals ’ . |
| 16 | If however , as I have argued , the recognitional capacities of dumb creatures are parasitic upon the human paradigm , and to that extent attenuated , then to talk of concepts is to over-emphasise the similarities to human beings at the expense of the differences . |
| 17 | If , as I have argued in the previous section , moral or ethical theories do not provide formulae that replace the need for intuitions , but , on the contrary , are used in the service of new ones , it is these intuitions that we must focus on . |
| 18 | They are , as I have argued earlier in this chapter , instinctive responses to the pre-linguistic prototypical behaviour of animals . |
| 19 | If , as I have argued , it is normal and typical of human beings to have basic impulses to assist other creatures in distress , to find them appealing to view , and in some cases to enjoy their close proximity ( infants reach out naturally towards a puppy but get agitated by wasps or beetles ) , it does not follow that we know how to treat them . |
| 20 | Now if we can give a sense to a residue of basic rules which qualify as human rights , as I have argued , then a respect for life would certainly be one of them . |
| 21 | If , furthermore , animals lack self-consciousness , as I have argued in Chapter 6 , then no sense can be given ( a far stronger claim than that we do not know ) to the contention that they are aware of the prospect of death and terrified at its implications . |
| 22 | If the direct comparison with human beings , defective or otherwise , is not to be the touchstone of our treatment of animals ; if they are , as I have argued , sui generis primitive beings , then what may we do with them ? |
| 23 | As I have argued elsewhere ( 1989 , pp. 169–71 ) , the temple functioned rather like a great medieval abbey , drawing and re-allocating large revenues from the surrounding area and thereby developing into a major centre of wealth and power . |
| 24 | The resulting emphasis on their purposive properties — on their choices , decisions , intentions , actions and beliefs — is , as I have argued , what divides individualists from holists . |
| 25 | This insensitivity on the part of individualists is due , as I have argued , both to a failure of imagination and to moral nervousness ; they are alarmed by an approach which , as one commentator puts it , sees ‘ human individuality as the fantasy of a creature constitutionally unable to apprehend its rigidly social location ’ . |
| 26 | This perspective gives us important analytical tools for understanding the nature of contemporary obligations to kin , as I have argued elsewhere ( Finch , 1987c ) . |
| 27 | Oreopithecus is clearly not a dryopithecin , which indicates these postcranial characters may be primitive for the great ape and human clade , but if Sivapithecus belongs in the orang-utan clade , as I have argued , the shared morphology of the orang-utan and the African apes must have arisen independently . |
| 28 | But then , as I have argued earlier , there was nothing in the basic assumptions of classicism that necessarily prevented it from being equally critical . |
| 29 | Of course if determination is as open-ended as I have argued it is , absent any criterion to distinguish the genuine from the false determination , then no positive law could be unjust because every positive law , whatever its content , being a determination of the natural law , will necessarily be consistent with the natural law and therefore valid . |
| 30 | As I have argued previously , this should be through a national market for research , which would be open to research hospitals all over Britain . |