Example sentences of "[noun pl] that as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had small shrewd hazel eyes that as a rule missed nothing . |
| 2 | It was one of her many advantages that as a professional civil servant herself she understood the constraints of his career . |
| 3 | Reviewing the Salon d'Automne , Allard grouped together the work of Metzinger , Le Fauconnier and Gleizes , and , using one of the paintings shown by Metzinger an example , stated : ‘ there is thus being born in opposition to Impressionism an art which instead of copying natural phenomena , offers to the mind of the spectator , in their pictorial entirety , elements that as a result of synthesis are fundamental and timeless ’ . |
| 4 | Thus when in 1304 Archbishop Corbridge of York admitted to a canonry a papal providee instead of a royal presentee , he was summoned for contempt and was told by the king 's judges that as the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere to the detriment of crown rights and royal dignity . |
| 5 | There are fears that as President he would sting them with stiffer tax bills . |
| 6 | It had become clear over the ensuing years that the requirements concerning collective worship had increasingly been disregarded by schools , and there were calls for the introduction of a more flexible system as well as suggestions that as a concept collective worship in school was outmoded and out of line with the more secular society in Britain , and should , therefore , be abandoned altogether . |
| 7 | On May 15 the Greek parliament voted by 117 to 24 that the criminal charges against the former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou , the latest of which had concerned allegations that as Prime Minister Papandreou had illegally ordered the phones of political enemies to be bugged , should be dropped . |
| 8 | President Wojciech Jaruzelski on Sept. 19 yielded to the demand from the vast majority of Poland 's political forces that as an anachronism from the former communist regime he should resign . |
| 9 | It can also be seen from the results that as the level of processing increases , the ability to recognise a word correctly increasingly exceeds the ability to recognise words that do not fulfill the task . |
| 10 | He boasts of his restaurant in Barnes , assures the actors that as a restaurateur he , too , is something of a performer ( ’ flambe is not flambe without flair ’ ) , and laughs delightedly at his own jokes . |
| 11 | It is because trust has been eroded by the long running conflict between central Government and the teaching unions that as a nation we are far from realising the ideal of having our schools staffed by the true professionals that children deserve . |
| 12 | He justifies his action on the grounds that as a surgeon severs limbs to save life , so he , Gandhi , severs the body from the soul in order to save the soul . |
| 13 | Concern was also expressed in some quarters when it became known that Christopher Ball was to be appointed Chairman of the Board , on the grounds that as head of an Oxford College he would not appear to have the intimate knowledge of the further education system that such a post requires . |