Example sentences of "[that] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference was also told that as an alternative to the expense of sending officers to university , it was proposed to ‘ direct officers to research a particular problem … and give them a short period to carry out intensive research ’ . |
| 2 | Haines himself admitted that as an outsider his preconception had been that the Jockey Club was ‘ An old-fashioned , creaking organisation of part-timers . ’ |
| 3 | A poll showed that Mr Da Silva won it , burying the myth that as an ex-factory worker with only a few years schooling he is unqualified for the presidency . |
| 4 | Mr James Tien , a member of the legislative council and a textile manufacturer , said that as an employer he was already experiencing acute shortages of skilled staff . |
| 5 | Likewise , Kingsley Martin recalled in his autobiography how one coal-merchant ‘ noisily walked out of the church and slammed the door ’ in the middle of a sermon by his father , a Congregational minister , because the merchant felt that as an employer he had been attacked . |
| 6 | When he got out , he had the feeling he was n't wanted and that as an infant he was a problem to his family — a feeling which he expressed publicly long before he became aware that his sister was really his mother . |
| 7 | So it was naturally with great affection and nostalgia that as an adult I laced up my boots on a damp October morning at the starting point in the station car park at Bridge of Orchy , in preparation to find out what really lurked at the top of Beinn Dorain . |
| 8 | What it means in practice , at least in the simplest cases , is that as an animal increases in overall size , various of its organs may not keep pace . |
| 9 | McElroy argues that as an ice sheet advance begins ( for reasons unconnected with the carbon dioxide ‘ budget ’ ) there is increased erosion both by the glaciers and by water running on the continents into the falling seas . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought it was nice , the way she missed out this syllable in the middle , and that as an English student I was going to notice things like this . ’ |
| 11 | If untouchability were to be regarded as an integral part of the Hindu way of life , Gandhi feels that he would have to cease calling himself a Hindu , but he firmly believes that as an institution it has no sanction within Hinduism . |
| 12 | We forgot to mention that as an added bonus the winner will be presented with the 555 by Paul Chandler himself at the London Music Show ‘ 92 , so get dialling and it could be you . |
| 13 | May I suggest that as an organisation creating and distributing warehousefuls of what turns into waste paper on a weekly basis you should keep your mouths shut . |
| 14 | This was taken up by local historians as an opportunity to highlight the indignity committed against the town and to use that as an excuse for Stamford 's embarrassing decline into a small provincial town the ‘ sleepy hollow ’ backwater of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | The South West had 10 players from champions Bath and Barnes added : ‘ When we were 14 points adrift I regarded that as an Alpine peak to climb — not a Himalayan . |
| 16 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 17 | Another surprising feature is that as an EC requirement the intrastat carries a criminal as opposed to a civil penalty for non-compliance . |
| 18 | The result was that as an adult I was still reacting as a four-year-old child . |
| 19 | Do they say that as an exclamation of surprise or invitation ? |
| 20 | If this should prove correct , do n't use that as an excuse to find out who Santana were , as they were , and probably still are , unmitigated crap . |
| 21 | His friends will hope that as an Honorary Fellow he may long maintain his close association with that great foundation ; that with greater leisure he will increase his production and that his visits to Colnaghi 's will not be rare . |
| 22 | What is indisputable is that as an undergraduate and then as a research worker for Child Poverty Action Group , far from regarding such evidence as ‘ defeatist talk ’ you not only accepted it but added to it . |
| 23 | And using that as an exit line she stalked out . |
| 24 | It is not easy to see the future for the art of jewellery ; it may even be considered that as an art it has not a future . |
| 25 | I do n't see that as an |
| 26 | There are always gon na be a a set of of people in any area who erm who will latch on to racist attitudes and racist acts if if someone comes in waving that as an you know , as an organized activity . |
| 27 | His obituary in the Gentleman 's Magazine ( vol. lxxxii , part 2 , 1812 , p.187 ) , however , states that as an advocate he possessed ‘ a persuasive oratory , infinite wit , and most excellent fancy ’ and that he was ‘ distinguished as the powerful rival of his friend , Lord Erskine ’ ( Thomas , later first Baron , Erskine , q.v. , lord chancellor 1802 ) . |
| 28 | The second assumption inherent in climatic geomorphology is that as an attitude it is actualist , i.e. it attributes the landscape to present processes . |
| 29 | And the main thrust of our campaign was to try and get the D , to get the D H S S to accept that as an entity , as a tower block , was hard to heat , so that the tenants would automatically get it . |
| 30 | The management er clearly desired to implement the scheme er with the minimum amount of frustration er to anyone , although you 've got to understand that as an engineer working a , a big milling machine for example , if someone comes along and said er , you know you could stand that job on its side different to what you 've got it at the moment , and you could do two faces instead of one you know , by turning the table and you know , by use of various tools er decrease the time factor , there was the , it was a fear that our members may work themselves out of a job . |