Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conceivably connected too is the possibility that Æthelred took as a consort the daughter of a Northumbrian earl , Thored , maybe to mollify such of the northerners as had supported him . |
| 2 | In Jacques 's view the indivisibility of town and country in liberal adult education might lead naturally to the formation of a county federation of WEA branches as had occurred elsewhere in the District and which had been entirely beneficial to the growth of adult education . |
| 3 | In late January Mandela revealed that the ANC had demanded the removal and replacement of certain police officers , whose names had been submitted to de Klerk , and who were regarded by township communities as having orchestrated violence . |
| 4 | In his day Hamilton was recognized by discriminating judges as having contributed decisively to the emergence of the new naturalistic style of English landscape , and his guidance was sought by his friends for such outstanding creations as Stourhead , Bowood , Hagley , and Holland Park . |
| 5 | Responding to the charge that the restrictions attached to oil sales violated Iraqi sovereignty , the United States permanent representative at the UN , Thomas Pickering , said that they had been included to " prevent [ food and medicines being diverted ] to the Iraqi privileged classes as has happened in the past " . |
| 6 | Similarly , on June 29th 1970 , the same newspaper reported Portuguese troops as having crossed the border from Angola in order to kidnap the inhabitants of a remote Zambian village . |
| 7 | The Northern Ireland government had had a bad press for years as have had all weak and well-meaning governments in a classical revolutionary situation whether they were Stuart , Bourbon , Romanov or more modern . |
| 8 | An extreme instance is provided by Godden and Baddeley ( 1975 , 1980 ) , who found that the ability of divers to recall a list of words learned either under water or on the beach was much better when the test took place in the same conditions as had prevailed during original learning . |
| 9 | Without going into his work in any detail , Cicourel found that white , middle-class youths are less liable to be identified by police and probation officers as having committed or being likely to commit a crime . |
| 10 | Above all , the new positivists portrayed the existing penal process based on such principles as having failed to provide for the proper defence of society against crime — partly through prescientific wrongheadedness , and partly through a misplaced concern with the rights of offenders ( Ferri , 1967 ) . |
| 11 | EastEnders , regarded by senior BBC managers as having lost its way with sordid story lines , is being given a new producer . |
| 12 | Such trees as have escaped the chainsaw are now in full leaf , the grass is looking crisp and healthy , with the exception of the brutal scars inflicted on the ‘ meadow ’ stretch along the Castletown Road by the lorries of the heavy handed tree fellers . |
| 13 | Sukarno hoped to employ the same techniques as had broken Dutch resistance in New Guinea . |
| 14 | The Shah was reported to the Israelis as having said , " If the prime minister and the foreign minister were in favour of recognizing Israel , I have no objections . |
| 15 | After a four-hour meeting with Gorbachev , in which the main topics of discussion were the Gulf and developments in the republics , Tass described the two leaders as having established a " good personal contact " . |
| 16 | These followed two decades of consolidation of the ‘ stable democracies ’ in the Western capitalist world , and of the presumably ‘ stable autocracies ’ in the socialist world of Eastern Europe , as well as the emergence of a ‘ Third World ’ ( including many newly independent states ) which was conceived by most Western political scientists as having embarked upon a process of gradual ‘ modernization ’ and ‘ industrialization ’ . |
| 17 | The question which teachers rated their pupils as having had most experience with was 112 - : 7 ; 71 per cent of pupils in the sample were said to have had " frequent experience , including this term " of this kind of item . |
| 18 | Er yeah but why , yeah okay I did n't mean that actually was he asking too much , I mean are we interpreting the peasants as having done , are we over interpreting what the peasants have done , basically ? |
| 19 | In a major study of sexual offences conducted by the Cambridge Institute of Criminology between 1950 and 1954 in which 3000 cases involving sexual offences were investigated , it was found that the proportion of offenders recorded by the police as having committed carnal knowledge of girls aged 13 to 16 who were not brought before the courts was much higher ( 46 per cent. ) than for men charged with other heterosexual offences ( 12 per cent . ) . |
| 20 | Such increases as have occurred in on-licence sales have tended to be in products such as lager , cider , wines and spirits , many of which we purchase from outside suppliers in the form of proprietary brands . |
| 21 | Thus , whereas classicism 's image of human nature portrayed all human beings as being fully responsible for their own actions , Bentham saw criminals as having limited rationality and responsibility , but thought that they could be made more rational by the correct application of reformative techniques in his ‘ mill for grinding rogues honest ’ , as he called the Panopticon . |
| 22 | In such cases , we do indeed seem to take decisions and choices as having required conditions . |
| 23 | Of course he had known Rufus had this in mind , was three years through his time at medical school , had already considerable knowledge and nous — who could forget that ? — but somehow he had imagined that the same fate would have overtaken the others as had overtaken him , a deathly stultifying , an inhibition on all that was ambitious and of ascendant character , a remorseful withdrawing into the shade . |
| 24 | Nor had he ever allowed such doctrines as had influenced him to sit too heavily upon his shoulders . |
| 25 | Dr Lawrence , who was confirmed by one of the previous archbishops in Canterbury Cathedral , said that his society would never allow one of their leaders to undermine these essential doctrines as had happened in the Church of England . |
| 26 | Neither was sure if one of us would be going home or if we 'd be split up and put with other hostages as had happened before with the Yanks and the Frenchmen . |
| 27 | And indeed , as Daly sees women as having become ‘ mutants ’ or ‘ fembots ’ , so Millett sees them as not having been allowed to participate in fully ‘ human ’ activities ( which she characterises as those that are most remote from the biological contingencies of life ) , and Frye sees them as simply ‘ broken ’ and then ‘ remade ’ in the way that suits their masters . |
| 28 | On July 3 Brooke refused to describe the talks as having broken down , saying that he hoped they could be revived in the autumn . |
| 29 | Chairman , just before we leave things can I just remind members now that , that , the target set for this Committee was a net increase , and , have that in mind as we go through , and that increase is some six hundred and forty thousand pounds , which we could show within those papers as having arrived at it , in ninety four , five . |
| 30 | The study is based mainly upon the records of the civil courts supplemented by such papers of corporate and administrative institutions as have survived . |