Example sentences of "[that] [noun] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argue that support acted as an antecedent protective factor , but as their data was not longitudinal , the relationships they found are open to alternative explanations . |
| 2 | It holds that groups defined as ‘ nations ’ have the right to , and therefore ought to , form territorial states of the kind that have become standard since the French Revolution . |
| 3 | The trouble is that phosphates act as nutrients for green plants and the minute algae that grow on the surface of slow-moving water . |
| 4 | ‘ And we 're doing it again next year for GCE , ’ drawled a voice that Toby recognized as Hilary Frome 's . |
| 5 | She knew that Sue worked as a nurse four nights a week , going on duty some time after the children had gone to bed in the evening , and returning at seven in the morning . |
| 6 | The point will be made to the world that Mexico stands as a nation for the principle that a healthy environment is essential for the common future of humanity , with particular stress on the quality of life our children will inherit . |
| 7 | Not only is this desirable as a means of restricting monetary growth , but , if it involves cutting government expenditure ( as opposed to increasing taxes ) , it will also increase the size of the private sector relative to the public sector and it is the private sector that monetarists see as the main source of long-term growth in output and employment . |
| 8 | The association between the daughter 's rejection and the mother 's disability appears to afford at least circumstantial evidence that relationships deteriorate as a consequence of the burdens of tending . |
| 9 | Mr Brendan Finucane , who prosecuted in the Aberdour trial , told the hearing that Gray posed as a Mr Edouards and contacted the foundation , based at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Bloomsbury , London , where Aberdour was deputy director . |
| 10 | The reason that some have thought that psychoanalysis operates as a closed belief system is , no doubt , a result of the fact that Freud made the point that people usually reject psychoanalytic ideas at first , and the vehemence of their rejection may mask deep repression of material . |
| 11 | ‘ Is it ? ’ said Fael-Inis , the golden eyes glowing and piercing , so that Fergus felt as if Fael-Inis was seeing into his mind . |
| 12 | Lastly it is probable that Rochester acted as a service centre for the comparatively large number of villas situated in the surrounding countryside . |
| 13 | In support of a view that hearers behave as if speakers ' presuppositions are to be accepted , there is the rather disturbing evidence from Loftus ' study ( 1975 ) of answers to leading questions . |
| 14 | The fact that Mannheim considered as ‘ knowledge ’ the presuppositions which constitute the world-view of a social group and consequently affect all knowledge seemed to escape Merton who categorized knowledge as ideas that ‘ perform different functions ’ ( Merton 1957 : 497 ) . |
| 15 | Her eyes were on Theda 's in a look so compelling that Theda felt as if her mind were being dragged out to be read . |
| 16 | It is the antithesis between these that Schleiermacher takes as the introduction to the doctrine of redemption , which occupies the second ( and larger ) of the two main divisions of The Christian Faith . |
| 17 | The flowering of the very Greek culture that Goody takes as the example par excellence of rationality , philosophy and science is inextricably linked with mysticism , secrecy and ambiguity . |
| 18 | He padded through to the room that Elinor described as his ‘ study ’ . |
| 19 | Remember that textbooks serve as reference books for many years after you have " mastered " the subject . |
| 20 | One man was lying on his back and cycling with his legs , rather like Badger , while a figure that Robert recognized as Aziz 's friend from the Frog and Ferret was doing a lot of semaphore work with both arms . |
| 21 | The third aim of the project was to consider needs that are being , or could be , met from external/co-operative sources , and Chapter 5 examines the topics that libraries indicated as those for which there was most need for external training provision . |
| 22 | We need an idea that can not be found there : that the community as a whole has obligations of impartiality toward its members , and that officials act as agents for the community in acquitting that responsibility . |
| 23 | The main argument put forward by er , er , was that er was that Wilson suffered as an adult , because of the over oppressed rage he , oppressed rage he possessed , which was directed towards his father . |
| 24 | Skinner argued that behaviour occurs as a function of previous experiences and that , given a clear understanding of the contingent relations between the environment and a specific behaviour in the past , it is possible to predict , with a very high degree of accuracy , the conditions under which that behaviour will occur in the future . |
| 25 | Researchers in the United States and Israel have found that substances known as phenolic flavonoids , extracted from a Californian red , may prevent the build-up of fat in the artery walls . |
| 26 | Runic inscriptions suggest that bracteates served as amulets . |
| 27 | It is also this sudden change in the quality , not just the quantity , of managerial work that subordinates accept as a natural and appropriate break in the continuum of hierarchy . |
| 28 | The combination of his alternately taut and flexible maintenance of phrase and line with his tireless illumination of detail ( of above all , passing rhythmic and harmonic piquancy ) was one of Cortot 's most priceless gifts and in No. 14 — to name but one instance — he provides a polyphonic magic , a subtle differentiation and entwining of voices that Brendel sees as a virtually sees as a virtually lost art . |
| 29 | The story we heard a few moments ago concerns one of the miracles that God performed as a part of Elisha 's ministry in Israel . |
| 30 | John Chadwick ( 1976 , p. 87 ) comments that the word ‘ Athena ’ has a form suggesting a pre-Greek place-name , so it may be that Athena originated as the Potnia worshipped at a place called Athens or something similar . |