Example sentences of "as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q : We should like to spend a holiday touring Scotland but , as neither of us drives , we are thinking of joining a coach tour . |
| 2 | Romantic poets were keen to vindicate Chatterton , and to cherish his untimely death as that of a sacrificial victim : here was a spilling of young blood that might have watered the purlieus of a church . |
| 3 | How many banal and clumsy , weak and foolish artists have justified their work as that which saved them from despair . |
| 4 | Did Lucy think of herself as that heterosexually convenient phenomenon , the ‘ non-orgasmic woman ’ ; had sex been awful for her ? |
| 5 | The face is defined as that area below the eyebrows and extending down to the chin . |
| 6 | Was he himself as calculating and vain as that ? |
| 7 | The problems which these and other patients suffer can mostly be explained in terms of detailed functional models of face processing such as that proposed by Bruce and Young ( 1986 ) , in the same way that patients ' different reading problems could be explained by Coltheart ( 1985 ) . |
| 8 | Work such as that of Young et al ( 1988 ) has even shown us how something that was traditionally assumed to be as intangible and subjective as the nature of conscious awareness itself can be disrupted by physical damage to the brain and can be successfully studied by the observational techniques of cognitive psychology . |
| 9 | The ubiquitous shellsuit will , however , retain its popularity as a leisure garment , although buyers will be opting for designs in fabrics with a softer handle , such as that achieved by special finishes such as acid , stone or garment washing , which can be applied to both woven and knitted cloths . |
| 10 | The report assesses the current role of FHSAs , Regional Health Authorities ( RHAs ) and District Health Authorities ( DHAs ) in the management of primary dental services , and makes various recommendations , such as that FHSAs should become the focus of responsibility for co-ordinating primary dental care , including in the long term the treatment role of the Community Dental Service . |
| 11 | Her role has the same sobering effect on the atmosphere of the ballet as that of Bratfisch , the Count 's valet , in Mayerling . |
| 12 | But his choreography is no longer like that of earlier demi-caractère styles such as that of the Chinese dance in The Nutcracker . |
| 13 | After painting glazing bars , cover them with a self-adhesive weatherproofing tape such as that produced by Aquaseal . |
| 14 | In the late 1970s he clashed with Derrida in the pages of the poststructuralist yearbook , glyph , where Searle made some sharp remarks , such as that Derrida ‘ has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false . ’ |
| 15 | The most startling yarn was that of Zhang Quo Zhi , who enjoyed a lifestyle which , if you did know better , you would describe as that of a successful capitalist . |
| 16 | Government research says that the presence of dioxins in flue gases from plants such as that at Pontypool ‘ are in the low range of parts per trillion ’ ( one part per trillion is of the order of 30 seconds in a million years , or one ounce in 28 million tons ) , and that all the UK PCB-destroying plants together emit only a ‘ few grammes per year ’ . |
| 17 | The potential for an advertising bonanza has come under the spotlight with the advent of ‘ splitting frequencies ’ such as that undertaken by London 's LBC last week . |
| 18 | Statistical studies , such as that published recently in the British Medical Journal , show that there is no association between the consumption of lightly boiled eggs and illness . |
| 19 | ‘ Simple as that , ’ he says . |
| 20 | The continental commentators on Amsterdam were in the habit of minuting Ramsey 's name as that of the chief opponent of Barth . |
| 21 | He was clearly attracted to rural religious communities , such as that at Kelham where he himself participated or that seventeenth-century community of Little Gidding which he was later to celebrate . |
| 22 | Revising the original articles for Notes towards the Definition of Culture , he complicated his argument 's texture by involving more material relevant to his personal history and to the history of his work , such as that mention of Heart of Darkness which looks back to The Waste Land . |
| 23 | Rather than seeing containment as that which pre-empts and defeats transgression we need to see both containment and transgression as potentially productive processes . |
| 24 | It is not clear which , the anger or the boredom , was thought to be the more insulting , but both were expressed as that arrogance for which he was often hated . |
| 25 | It will bear the history of that oppression , not necessarily as that which disables desire ( though it may ) , but as desire itself . |
| 26 | In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the role of the Sovereign in the eventuality of a hung Parliament , such as that of 1929–31 , and the general conclusion has been that her role is essentially a passive one . |
| 27 | The middlemen who organized supplies of these crops for European traders were not only accumulators of capital but also invested in new opportunities , such as that created by the demand for cocoa in the 1890s . |
| 28 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 29 | Or survivals at the level of colour : liking for flat and intense colours , local earth and vegetable dyes , which may go all the way back to the ancient textile traditions such as that of the Paracas culture in Peru . |
| 30 | And in other debates , such as that on the European Parliament 's powers , there are hints that British intransigence may soften . |