Example sentences of "as this " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some aspects of group work which never change — the satisfaction felt on receiving a letter such as this , for example : |
| 2 | ‘ I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize , ’ Van Gogh had written , groping to define for his brother the human essence that was his aim in pictures such as this . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Dear me , ’ she said , ‘ one is surprised to find foreigners in a place such as this . |
| 4 | It is always dangerous to draw individual implications from social and psychological survey-work such as this , but it does fit : Leonard 's admission of insomnia , of disturbing dreams and nightmares , his high sensitivity , his creative abilities ; not least his father 's demise and his mother 's need to attend to him during his frequent bouts of sickness before it . |
| 5 | From facts such as this , Fodor argues that the parsing mechanism constitutes one independent cognitive module among others , which can be studied in terms of representations that are built from the raw input of the speech stream ‘ bottom up ’ . |
| 6 | How is a ‘ cognisant episode ’ such as this going to be analysed away into the language of activity ? |
| 7 | Opening an area such as this to the public means just that , and together with genuine walkers and climbers arrive the wild flower pickers , the egg stealers and the litter louts . |
| 8 | Accordingly , an assembly such as this in England — and let me remind you there have been earlier ones , at Sheffield and Keele — is an act of homage to a great and greatly maligned poet ; but it is also , and can not help but be , a patriotic demonstration against ‘ suffocating insular coziness ’ . |
| 9 | If a great opera such as this has difficulty holding a place in the repertoire , what hope is there for the merely excellent ? |
| 10 | ‘ It is an accepted practice in dire situations such as this that the board is replaced or supplemented by a new board charged with the function of restoring the fortunes of the company and the confidence of customers , ’ the letter says . |
| 11 | The avalanche of red tape surrounding events such as this ( the entire population of New Delhi appears to be employed handing out forms to fill in ) has to be seen to be believed , and it is by no means certain that , come 1 November , there will be any paper left to provide the winners with their cheque . |
| 12 | It is as a result of fears such as this that members of the RUC are required to obtain official permission before they cam talk to outsiders , such as the Press and researchers , or face being sacked from the force . |
| 13 | A technical problem such as this raises interesting methodological questions , because it forces one to ask which style of research is better suited to overcoming respondents ' resistance and suspicion , especially when talking about sensitive and controversial topics . |
| 14 | Therefore , the existence of atrocity stories on subjects such as this does not of itself reveal that this work is emotionally undemanding ; simply that this is one impression that the story is intended to convey . |
| 15 | Discretion such as this , what Klockars ( 1985 ) calls ‘ selective enforcement ’ , has provoked considerable interest right from the beginning of sociology 's concern with policing ( for example Goldstein 1960 , 1963 ; La Favre 1965 ) . |
| 16 | A process of practical reasoning amongst neighbourhood men such as this is , therefore , also vital to the accomplishment of effective community policing . |
| 17 | It does not seem to me that a reader principally interested in capitalism , or imperialism , or the theories of such Marxist writers as Althusser or Gramsci would turn to a book such as this , and so I have kept discussion of these topics to a minimum . |
| 18 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |
| 19 | The result of this scholarly study often produced tall houses such as this , with a semi-basement to rise above the damp and a stairway up to the main floor to add importance . |
| 20 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 21 | Similarly , on retreats such as this one , the fire of the Holy Spirit has an opportunity to burn away the dross of the Church and even of doctrine that may obscure the faith that is central to all we believe and hope for . |
| 22 | God has a way on retreats such as this of bringing home to us the challenge of a first-order question : ‘ Do you love me in the way Mary loved me and allowed herself to be used for my mission ? ’ |
| 23 | Under their teacher 's guidance little hands had struggled — arranging , rearranging , fingering — plates such as this , to remember , and to show love for , the aged at Christmas-time . |
| 24 | In a study of metal development such as this it is essential to examine datable or chronologically ordered artefacts . |
| 25 | A sea of wild cornflowers such as this is a rare sight in the countryside these days |
| 26 | I think now of the way the shaggy but emaciated-looking , dull-eyed sheep who wander so wearily about the paths and tracks of the Forest of Dean find their way into the brick bus shelters on nights such as this . |
| 27 | It was pleasant to stroll around on an evening such as this , thinking productively about the work which would make his name ( and his fortune ) and restore to him the sense of achievement he had so greatly enjoyed as an undergraduate journalist and Union wit . |
| 28 | A comment such as this can indicate to a friend that the person is working out their grief very strongly but is still stuck on the question : ‘ Is he gone for ever or is n't he ? ’ |
| 29 | In ways such as this one has to be careful in using coin evidence , but , allowing for these and similar qualifications , it can still be extremely useful . |
| 30 | Sometimes they demonstrably were not ; for example , portraits of the Emperor Augustus struck at the end of his reign , when he was seventy-six , do not depict a man of that age and do not correspond with the unflattering description given by his biographer , Suetonius. portraits such as this are intended to be the embodiment of a political ideal rather than a realistic likeness ( though in some cases , such as that of Nero , they might be both ) . |