Example sentences of "that they [verb] [verb] as " in BNC.

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1 These stations are run by boards appointed by the state governments so that they tend to act as mouthpieces of the respective state governments .
2 Do they end up working the way we 've got to bloody work here on this tiny pension or the pension that they 've earned as an MP
3 Your detractors will ask challenging questions or make speeches that they try to disguise as questions .
4 Coercive inducements are inducements which are so powerful , and so difficult to refuse , that they come to act as a kind of coercion .
5 Bright stockings , and long hair , and trousers in untrouserlike colours like pink and lemon yellow , velvet jackets , loud voices and laughter , warned the staider citizens of Shorehaven that actors had arrived in their midst , an exotic flock of migrant birds whose fine plumage mocked the grey and tan and black that they had adopted as camouflage for the winter months .
6 A reorganization of the Land Cabinet in Saxony-Anhalt took place on Aug. 16 , following the resignation of the Free Democrat deputy Minister President Gerd Brunner on Aug. 9 and of the Agriculture Minister four days later , over accusations that they had acted as agents for the former East German Ministry of State Security — the " Stasi " .
7 Several East German politicians were affected by accusations that they had acted as Stasi informants , including most notably de Maizière [ see pp. 37905 ; pp. 38109-10 ; 37718 ; 38446-47 ] .
8 But with the coming of modernity proper , that is with industrialisation , what made the philosophies so potent was that they became embodied as a functional rationality .
9 Though L4 of Nematodirus spp. apparently arrested in their development have been recorded at necropsy , there is no obvious seasonal pattern to their occurrence and it seems more likely that they have accumulated as a consequence of host resistance rather than hypobiosis .
10 It extends , it seems , to a claim for compensation in respect of all the loss which the plaintiffs say that they have suffered as a result of the transaction concerning C.M.C. and the bakery , including the amounts which the plaintiffs have had to pay as guarantors and compensation for loss of earnings , loss of reputation and mental anguish .
11 Now at about the time that that letter was written on the twenty second of October er Mr had the meeting at the National Westminster Bank that had been arranged between himself and a Mrs and it is clear from er this meeting that the bank would no longer er , given that the Frinton property was not to be offered as security , prepared to offer the sum , the substantial sums that they had originally agreed to do and they were now only prepared to offer very much smaller sums and the plaintiff 's case is that the only way that they were going to be able to proceed to complete on this matter was er by selling their homes , their family home at and it is the plaintiff 's case , certainly in relation to er the losses that they have sustained as a result of the breach of contract , alleged in this case , that er if they had not been forced to go ahead to complete on this deal they would not have been required to sell their family home .
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