Example sentences of "that they [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement . |
| 2 | It sounds like that they know as |
| 3 | This is fuelled by a feeling that the primary sector may prove a pretty tough nut to crack , with local publishers offering resolute resistance in an area that they regard as their own back yard . |
| 4 | But above all their value to user education is that they act as focal points , so that if practitioners have a problem there is an information centre or clearinghouse to take it to as a first resort . |
| 5 | The traditional view of zebra stripes is that they act as camouflage , but even in woodland cover this is not convincing and , in any case , zebra herds spend most of their time on open grassland where the stripes can not hide them . |
| 6 | The following institutions state that they act as appointing authorities . |
| 7 | The groupings of performers seen in the livrets suggest that wind ensembles functioned to provide blocks of sound that is , that they played as consorts of like instruments . |
| 8 | Perhaps it is only because the duties of citizenship have been reduced to a minimum in those societies , with even voting being voluntary in most of them , that they survive as unitary states at all . |
| 9 | Even if by chance we happened to conceive of just these members of the series , it is surely not in virtue of that fact that they count as correct continuations . |
| 10 | Everything she hated was white : that slice of custard just now ; these little stones hard as sugared almonds at a christening ; the cones of rice , curly as white hyacinths , floating in a sea of whipped egg white , that they had as a supper treat ; the damask of the tablecloth that her sweaty palms would soil ; the chilly marble of the fireplace in the white salon ; the glistening pearls of tapioca that lurked at the bottom of soup . |
| 11 | Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities . |
| 12 | Some schools in fact survive because parents are operating under the mistaken assumption that the school is run and organised in very much the same way as the one that they attended as a child , even more so when it 's the same school . |
| 13 | Mona and Sheila were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . |
| 14 | Mona and Shiela were so poised on the edge of their own lives that they listened as if hearing about the living stream they were about to enter . ’ |
| 15 | Is it not an absolute absurdity that that person should spend an extra week in prison and my elderly pensioner couple should not get compensation for the damage that they suffered as a result of the burglary ? |
| 16 | And there came with him thirty and six Kings , and one Moorish Queen , who was a negress , and she brought with her two hundred horsewomen , all negresses like herself , all having their hair shorn save a tuft on the top , and this was in token that they came as if upon a pilgrimage , and to obtain the remission of their sins ; and they were all armed in coats of mail and with Turkish bows . |
| 17 | I looked more closely at his cheeks , and saw that they looked as if they had been rubbed to get them red . |
| 18 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere . |
| 19 | This group had isolated themselves socially because of the paranoia that they experienced as a side-effect of their drug use . |
| 20 | Of course , if you think about it the consequences of that is these guys die and when they die , those wives that they married as young girls are now middle-aged women or possibly younger , anyway past their youth , but th th they , they may not be . |
| 21 | They walked slowly up the church path , past the old graves , those so seared by time and weather that they stood as grey shapes furred with lichen , names and dates no longer legible , uniform in obscurity . |
| 22 | R.R. Darlington stressed that the ecclesiastical content of several tenth-century law codes suggests that they originated as the canons of synods. Æthelstan 's first code , for example , and his Ordinance on Charities , both say that they were framed on the advice of Archbishop Wulfhelm of Canterbury and other bishops , and the text known as I Edmund appears from its prologue to be a set of decisions taken purely by the ecclesiastical wing of the witan ( royal council ) ; they may eventually have been issued as a royal decree , but that I Edmund in its surviving form is something other than this is implied by the fifth chapter , which exhorts the king to put churches in order . |
| 23 | It is my contention that entrenchment and cynicism both reflect and serve to heighten an atmosphere of demoralization ; that they arise as a result of a semi-conscious decision by teachers about how to cope with doubts and demands ; that while this stance often seems the only possible option it is a mistake to adopt it ; and that through insight into the dynamics of the decision-making process , a better stance can be found , even in very trying circumstances , that offers a greater opportunity for personal satisfaction and institutional success . |
| 24 | Often the set lunches are so cheap , in fact , that they work as a loss leader — a taster to tempt people back in the evening . |
| 25 | The argument developed in this chapter is that teachers can ill afford to take this blinkered attitude towards LMS , even if in doing so they appear to be adopting a coping strategy that enables them to focus on those aspects of their work that they see as most important . |
| 26 | Things that they see as blanket oppression , I would see as possible sources of strength , such as arranged marriages . |
| 27 | This is because they are able to attract a wide range of able , graduate-level entrants ; they expect to ( and do ) lose a significant number of those but have the ability to retain the ones that they see as candidates to fill their senior management positions . |
| 28 | One advantage of base-isolated buildings is that they move as a unit . |
| 29 | Tennyson was a poet whose emotions were so deeply suppressed , even from himself , that they emerged as " the blackest melancholia " . |
| 30 | This might happen for some clumps of primordial germ cells are known to form intercellular bridges so that they exist as a syncytium ( fused cells , sharing several nuclei ) . |