Example sentences of "as [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will suit as much as them to have the fight later because it will give John that little bit more time to prepare after having his jaw broken in his last fight . ’ |
| 2 | The others , I explained , could be anywhere , as everyone had been reading them . |
| 3 | He said he could not explain why the iceberg was moving west and not east ‘ as everyone had anticipated ’ . |
| 4 | All she hoped was that her job was as secure as everyone had led her to believe . |
| 5 | erm we I mean we , we , we 've looked at the , the peasant tenant relationship erm and my , my opinion is that basically you know it was n't quite as bad as everyone 's made out erm but al okay we 're saying that warlords were , were very imperialistic and they were a huge fact to be considered but in Hunan and within the south erm eastern region say |
| 6 | So long as everyone has an equal right to vote there must be a limit to the variations in prosperity in the community that are politically acceptable . |
| 7 | Though if he took his own life , as everyone has always supposed , and as we are still likely to be supposing after the present rumours have been scotched — if the balance of his mind was disturbed , that curious disruption which accompanies a man 's election to end his life , but never any other procedure , no matter how eccentric or irrational — then reasons are not to be looked for . |
| 8 | There was very little noise as no-one had arrived — between twenty and thirty people were in the room — and we had this teeny stereo system about as big as a transistor radio for music . |
| 9 | She had rung the doorbell , but as no-one had come she had walked round the house to the garden . |
| 10 | Works like the transcriptions of Berlioz 's Fantastic Symphony , and the opera excerpts , Hexameron , the Ballades , Legends , Polonaises , and then there are those colossal religious pieces , some well known , others complete rarities ; all extend our appreciation and knowledge as no-one has done previously for Liszt 's piano music . |
| 11 | But their blueprint — or a photocopy of it — would still be a Godsend for today 's IRA assassins as nothing has been changed since . |
| 12 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |
| 13 | There was an angel watching over me , as someone had once predicted in my childhood when she read my fortune in the tea-leaves , in my cup of white china with the gilt shamrock on the rim and in the centre of the saucer . |
| 14 | But we were losing and as someone had to get him off his backside I thought it might as well be me . ’ |
| 15 | But , as someone had once said to her — she could n't remember who — hate was only a hair 's breadth away from love . |
| 16 | ‘ As long as someone has n't parked on the patch of paint and taken it all away on their tyres . ’ |
| 17 | So as soon as someone has faced the critical nature of his dilemma without God ( the first level ) and has come to recognize that if God 's revelation is true he does have a meaningful answer to his dilemma ( the second level ) , then , logically , the next urgent question is , But how may I know that God 's revelation is true ? |
| 18 | While the fax machine is easy to use , it 's less attractive when it comes to mass faxing , as someone has to feed each document in and dial the destination . |
| 19 | But I too would want to say that ( as someone has expressed it ) we see God through a Christ-shaped window : I have no doubt that , as a western person , my understanding of God has , in part at least , been shaped by the person who was Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 20 | Just as someone has short sight , penicillin allergy or diabetes never recovers from these conditions but can nonetheless do or not do various things that diminish their effects or progress , similarly , sufferers from addictive disease even though they may no longer use the substance or behaviour of addiction . |
| 21 | As someone has said , it has three words beginning with the letter P — it is a philosophy armed with a plan and fought with passion . |
| 22 | But erm , the people like and the left , did n't like the book either , because it did n't tell their particular interpretation , as kind of left Marxist er , interpretation as someone has it , was so popular at the time . |
| 23 | We pay something like one penny per square metre to cut grass and , as someone has already said , to an extent you get what you pay for . |
| 24 | name ; is a very respectable cook , so we make occasional trips to the supermarket and to the open market , and then eat at home in the evening , although we can also go out to a restaurant for a meal if we want , as someone has now kindly lent us a car . |
| 25 | What people objected to in the end was not God , as I 'd thought , but the suburban house in the background and the garden out of House and Garden . |
| 26 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |
| 27 | And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said . |
| 28 | Next day , as soon as I 'd finished giving a police statement about a drug addict who had threatened me and attempted to steal syringes and prescriptions , I went to see her in hospital . |
| 29 | It 's too bad , just as I 'd plucked up … . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Not as well as I 'd hoped . |