Example sentences of "have [vb pp] as " in BNC.

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1 The numbers of work permits issued have fallen as the British unemployment rate has risen .
2 But hopes of seeing Dublin-born Leicestershire batman Justin Benson in action for Munster have evaporated as he is tied up with Leicestershire 's Second XI next Thursday and Friday in the hope of being selected for Leicestershire 's three-day match against Australia .
3 Faced with dwindling sales and stiffer competition , all luxury-goods firms need to turn to the boring disciplines that many have dismissed as suitable for widget-makers , but hardly appropriate for a trade where cachet brings in the cash .
4 Many theologians have embraced a scepticism about the historicity of events or sayings in the life of Jesus which ancient historians have regarded as excessive when measured against their own assessments of other , secular figures in the past .
5 In our own time it has been only fascists , racists and their ilk who ha–e felt the urge to slaughter vast numbers of people whom they have regarded as different from themselves .
6 However , the institution which many sociologists have regarded as central in perpetuating inequality — and also , crucially , central in potentially eliminating inequality — is education .
7 I was favoured with your letter and should have been glad to embrace this opportunity of sending a packet of seeds to Dr. Manetti of Florence , but the season has been so cold that but few of them have ripened as yet , but if the next month proves favourable , I hope to send him some in November , if you have any opportunity to convey them .
8 And , believe me , Ari , if you have developed as I hoped , you are truly ‘ free ’
9 G. M. Henry , in his classic A Guide to the Birds of Ceylon , puts forward this argument to explain why the birds that have developed as separate species and subspecies are found in the southern , mountainous half of the island .
10 Some universities ( Manchester , Edinburgh , London ) have developed as ‘ Centres of Excellence ’ in computing , providing regional computing services to external bodies on a partially commercial basis , and their expenditures clearly demonstrate this .
11 He said ( at pp128 , 129 ) : The respondent will have the £10,000 to which I have referred as damages in respect of ( a ) loss of her dependency and ( b ) loss of her interest in the savings which her husband would have made .
12 Those of you who have registered as members of the network will have received with this second issue of the Bulletin a list of other who have also registered .
13 They point out that corporate bad debts have soared as the economy has slumped .
14 C You 're fit and active and capable of lifting a 20kg anchor , or , you have sailed as crew on a small sailing cruiser and you have helped to run the yacht .
15 Remember that , even if no such room exists for you , you have written as though it does .
16 I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered .
17 Now this next part is very important — READ THE NEXT SENTENCE AND THEN DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER UNTIL YOU HAVE DONE AS I ASK .
18 All that statutory reforms have done as yet is to make piecemeal extensions of the remedies afforded to members so that they can be invoked by personal representatives of members .
19 Indeed , it is the fact of recession which rather suggests that the greatest threat to the persistence of corporatist arrangements may come , not from the Left and labour , but from the Right and from the industrial capitalists themselves — those interests , that is , that the Left have seen as having benefited most from corporatism .
20 In these hard and unforgiving times , some people have struggled as they 've never had to before .
21 Public expectations have risen as people have watched the impact of medical technology in America .
22 I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered .
23 British banks have suffered as high interest rates pushed property into slump .
24 We 've done better than most , but our membership levels have suffered as well .
25 I would hope to look them eye to eye and speak to them as one of humanity as I am , as people who have suffered as I have , and as have 3,000 people in Northern Ireland and as the Balls now have in Warrington .
26 We are risk averse at the moment because we have suffered as you rightly say er so much from bad debts during the recession .
27 Taylor said : ‘ The FA have always been good employers to all the previous managers who have suffered as I am suffering the kind of criticism that is about .
28 How can a child feel able to tell , and have confidence in those who say they have their ‘ best interests ’ in mind , when the person they have named as their abuser is to be involved in everything that then happens to them ?
29 What I have presented as analysis of current movements may well have acquired a historical flavour by the time these words are read .
30 We have made as we intended to do , if you remember we er advertised widely in accordance with our equal opportunities policy , er for that post but also I think in accordance with equal opportunity we wanted to give people the er chance to develop their range of skills internally for some of the er lower grade posts and therefore er initially the other posts er have been advertised internally and we filled the temporary er assistant administration erm post er internally .
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