Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light . |
| 2 | One implication of phenomenal rates of economic growth can be seen in rising incomes leading to an enormous increase in the ownership of consumer durables , although it is debatable whether incomes have risen as fast as GNP . |
| 3 | With the October 1987 stockmarket crash and , now , a British recession , these revenues have vanished as capriciously as they arrived . |
| 4 | Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are . |
| 5 | This is because demands fur virtuosity have grown as well as for greater physical flexibility . |
| 6 | You also ca n't help noticing that attempts to drag the Royal Family into the 20th Century have failed as badly as attempts to do the same for this other great British anachronism . |
| 7 | Over the millennia , cultures have changed very substantially as they have learned to cope with environmental vicissitudes . |
| 8 | It was unlikely that any English advance-parties would in fact have got thus far as yet , but they went prepared . |