Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [vb pp] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Incarceration has increased as a form of punishment . |
| 32 | More than any other single film , Brief Encounter has operated as a barometer of the prevailing assumptions in British film culture . |
| 33 | This situation has arisen as a result of the serious manpower shortage of physicians willing to undertake these difficult and often conflicting types of care . |
| 34 | Fundholding has acted as a catalyst for change in Britain 's general practice community — the ultimate outcome of the experiment remains to be seen . |
| 35 | If this perspective is adopted , environmentalists ought perhaps to be grateful for the fact that the vast majority of farmers are not more economically rational when they come to organize the husbandry of their farms and that the inertia introduced by the historical pattern of landownership and farm structure in this country has acted as a brake on landscape change . |
| 36 | The operation of the electoral system has changed as a result of alterations in the level and distribution of support for the political parties , so that the value of a vote is far less for the supporters of some parties than others and in some constituencies than in others . |
| 37 | Sciagraphy has grown as a convention used by architects and engineers because it can be used to reveal detail in forms that might otherwise be lost in orthographic linear projections . |
| 38 | However , public expenditure has fallen as a proportion of GDP . |
| 39 | The Serpent throughout time has existed as a symbol of the energizing creative force of the one supreme universal Spirit . |
| 40 | Language has developed as a sign system — one of the ways in which humans communicate and make sense of the world around them . |
| 41 | The working class has declined as a percentage of the population . |