Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [vb pp] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although worker-priests have been active in promoting the possibilities for convergence between Christianity and Sandinismo , the head of the Nicaraguan Church Cardinal Obando y Bravo has emerged as a focus for the non-armed Nicaraguan opposition . |
| 2 | One would think ( as I think ) that this story has served as a vehicle through which people expressed their love of God , but not that it is true . |
| 3 | I know that the organisational change has come as a shock to you , as it has for me , but we want to part company after all these years , on the best and friendliest of terms . |
| 4 | Up to now all the wires have been stationary , and the magnetic field has varied as a function of time . |
| 5 | ‘ Since the board has elected as a matter of practice not to give reasons , and has given none to Mr. Cunningham , it has been bound by its own logic not to attempt to justify for the benefit of the court the figure awarded . |
| 6 | The respect once given to older people for their knowledge and experience has suffered as a result of several factors : the decline of custom , the acceleration of change and the loss of oral traditions . |
| 7 | The criminal penalties , however , are draconian : up to twenty years imprisonment and up to $25,000 fine for each count ; provision is also made for pre-trial freezing of assets and post-trial forfeiture of any interest the defendant has gained as a result of his violation . |
| 8 | This examination of the range and extent of sex crime reporting shows both how pervasive sexual violence has become as a news item , and also how only a very small number of cases are selected as being ‘ newsworthy ’ . |
| 9 | This attitude has come as a shock to many in Hollywood who are falling over themselves to sign him . |
| 10 | The coach has served as a garden shed for many years at Clunbury in Shropshire and consequently is in poor condition and minus its running gear . |
| 11 | With the coming of literacy and the eventual separation of secular interests from religion , the world corpus of mytho-history has served as a quarry from which many different kinds of specialized literature have been extracted , poetry and drama especially . |
| 12 | With an established Green Party to articulate public anxiety , together with a national rallying point provided by the devastation of forests by acid rain — at least some of which is attributable to vehicle exhaust emission — it should not be surprising that transport has emerged as a ma–or cause of environmental concern in West Germany . |
| 13 | Expenditure on education has diminished as a proportion of public expenditure , falling from 20 per cent in 1979 to 13.7 per cent in 1984 , then rising to 17.8 per cent in 1988 . |
| 14 | In the past too much essential curriculum and materials development has occurred as a result of goodwill rather than policy and planning . |
| 15 | Wellcome has produced AZT , the first drug licensed for the treatment of Aids , and its share price has risen as a result . |
| 16 | He says attendance at evening service has doubled as a result . |
| 17 | This is true in that consumer demand has collapsed as a result of the credit squeeze , the bursting of the property bubble and rising unemployment . |
| 18 | Radius has grown as a company by acquiring firms in specific vertical markets , and Bland said , spends a lot of time looking for suitable purchases . |
| 19 | While age has emerged as a predictor of the current linguistic achievement in BSL , it need not always be the case if BSL teachers are able to learn from the second language literature . |
| 20 | his magazine has adopted as a result |
| 21 | The news has come as a surprise to the local council . |
| 22 | So this news has come as a disappointment to local business leaders . |
| 23 | over , over the century , er , although as a proportion , agricultural trade has fallen as a proportion of total trade , right , and that reflects a number of influences . |
| 24 | This topic has lingered as a question over many WACC activities , and a significant contribution has been made by the WACC-initiated study on the mass media and village life in India . |
| 25 | Our lack of a regional strategy has acted as a brake on our economic development and , in the future , it will be a barrier to competing in the single market . |
| 26 | Kwik Save 's success has acted as a magnet to continental European discounters : ‘ Three years ago there was only really Kwik Save , ’ says Henrik Gundelach who is in charge of Netto 's British business . |
| 27 | A POLL tax write-off row has flared as a council 's shortfall heads for £27m . |
| 28 | The firm has acted as a clearing house for information on plantations , charcoal and gasifiers for years . |
| 29 | I shall confine myself to mentioning that under the present Government NHS spending has increased as a proportion of gross domestic product . |
| 30 | There are eight other lines of action which the Plans Project has identified as a means of recovering ground or of preventing mistakes from being compounded . |