Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should have come as a complete surprise , but the man swayed , taking Ross 's fist on his shoulder . |
| 2 | One must have served as a recumbent tombstone , since it has a slot at one end to hold a vertical cross . |
| 3 | Martin Browne himself believed that Eliot was too ready to rely upon outworn social and theatrical conventions , but suggested that they " reflect an unconscious reversion to the drama that Eliot must have seen as a young theatregoer before 1914 " . |
| 4 | Whatever it is about the cuckoo 's gape that acts like a drug on the host 's nervous system , it must have originated as a genetic mutation . |
| 5 | ‘ When you got the solicitor 's letter saying you 'd inherited the place it must have come as a terrific shock . |
| 6 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 7 | Being so far advanced in this objective , even before the evening started , it must have come as a great surprise when the meeting was jolted into controversy by an unexpected suggestion from Councillor B. Watts . |
| 8 | All the rulings have been accepted by the companies concerned , not always without some hard pounding en route , and the adverse publicity arising must have acted as a powerful deterrent to other companies contemplating the use of accounting treatments on a basis of doubtful motivation and justification . |
| 9 | Although Toryism might have survived as a distinctive ideology , and although a Tory party with its own organisation might have continued to exist , the fact of the matter is that single-party government was established under George I and George II , and there was no swinging back and forth between Tory- and Whig-dominated administrations such as had happened under William and Anne . |
| 10 | Theatre , in past centuries , might have counted as a mass medium : it was an effective way of spreading ideas , and so it suffered official censorship ( not abolished until the 1960s ) . |
| 11 | She made between 70 and 90 blouses a week which , despite the low rate of pay , compares well with what she might have got as a part-time worker in a sweat shop , the most likely alternative . |
| 12 | It may have begun as a seasonal steading , only later being permanently occupied . |
| 13 | In general we are our own worst enemies when it comes to enlarging and reinforcing our fears , so that what may have begun as a minor apprehension can escalate into a problem of mammoth proportions . |
| 14 | The consequence of what Nicholls may have intended as a politic and eirenical statement was suspension , degradation , and imprisonment . |
| 15 | There was a small top storey , a room on the flat roof which may have functioned as a sleeping place on hot summer nights : there were similar roof chambers on Egyptian houses too . |
| 16 | Whilst the provisions of the agreement should when drafted accurately reflect what the partners desire to happen in certain specified events or , at any rate , what the partners may have agreed as a satisfactory basis for subsequent negotiation or a sufficient fall-back position if those negotiations should break down , they should be kept under regular review . |
| 17 | Even if they were not consciously doing so , feelings of risk may have acted as an important retrieval cue in the context . |
| 18 | NEIL Kinnock 's slightly manic conducting of Men of Harlech at Egglescliffe School on Friday may have come as a mild surprise to the attendant gentlemen of the Press . |
| 19 | For secondary school teachers of mathematics who have been eager to respond to the call for investigative work , the introduction of GCSE coursework assessment may have come as a rational consequence of what they see as timely changes in the curriculum . |
| 20 | For the five-part piece that follows , for which the livret suggests that both strings and winds played , the score does not reveal whether the oboe band would have played as a four-part ensemble or have expanded to five parts in order to double all the strings . |
| 21 | Mary had once mentioned Tom to her but his marriage to Alice would , she knew , be of no significance in the intensely inward life of the old woman whom unsympathetic observers would have categorised as a mad old crone . |
| 22 | Tawney 's argument placed ‘ the world of Labour ’ explicitly before his audience , at a time when he and they were concerned about the WEA 's drift towards the middle class — a drift that any radical , like Tawney , would have regarded as an unqualified loss , an opting for the ‘ line of least resistance ’ . |
| 23 | On being introduced he made an effort not to avert his eyes , as one felt he would have done as a young man . |
| 24 | But if they were taut , they would have acted as a small trampoline , bouncing the hammer up towards the string again . |
| 25 | He was what her mother would have described as a good man . |
| 26 | For instance , we can easily miss the point made by our Lord when he set a child in the midst of the crowd and declared to the surrounding throng that if they wished to enter the Kingdom of Heaven they would have to become as a little child ( Matt. |
| 27 | It is a term which Carver would have used as a young man to dissociate himself and his peers from others , and its use here encourages the reader to share Carver 's memories of his own surprise and , perhaps , disappointment at Gardner 's appearance . |
| 28 | In the United Sterling case the basis for dismissing the motion was that there was no evidence that the defendant was given any special information which he ought to have regarded as a separate part of his stock of knowledge which an honest employee would have recognised as property of the employer . |
| 29 | Being nervous and taking risks are two of the main things you will have to face as an aspiring actor , and that first time you read a play with a group of strangers , rather than in a classroom or among friends is when you confront your first hurdle . |
| 30 | So , until EMI comes to its senses and restores it to the catalogue , the Nuova Era will have to stand as an adequate , if less than ideal stopgap . |