Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polypropylene has earned its place as a large volume high growth polymer [ 11 per cent per annum compound for the past give years ] because of its attractive balance of properties , its ability to be processed by a wide variety of techniques , and its competitive economics and cost effectiveness . |
| 2 | As to judicial lawmaking , the practice of prospective overruling has attracted my attention as a hard case for those theories of judicial process which involve a strong commitment to coherence , consistency and institutional fit . |
| 3 | The relative complexity of gastric crypt anatomy compared with colorectal mucosa has discouraged its use as an experimental model in proliferation research . |
| 4 | Often they take casual jobs , and William Gaminara has turned his experience as an out-of-work thesp into a sparky new play at the Hampstead Theatre . |
| 5 | He wears jeans , sneakers and leather bomber jackets and talks in teenage jargon , but — at the age of 65 — Fluff has decided his time as a pop picker is up . |
| 6 | Though it has made its name as a mainframe software house , Compuware is keen to broaden its horizons . |
| 7 | Ian St James , who organizes and finances the awards , has made his fortune as a best-selling author . |
| 8 | On a less sombre note , Philip — Pat 's better half and General Factotum , has made his mark as an Archer — of the bow and arrow type — not the Radio soap opera . |
| 9 | And Alan Shearer , who has shown his versatility as a striker by scoring several of his 16 goals for Blackburn from distance , ought to try and do the same for England . |
| 10 | Maybe soap has had its day as a place where those more progressive arguments are being investigated . |
| 11 | She has offered her plight as an example of what is happening to many small producers . |
| 12 | Here is the kind of letter you will write for a reference : re Mr John Smith The above is proposing to take a lease of certain residential premises at an annual rent of £ and maintenance charges at present £ , and he has supplied your name as a reference . |
| 13 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 14 | The Dales authority has defended its plans as an extension to public subsidies to landowners for the preservation of the countryside . |
| 15 | Someone who has grabbed your wrist as an unfunny joke only deserves , if reason fails , a sharp slap round the face . |
| 16 | A teacher with considerable experience and further training , who has demonstrated his abilities as a design consultant for both curricula and materials . |
| 17 | It opened with his favourite theme : ‘ During the past ten years the system of standing Cabinet Committees has proved its value as a means of relieving the Cabinet of a great weight of less important business . ’ |
| 18 | The Institute also received its first complaint about the way it has fulfilled its role as an RSB : this has been passed on to the Institute 's ombudsman Anthony Surtees for review . |
| 19 | With production costs of £1.55p per barrel of oil equivalent , SNH has consolidated its position as a leading gas producer in the Southern Basin , according to the latest McKinsey report . |
| 20 | Arthur Exell , who worked at Morris Radiators , supplying components for Morris Motors at Cowley in the 1930s , has recorded his experiences as a working man in a new and expanding Morris Motors . |
| 21 | Burnfield ( 1985 ) , a psychiatrist with multiple sclerosis , states : ‘ I believe that having MS has helped me to become more sensitive to the needs of others and that it has enhanced my skills as a healer . |
| 22 | As trade and industry spokesman and , more recently , environment spokesman , Mr Gould has enhanced his reputation as a parliamentarian and TV performer . |
| 23 | In the way in which , down the years , it has kept its responsibilities as a cultural centre sensibly in step with its growing commercial importance and prosperity , it is something of a model . |
| 24 | The colonised body which Kahlo clothed in revolutionary idealism has lost its function as a symbol of nationhood becoming instead an icon of female suffering . |
| 25 | A potato variety which can survive Britain 's increasingly dry weather better than most has lost its status as a priority crop for farmers because the supermarkets have turned against it . |
| 26 | The programme will have succeeded if , in 15 years ' time , primary health care in the capital has lost its status as the national laggard ; the quality of the services it offers matches or exceeds that enjoyed in the rest of England ; and London has become a place where aspiring primary health care practitioners in all disciplines aim to work . |
| 27 | MORGAN Grenfell has maintained its position as the top financial adviser for British public takeovers . |
| 28 | At Guinness Publishing , the other Guinness Enterprises company , the ever-popular Guinness Book of Records has maintained its position as the world 's best-selling copyright book . |
| 29 | Founded in 1864 , the group has maintained its image as a typical home service company , with a mixture of ordinary and industrial branch life business and general insurance business sold through a field force of up to 6,500 individuals , second only in terms of size to the Prudential 's of more than 12,000 . |
| 30 | ENynex Corp has extended its status as the biggest cable television operator in the UK by buying out US Cable Corp and Morgan Cable Ltd to take control of the Bury and Rochdale and Oldham and Tameside cable franchises : the New York and New England phone company now holds 19 franchises surviving a potential 2.7m homes and offices , and says it plans to invest over £1,000m in the next six to seven years to provide cable and telephone services ; at present it is providing cable television services to only 35,000 customers and 20,000 telephone lines . |