Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it is too bad about the Kuwaitis ; but oil is a commodity and Iraq will have to sell it just as Kuwait did . |
| 2 | Again , the boys , having valued themselves highly as pupils , apparently proceed to ‘ discount ’ the girls . |
| 3 | Its length is approximately 100 metres and whilst if the axis had run through any part of its length I would have shrugged it off as coincidence again , the fact that it intersects the relatively tiny west end of the barrow suggests a high degree of precision alignment . |
| 4 | The score is mostly in the handwriting of one or more copyists , who seem to have put it together as Purcell completed the various numbers , leaving blanks for what was not ready . |
| 5 | A line erased and recut seems to have described him originally as tyrant of Gel a , and the political events reflected in this claim and its cancellation can only belong to the seventies . |
| 6 | Wright because the directors had held themselves out as agents of some of the shareholders and thus were capable of being considered as fiduciaries to those shareholders . |
| 7 | Politicians , accountants , television producers , newspaper editors and all such mandarins who have set themselves up as authorities with power to say yea or nay to us , to sift right from wrong , good from bad , lawful from criminal , and to decide what the rest of us may know and what we may not ( ‘ All the News that 's Fit to Print ’ ) exploit this wondrous paradoxical nature of language with uncanny skill to attain and retain their hegemony over others . |