Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [adj] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of coverage of a typical meeting was £1,412 , and that is what a single customer would have to pay , but when many channels have been interested , the price has fallen as low as £36 . |
| 2 | But for priority shareholders — customers of companies who will qualify for the 10p discount on each of the subsequent 70p part-payments should only sell when the price has risen as high as 150p to 160p . |
| 3 | Since then , however , his reputation has become as tarnished as Nixon 's . |
| 4 | The really significant change in divorce , in terms of both law and behaviour , has taken place in the twentieth century ; and as Stone devotes only forty of his 422 pages to a consideration of the period after 1857 , he essentially precludes an answer to the question he poses , namely , why divorce has become as common as taxes and death . |
| 5 | This problem has become more obvious as hospitals have increasingly adopted the policy of having open wards . |
| 6 | The film had cost at least $25 million ( and may have soared as high as $33 million if all costs were considered ) which , in 1970 dollars , put it way above the epic category . |
| 7 | In the hands of a Christopher Isherwood some of these characters might have become as memorable as Sally Bowles in Goodbye To Berlin . |
| 8 | Since unemployment had risen as high as 23% between the wars the committee did not satisfy everybody who was involved in the full employment discussions . |
| 9 | The arms are then allowed to drop down to the sides of the body , suddenly , as though they had become as heavy as lead . |
| 10 | The language feminists used to make this appeal was steeped in the evangelical tradition , which in the early and mid-nineteenth century had proved as successful as science in containing women , but which in the later part of the century was used by feminists to argue for an extension of maternal influence beyond the home . |
| 11 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 12 | You 've gone as white as snow . ’ |
| 13 | Associated with this internationalization of production , sales and purchases have become increasingly international as products are made for a world market rather than for ‘ local ’ national buyers . |
| 14 | The issues have become as weightless as clouds of electrons , and the candidates mere actors in commercials . " |
| 15 | Estimates for the cost of renovation have run as high as $18 million . |