Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There who are they on about three four three four three four to call it 's er a very public figure very public you 're bound to have heard of him you 've probably seen him as well I would have thought I would have thought so as some stage picture always in the paper there as well you know nice big swanky car too . |
| 2 | So , as I say , the Muse of History laughed when Britain , which had risen almost as one man to take the Falklands from the Argentine , then quite logically watched , passive and embarrassed , while the United States occupied the independent sovereign state of Grenada . |
| 3 | There , for 20 years , she had watched helplessly as that country 's wildlife was systematically hunted to extinction . |
| 4 | Of Callejas 's new Cabinet , also sworn in on Jan. 27 , Benjamin Villanueva Tábora was Economy and Commerce Minister in 1977-79 and Finance Minister in 1981 ; Ramón Medina Luna had been a Deputy Economy Minister ; Manlio Martínez had served on a previous occasion as Planning Minister ; Col. Francisco Zepeda Andino had served as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force ; and Rodolfo Rosales Abella of the opposition PLH had served briefly as Labour Minister in the last few months of the presidency of José Simeon Azcona . |
| 5 | The demand for courses had declined dramatically as more facilities became available in Third World countries . |
| 6 | Two weeks after quitting their civic home of more than 60 years to move into new offices in the town hall , Loftus town councillors now have to look again as looming charge capping of the district council could mean the closure of the uneconomical hall . |