Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the economics of bulk sales improve — Chemical reckons that the bulk-discount has fallen sharply as the property market has revived — Citicorp considers it worth sticking with property in order to help create a liquid market in it . |
| 2 | When we turn to trade in services it is no surprise to find that the UK 's net income from financial services has grown dramatically as the City 's banking and financial business has grown . |
| 3 | Others will need small sails in the afternoon , and may sometimes have to retire ashore as the wind picks up . |
| 4 | My prize for the most colourful quote goes to the scientist who said that the likelihood of humans having come about as the result of evolution was the same as a tornado in a scrapyard having accidentally assembled a Jumbo jet . |
| 5 | Chamberlain may have shrunk visibly as the clouds across the face of Europe had grown darker , but the British people had taken a different path . |
| 6 | Buyers will have to move quickly as the discounts apply to anyone who can complete by the end of January . |
| 7 | Two men had made off as the police arrived . |
| 8 | We had to pause awhile as the body of a suicide , dragged by the feet , was taken by city bailiffs to be dumped in the city ditch . |
| 9 | Something had sparked into life when they had first set eyes on each other , though , and even Julius 's self-control had melted away as the spark had ignited a flame , and then a fire . |
| 10 | One who had arrived there as the convulsions started was Charlton Heston who achieved almost instant stardom and became especially known for his appearances in the biblical epics . |
| 11 | I had woken up as the ferry was docking , feeling bad-breathed and half drunk , and had walked off the ramp , shown my passport at customs and asked where the police station was . |
| 12 | His two elderly companions had to watch helplessly as the skinheads attacked Mr Leonard on Vane Terrace . |
| 13 | Within minutes the noise level had increased perceptibly as the champagne began to have its effect . |
| 14 | ‘ If this had worked out as the terrorists had wanted then many lives would have been lost . |
| 15 | In thunderous silence he raced to the traffic lights and had to brake hard as the lights changed . |
| 16 | Admittedly the army had stood aside as the monarchy fell in April 1931 , but its acceptance of the Republic was anything but unrestrained . |
| 17 | These handicaps have increased steadily as the EC becomes more supranational . |
| 18 | An unquizzical synthesis of the fabliaux " explicit morals produces at best an alternative moral scheme to that which was conventional in the Christian Middle Ages — and is still , largely , conventional today ; a scheme that various critics have described either as the morality of efficacy , the liberation of the instinct , a morality of pleasure , hedonistic materialism , or pragmatic warnings of the need to avoid deception and the promise or threat of retributive justice . |