Example sentences of "have [verb] their [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having made their name as the most mischievous men in pop , their audience watched uneasily as Madness turned down the corners of their mouths . |
| 2 | Had the Conservatives lost another general election they might have lost credibility as a potential party of government , and this could well have damaged their role as the integrating force of the political right . |
| 3 | As we have already suggested , Jesus 's brother James , and the other members of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem , seem to have regarded their evangelising as a form of recruitment — a means whereby an army for the nation of Israel might be created . |
| 4 | For their part , the MRP leaders had presented their movement as the " party of fidelity " ( i.e. fidelity to de Gaulle ) and had , in the end , opposed the first constitutional draft . |
| 5 | He acknowledged the government 's awareness of the adverse social effects of the devaluation and said that it would take measures to alleviate them , including increasing wages in 1993 and compensating government employees who had lost their jobs as a result of the economic changes . |
| 6 | In the early eighteenth century the West Indian islands had established their position as the overseas area that meant most to Britain , and had become completely dependent on sugar and on slaves to grow the sugar . |
| 7 | For 150 years , police have regarded their job as the control of crime and criminals , of coping with social deviancy . |
| 8 | Bales ' ideas have been adapted by a number of British researchers , notably Rackham and Morgan ( 1977 ) , who have used their version as the basis for improving skills in inter-personal relationships . |
| 9 | Preliminary reports from local education authorities do not suggest that students have abandoned their courses as a result of the changes that we have made . |
| 10 | Over a hundred thousand people have fled their homes as a result of increasing Khmer Rouge activity ; it 's feared this could soon escalate into civil war . |
| 11 | A further 17 officers have lost their lives as a result of being shot , crushed or injured in some other way . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman , however , continues to deny the existence of that recession , which makes a mockery of those who have lost their jobs as a result of it . |
| 13 | FIREFIGHTERS who have lost their jobs as a result of Castlereagh Fire Station closing will receive a form of redundancy pay , thanks to east Belfast MP Peter Robinson . |
| 14 | They have become coordinators largely because they have established their reputations as the first to counteract those years of neglect , but they have themselves suffered more from that neglect than the new generation of community language teachers which is at last emerging . |