Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BEN Jones , an elderly lawyer and nutmeg farmer , has been sworn in as Grenada 's prime minister after the death of Herbert Blaize , who had ruled the southern Caribbean spice island since the withdrawal of US invasion troops five years ago . |
| 2 | Some patients with chronic liver disease may have been followed up as outpatients and may not have been admitted to hospital during the study period and , thus , these too would not have been identified . |
| 3 | Although the points made in extract ( 11 ) could have been expressed objectively as statements that certain buildings in certain locations are more beautiful since restoration , both speakers relate such statements to personal experience . |
| 4 | The sad thing is that if all the OAPs and others who genuinely ca n't afford the extra withheld that portion of their poll tax , my God , would n't we have been pounced on as lawbreakers and worse and dealt with ten times faster than the poll tax rebels who withhold purely for so-called political reasons . |
| 5 | Of course these ticket stocks could have been used up as Day Returns as no rate was quoted on the ticket . |
| 6 | Such certification could only have been dreamed up as window dressing to exonerate the Agriculture Departments in circumstances where damage could have occurred . |
| 7 | Even the bricks are Dutch , having been brought back as ballast from Holland after the Lambton coal had been disgorged from their boats . |
| 8 | There is a curious contradiction here between Shedlock 's remark that the manuscript seems to have been copied up as Purcell completed the various numbers and his observation that it contains the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival — ; or , to be more precise , labelled ‘ new ’ where it appears in the 1693 word-book . |
| 9 | In the eyes of elderly people many NHS hospitals were still Poor Law institutions , since many had been built originally as workhouses and had not changed a great deal in appearance . |
| 10 | Large caverns had been fitted out as barracks and guard room , and these were a hive of activity as the base personnel stumbled from their beds to snatch weapons , rushing into the tunnels half-dressed . |
| 11 | He saved much that had been thrown away as rubbish , and would otherwise have perished without trace . |
| 12 | They had been thrown together as strangers , and so they would remain . |
| 13 | In the room each bit of furniture seemed to be too far away from the others , as if they had been dropped there as markers , but the space was eroding them . |
| 14 | The important points for the surname study were that his name had been spelt both as Fortereshey and Forsteresheigh , as well as Forsey and , perhaps most significantly of all , the name of the estate itself was given as Forstereshey . |
| 15 | In recent years , the obituaries have been pencilled in as Liverpool have brought in younger strike partners . |
| 16 | Pghorbol esters such as 12- O -tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate ( TPA ) can substitute for diacylglycerol and have been used extensively as tools to investigate actions of protein kinase C. |
| 17 | Indeed , very often cultural styles — those of the mods and the punks , for example — have been used precisely as forms of rebellion or critique , in relation to the everyday world of work and consumption ( see Hebdige 1979 ) . |
| 18 | Fergus Aherne of Ireland and the Welshman Gary Jones have been brought in as replacements for Gary Armstrong and John Jeffrey in the Barbarians ' team to play the All Blacks on Saturday . |
| 19 | ‘ A large number of properties have been closed down as landlords pull out because they can not afford to upgrade them , ’ she said . |
| 20 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |