Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will also want to prove just how much he has matured both as a player and as a man . |
| 2 | However , since 1983/84 local government expenditure has fallen slightly as a proportion of GNP and one would question the usefulness of the Retail Price Index as a measure of inflation within local government . |
| 3 | Action research has come about as a result of this common situation and what it tries to do is to evaluate what is already practice . |
| 4 | This has come about as a result of , well no . |
| 5 | The name change has come about as a result of LASMO plc 's reduction in its interest in the Canadian company . |
| 6 | This interest in VDUs has come about as a result of an EC Directive relating to DSE , and UK legislation introduced on 1 January this year . |
| 7 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |
| 8 | Jointly funded by the IFI and the DoE , it has come about as a result of the efforts of the Garrison and Melvin Community Development Association which was set up three years ago as a ‘ self help ’ group for the region . |
| 9 | Section 35 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 empowers the courts to require any person who has committed an offence to compensate anyone who has suffered adversely as a result of his crime . |
| 10 | It is significant that Phil Weston , with his imposing England Under-19 cv , has turned up as an opener alongside Curtis . |
| 11 | The availability of subsidies for care , whether through insurance companies or state schemes has acted both as an obstacle to change and as a change facilitator . |
| 12 | Robinson , 38 , who began his West career as a winger 20 years ago but has played mostly as a back row forward , will also play for Darlington next season . |
| 13 | The street was full of goldsmiths and silversmiths and their assistants and apprentices at the time : Messrs. Cook , Ive , Sarl , Hyams and others all appear in the commercial directories for that year , along with the tobacconists , Fribourg and Treyer , whose shop in Haymarket has persisted almost as an anachronism into the 1980s . |
| 14 | Television coverage of homosexuality in recent years has increased considerably as a result of AIDS and , more recently , Clause 28 . |
| 15 | Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again . |
| 16 | As time has gone on this emphasis has diminished partly as a response to the pressures of the marketplace . |
| 17 | Similarly , Alison Hennegan has described how as a teenager she hunted out lesbian fiction and based her decisions to investigate one text rather than another on clues as vague and ‘ irrational ’ as a publisher 's logo or a particular chapter title . |
| 18 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 19 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 20 | In July 1990 , he grabbed the last qualifying place for the World Championship cycle in a hard-fought tournament in Manila by defeating Mikhail Gurevich , one of Kasparov 's former trainers , in the final game from a position most players would have given up as a draw . |
| 21 | However , it is misleading to think of the Central Wales Line as having developed originally as a route from NW England to S Wales . |
| 22 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 23 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 24 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 25 | Eight of the American 's wins have come inside the distance and , having boxed occasionally as a lightheavyweight , feels he has sufficient power to worry Wharton who has won 12 and drawn one of his pro bouts . |
| 26 | It must have spewed out as a gas — a blindingly hot gas . ’ |
| 27 | But Arnold seems unaware of the strain that Jellett must have borne specifically as a woman artist , and one can not help but wonder if this contributed to her early death . |
| 28 | ‘ But you must have started out as a baby , ’ the boy said . |
| 29 | Despite having worked previously as an ethnographer , Bourdieu makes no attempt to employ the ethnographic method in this work , relying instead on a lengthy questionnaire reproduced at the end of the book . |
| 30 | Oddly enough , Stirling might well have ended up as a brigadier with an even larger command . |