Example sentences of "as [noun] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as Whitehall had considered these matters it had been vaguely assumed that a status quo ante would be established and the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies , the French in Indochina , and the Colonial Office in Burma and Malaya would resume their rightful sway . |
| 2 | Had he succeeded , Sartre would have established dialectical reason as successfully for the human sciences as Kant had established analytical reason for natural science . |
| 3 | The close identity between fans and their club has weakened as football has become big business and as the players , who were once from the same working-class community as the fans , have become rich superstars . |
| 4 | But by then it was too late to withdraw , as David had gulped several mouthfuls of his lager and had set his glass back on the table . |
| 5 | These have been driven up , first , by a labour shortage , brought about by the ending of free immigration from China in 1980 , and now by increasing emigration from Hong Kong ; and , second , by the colony 's swift move up-market as manufacturers have relocated low-wage factories to southern China , leaving higher-paid jobs in Hong Kong , where their influence has pulled up wages in what would otherwise be poorly paid jobs . |
| 6 | As Suez had occurred twenty-four years earlier and as both Eden and Mountbatten were dead , it seemed to me that Sir Robert 's arguments were nonsensical . |
| 7 | Now , just as economists have spotted hard evidence of a revival , brokers and investors have begun to fret that the Federal Reserve will not cut American interest rates quickly enough to guarantee prosperity . |
| 8 | Erm as Eddie 's sent this thing here , this minus seventy pound nett , that is the nett difference that is the cost erm of what it cost us to actually hire the nets less the one pound fifty er per person , er per session that was paid , so that is the nett difference because we come there . |
| 9 | Debt-for-equity swaps have been used before in a number of South American countries , including Argentina , as banks have sought different ways of tackling the region 's chronic debt problem . |
| 10 | As Christ had brought spiritual redemption to humanity , so humanity in turn must redeem the whole of nature , which , as a consequence of Adam 's sin , was also fallen . |
| 11 | In this expansion of the policy side of regionalism , it resembles the policy aspects of planning , which should not be surprising since where regionalism as policy has had most impetus , it has originated from central planning concerns . |
| 12 | Its provision could no longer be ignored by government and left wholly to private charity , particularly as legislation had made public funds available for the education of hearing children from 1832 , and their education had been made compulsory by law in 1876 . |
| 13 | Just as scientists have developed special techniques for overcoming bias and artifact , such as the ‘ double blind ’ procedure , so would policemen have to invent concrete measures to overcome the problems they meet . |
| 14 | In the first phase of development in the early 1980s around 30 per cent of changes were bought by former council house tenants , but as prices have rocketed this percentage is now below 10 per cent . |
| 15 | As Brailsford had noted some years earlier : ‘ The decline of our trade with Germany , Russia and Austria would alone account for the whole volume of our present unemployment . ’ |
| 16 | And Magellan — just as Balboa had done seven years before — proudly unfurled the flag of Castile . |
| 17 | Though in fatigue uniform , they were almost as smart and well turned out as Charles had seen such soldiers in peace time behind the railings of Wellington Barracks . |
| 18 | Events there were taking much the same course as they had in Portugal , and as Mark had resolved that problem in double quick time , he was considered the best man to deal with this new problem situation . |
| 19 | In 1939 many men and women went , as others had done 25 years before , to serve in the Army , the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force . |
| 20 | It was only after the two thieves dressed up as policemen had escaped last Sunday with treasures conservatively estimated at $200m that it was revealed that they were uninsured . |