Example sentences of "as [noun pl] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |