Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had sought to interest some of the more enterprising newspapers , especially as I hoped to be able , if possible , to push on to Abyssinia ; but , in the end , I went in independence , as I have undertaken most excursions , both terrestrial and mental . |
| 2 | As I have emphasised three times , the previous Select Committee on Health and Social Services made a number of pleas to the Government not to get us into the position that we are in now . |
| 3 | I was interested in the Trend ellipse jig ( WW/Dec.91-p.1227 ) as I have made similar devices . |
| 4 | In broad terms , because soft systems thinking represents a unique way of encouraging an observer to learn about a situation , it should appeal to virtually anyone who has an enquiring mind , a notion reflected in the closing paragraphs of Systems Thinking , Systems practice ; as I have made frequent reference to this work throughout , it seems appropriate to finish my book with the following quote from Professor Peter Checkland , who says about soft systems thinking : |
| 5 | In fact , as I have developed this chapter , I realise that within the definition I am using they are exactly the same thing . |
| 6 | If you have ever stood on a sheep farmer 's hillside , as I have done many times in the Western Highlands of Scotland , and listened to the sheep calling to ( communicating with ) each other , you will immediately notice how their intonations are all different , as indeed are their faces . |
| 7 | ‘ You are an artist , as I have said many times . |
| 8 | This is true for simple problems but , as I have said many times before , as soon as the problems become more complicated our mathematical knowledge turns out to be greatly deficient . |
| 9 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have been careful not to lay down specific periods for the bids to come in , because , as I have said many times , it may take longer for some management-employee buy-outs to be lodged than others . |
| 10 | I think basically , if you 've got good colour sense you 're home and dry as I have said many times , it does n't matter how you put it together , but if the colours are superb , it 's going to look good . |
| 11 | As I have said some names had physical attributes and these can be identified in such names as Lofty , Longsett , Fatty , Buster , Tich , Snowy , Darkie etc . |
| 12 | I vowed then , as I have vowed many times before and since , that I would never again make myself so vulnerable to the team , that I would get them off my back and out of my life if it was the last thing I did . |
| 13 | Warren responded yesterday by saying : ‘ As soon as I have received official notice from Eastwood we will do what is necessary to get the fight on . |
| 14 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |
| 15 | So librarians are surprised , and a little hurt , when it is still suggested ( as I have heard educational technologists and others suggest at conferences ) that they are shy , retiring administrators , concerned more with order than with use . |
| 16 | My personal preference is for Michelin as I have had many years and miles of trouble free use from them . |
| 17 | I 'm very sorry that as soon as I have finished this welcome this morning that I have got to leave you , and I am very sorry that I shall not be able to return this evening for your dinner which I would originally look forward very much to but I trust that you will enjoy the company of the Chairman of our Environmental Services Committee , Councillor Robin Draga , who is attending on my behalf . |
| 18 | At times , as I have researched this book , it has occurred to me that the second-hand book world is the only place left in England where knowledge of anything but the latest semi-literate fads still exists . |
| 19 | I can assure you we will keep our side of the bargain … just as soon as you have completed this assignment . |
| 20 | A As you have had such success in breeding your fish , and raising the fry to a reasonable size , you can not be judged to be doing anything wrong . |
| 21 | Another , which consists of failed Social Democrats who now wish to clone the Labour Party in David Owen 's image , have to be treated as we have treated other entryists . |
| 22 | The next Bishop of Rochester to reside here at Halling was Laurence but this is not to say that the palace was vacant during these intervening years for as we have noticed earlier monks of Rochester lived here for periods with possibly a steward to maintain the household . |
| 23 | We will continue to reduce tax burdens on business , as we have done this year for the motor industry , whenever it is possible to do so . |
| 24 | We can not explain our hostility to internal compromise by appeal to principles of either fairness or justice as we have defined those virtues . |
| 25 | One , as we have noted several times in this chapter , is the availability of spatial data in computer-readable format . |
| 26 | Indeed as we have seen economic equality in society could only be achieved under two kinds of circumstances — one through the use of coercion in which case it is incompatible with freedom and the other in a situation in which people do not respond or even care about material rewards . |
| 27 | The bourgeoisie of the third quarter of the nineteenth century was overwhelmingly ‘ liberal ’ , not necessarily in a party sense ( though as we have seen Liberal parties were prevalent ) , as in an ideological sense . |
| 28 | As we have seen serial monogamy could put the claims of unquestionably legitimate princes at risk . |
| 29 | In Ireland the personal accountability of a , TD has as we have seen unfortunate consequences : it puts a premium on mere popularity and enfeebles the Dail . |
| 30 | As we have said many times in this section , ‘ wholesale ’ deals are often done on extremely small commissions or to profit from extremely small interest rate differentials . |