Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our leader was soon grunting in a semi layback posture , and as I had the appropriate page open , I could not resist reading out loud : ‘ … |
| 2 | When I visit a city , I visit the older part of town first , as I have the greatest chance of finding good material there . |
| 3 | When I visit a city , I visit the older part of town first , as I have the greatest chance of finding good material there . |
| 4 | The practical upshot is that , as long as you have the right translator , the Virtual Processor code will run without modification on any chip . |
| 5 | The practical upshot is that , as long as you have the right translator , the Virtual Processor code will run without modification on any chip . |
| 6 | Now , as soon as you have the five answers , and do remember that if you er , did n't hear any of the other ones , they will be repeated next week , so you 'll have a chance to write all the five answers down . |
| 7 | Now as soon as you have the five answers , and if you have n't heard the other four questions , then there will be a chance , as I said , to hear them again next week , when you 've got the five answers , I 'd like you to send me them on a Christmas card please , this is very , very important send them on a Christmas card please , to the following address . |
| 8 | In London you are so free to do what you want ; you can work where you want , do the sort of work you want , ( as long as you have the sufficient G.C.S.E. 's at the age of sixteen , the ‘ A ’ levels at the age of eighteen , and degrees , or diplomas etc . ) . |
| 9 | We had also managed to scrounge plenty of drink and , as we had the whole theatre to ourselves , we played endless games of paper chase and treasure hunt in and out of the stalls and the boxes and the circle . |
| 10 | As property prices in London were moving upwards , Eva 's shrewd plan was to decorate the flat as we had the last house , sell at a profit , and move on . |
| 11 | And ordinary soldiers , writing to relatives from the Front in April 1940 , spoke naïvely of their belief that ‘ as long as we have the front soldier Adolf Hitler , there will be only loyalty , bravery , and justice for his people ’ , and that ‘ the most beautiful day in the life of our Führer has still to come ’ , the day on which ‘ all peoples have recovered their freedom , peace , and equality ’ . |
| 12 | worried about them being so far as they 've the only child , and talked them into come down and live with us , so then I applied and got a move to just after it was built , which was a four bedroom house . |
| 13 | An STD clinic or department of genito-urinary medicine is the best place to have the test done , as they have the best safeguards for protecting your confidentiality . |
| 14 | It implies , of course , that as long as they have the right kind of causal relations , other machines , apart from brains , can possess mentality ; and it also implies that the study of artificial intelligence and computational modelling is the royal road to understanding mentality . |
| 15 | The standards today give preference to a rich red with white lineback , tail and underline , though yellow dun , plum and red-eared white ( with or without red , dun or plum on their sides ) are acceptable as long as they have the white finching . |
| 16 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 17 | The voice held the same polite incredulity as it had the first time . |
| 18 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 19 | This was not true , but in a largely illiterate society the snowball effect of malicious rumours worried the Bolsheviks , as it had the Tsarist officials before them . |
| 20 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 21 | If October were to bring its usual weather , as indicated by the records , and as it had the previous year on the Somme , conditions would be almost beyond endurance and attack impossible . |
| 22 | He had spoken the compliment as though he really meant it , just as he had the first time he 'd said it . |
| 23 | There he was , Prince Nicolo Sabatini , standing at the rear of the showroom , completely alone , his arms folded over his chest , watching her exactly as he had the first time she 'd set eyes on him , with such a fierce blend of desire and anger that her heart leaped into her throat . |
| 24 | He pushed away from the table as he had the previous night when he had lost his temper . |
| 25 | But Massingham had learned to discipline some of his prejudices since then , as he had the notorious Massingham temper . |
| 26 | For example , if a person supplies a computer in kit form which , when assembled , infringes a patent , then the supplier of the computer kit infringes the patent even if he is just a middle-man as long as he has the requisite knowledge . |