Example sentences of "has [verb] as a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like copyright , patent law has a long history and has developed as a means of protecting innovation which has a benefit to innovator and public alike . |
| 2 | Though deregulation is a difficult concept to define , the reshaping process which has developed as a result of it is readily apparent . |
| 3 | Over time , excise duty revenue from alcoholic drinks has fallen as a share of total indirect taxes excise duties plus VAT — from 13.4% of the total in 1980/81 to only 8.6% in 1991/92 . |
| 4 | However , public expenditure has fallen as a proportion of GDP . |
| 5 | over , over the century , er , although as a proportion , agricultural trade has fallen as a proportion of total trade , right , and that reflects a number of influences . |
| 6 | Adjusted to take account of interest paid — which has fallen as a result of significantly reduced borrowings — net investment income in sterling terms increased from $215.1m to $238.8m — a growth rate in original currencies of 9.1% . |
| 7 | The power plant could help dispose of the offal surplus which has gathered as a result of the BSE scare , which has led to a ban on the rendering of brains , spinal cords , spleens and tonsils into pet food or animal feed . |
| 8 | Up to now all the wires have been stationary , and the magnetic field has varied as a function of time . |
| 9 | This is true in that consumer demand has collapsed as a result of the credit squeeze , the bursting of the property bubble and rising unemployment . |
| 10 | A tribe is a family which has grown as a result of births . |
| 11 | More than any other single film , Brief Encounter has operated as a barometer of the prevailing assumptions in British film culture . |
| 12 | The fact that one can always see what one has said as a string of words , which might be interpreted in this way or that , does not entail that whenever one says something there is an accompanying interpretation going through one 's head . |
| 13 | The respect once given to older people for their knowledge and experience has suffered as a result of several factors : the decline of custom , the acceleration of change and the loss of oral traditions . |
| 14 | Chairman Mark Sweeney said : ‘ I would like to apologise personally to anyone who has suffered as a result of the actions of any of our sales people . ’ |
| 15 | In the end he realizes that the only way truly to understand his father is to become him ; he presents the evidence he has collected as a reconstruction of his father 's actions , thought processes , and emotions . |
| 16 | I hope that the panel will feel that it has had as a result of the position statements before it , and the discussions over the last few days , sufficient information to decide whether to exclude certain sectors . |
| 17 | In the past too much essential curriculum and materials development has occurred as a result of goodwill rather than policy and planning . |
| 18 | Mr Watt , who is a specialist in insolvency , investigations and audit work , was an assessor to the Bingham Inquiry and has acted as a Department of Trade and Industry inspector on a number of investigations , including those into Alexander Howden and Guinness . |
| 19 | If it has died as a result of dog fighting then immediate action will be taken to stamp this odious business out straight away . ’ |
| 20 | British Rail 's choice of King 's Cross as the second London terminal in addition to Waterloo has raised a storm of protest not only from Camden Council but also from Newham which has emerged as a kind of British Amiens in its campaign to site the terminal at Stratford . |
| 21 | While age has emerged as a predictor of the current linguistic achievement in BSL , it need not always be the case if BSL teachers are able to learn from the second language literature . |
| 22 | I shall confine myself to mentioning that under the present Government NHS spending has increased as a proportion of gross domestic product . |
| 23 | Incarceration has increased as a form of punishment . |
| 24 | The criminal penalties , however , are draconian : up to twenty years imprisonment and up to $25,000 fine for each count ; provision is also made for pre-trial freezing of assets and post-trial forfeiture of any interest the defendant has gained as a result of his violation . |
| 25 | He was the warden of the village 's education centre for nine years , has served as a member of the Urdd Council and was the movement 's vice-president for three years . |
| 26 | Expenditure on education has diminished as a proportion of public expenditure , falling from 20 per cent in 1979 to 13.7 per cent in 1984 , then rising to 17.8 per cent in 1988 . |
| 27 | There are eight other lines of action which the Plans Project has identified as a means of recovering ground or of preventing mistakes from being compounded . |
| 28 | Often what has gone wrong has happened as a result of lack of communication . |
| 29 | The working class has declined as a percentage of the population . |
| 30 | On the contrary , the economic crisis in the rich countries has led , not surprisingly , to a still greater preoccupation with national economic issues and national development , one aspect of this situation being that aid to the developing countries by the Western nations who are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) has declined as a percentage of their gross national product , while the various protectionist measures which they have taken in recent years have had an adverse effect upon the trade of the developing countries . |