Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain has historically provided substantial direct aid for civil aviation research , most recently for the development of Airbus , but that support has ended as the programme approaches commercial viability . |
| 2 | The firing has ceased as we get to our feet , the Germans stand up , their hands above their heads leaving the wounded Officer on the ground . |
| 3 | However as with so many other things in this case , the specification for that bungalow has changed as the case has developed . |
| 4 | A FRENCH director of Eurotunnel who is also a close member of president Franois Mitterrand 's ruling elite has emerged as Robert Maxwell 's partner in la Grande Arche de la Defense , a Parisian property company part-owned by Maxwell Communication Corporation . |
| 5 | Although Fitzgerald has struggled as coach , nobody now believes the problem is simply one of which coach to choose . |
| 6 | Bob Houghton has quit as assistant manager of struggling SOUTHEND after just four months at Roots Hall . |
| 7 | Public concern over the popular cetacean has mounted as numbers have rapidly declined . |
| 8 | If the husbands ask why there should be such a penalty , then I can only answer that it is because Parliament has enacted as it did . ’ |
| 9 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role of the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 10 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role or the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 11 | Dennis McNamee has resigned as secretary after three years but has accepted the post of president . |
| 12 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 13 | The present case has arisen as follows . |
| 14 | BRAVE Martin Brundle has emerged as favourite to replace Nigel Mansell in the Williams-Renault team . |
| 15 | Officials have placed adverts in the British Medical Journal on behalf of the emirate , in a move which Labour has condemned as encouraging a medical brain drain . |
| 16 | It is hard to think of many foreign governments the KGB has overthrown as , for example , the CIA did in Chile . |
| 17 | The art history programme has taken as its theme ‘ What has art history become as a cultural practice , and how ? ’ |
| 18 | It is remarkable that this sexist labelling has continued as long as it has , even though most of the research on differences attributable to sex has not supported these labels . |
| 19 | Now say your diabetic has stabilized as they have done for , a couple of years or so with their insulin injection in the morning and their breakfast and that 's how they carry on then till their tea break or lunch time they know exactly how much they 're taking . |
| 20 | Talk to Finlay Calder , the man Sole has succeeded as captain of Scotland , and you are left in no doubt about the respect Sole enjoys among his peers . |
| 21 | As long as they 've been racing hangliders in Britian Pete Harvey from Milton Keynes has flown as fast and soared as high as the very best … |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It also provided an opportunity for Devi Lal , whom Singh had dismissed as his deputy in August , to rally opposition to the government [ see pp. 37710-11 ; 37774-75 ] . |
| 24 | The two sides , however , were still separated by traditional rivalries extending over several centuries as well as by differing interpretations of Marxism , disputed borders and rivalry in their relations with other countries ; indeed it was perhaps surprising that their earlier association had lasted as long as it did . |
| 25 | He 'd purchased considerable tracts of land during his lifetime , and the profits that accrued from that investment had ballooned as London grew . |
| 26 | In R. v. Anderson ( 1987 C.A. ) the defendant had sold as new a Nissan which , though in mint unused condition , had been registered in the retailer 's name . |
| 27 | The intense blue of his eyes had dimmed as he looked up and held her gaze . |
| 28 | The Financial Times of March 1 reported that Gorbachev had appointed as his economic adviser Oleg Ozherelev , hitherto an official of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) and formerly dean of the economics faculty at Leningrad University . |
| 29 | The call had been made in good faith : a car had looked as though it might turn over , but in the event it had not . |
| 30 | By the end of the period the United States had become as dependent upon Israel in its Middle East policy as Israel was dependent upon the United States . |