Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | Public concern over the popular cetacean has mounted as numbers have rapidly declined . |
6 | 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 . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The present case has arisen as follows . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The art history programme has taken as its theme ‘ What has art history become as a cultural practice , and how ? ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | He 'd purchased considerable tracts of land during his lifetime , and the profits that accrued from that investment had ballooned as London grew . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | For the new study , a researcher from the university 's department of psychology conducted interviews with 56 young men who the earlier research had assessed as either safe or unsafe drivers . |
21 | Every bloody boat had waved as it crossed the bar . |
22 | There was a running video of the television documentary about Sheikh , who had , at the beginning of June , gained entrance to Oxford and Cambridge and had published an article in an American scientific journal that an eminent German physicist had described as ‘ revelatory ’ . |
23 | However , both the ideas and the practice have changed as experience has accumulated , with two particular issues dominating the debate . |
24 | For example , multiplex ties of work and friendship have emerged as powerful in this respect ( see Cohen 1982 for examples and L. Milroy 1980 for further references ) . |
25 | It is a sad but true reflection of all professional life that efficient business management has become as important a factor in ensuring success as technical competence . |
26 | Third , political parties have declined as serious inputs into policy-making , either because a single party grouping has emerged as dominant over all alternatives ( as in Japan or Gaullist France ) , or because where two party groupings alternate in power , executive authority is always monopolized by a centrist bloc which spans both possible parties of government ( as in Britain or West Germany ) . |
27 | The institute has denounced as ‘ absurd ’ recent government measures to centralise all sources of aid and is calling on national and international media to urge the government to lift its ban on independent aid initiatives . |
28 | Her gaze had drifted as she spoke and seemed to rest on one of the photographs displayed nearby . |
29 | The price of property in the village had risen as people from the towns bought up cottages as second homes and young couples could no longer afford them . |
30 | James had meanwhile reached Dublin , blaming the Irish , whom one eye-witness had described as ‘ like sheep flying before the wolf ’ , for his defeat . |