Example sentences of "[noun sg] as having [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may record its disagreement but ultimately accept the majority 's support of the development ; it may refuse to meet its financial obligations until the organisation ceases the action in question , although this may itself be contrary to the treaty ; it may regard the action as having no legal effect ; or it may withdraw from the organisation . |
| 2 | Bush characterized the action as having no military advantage for the Iraqis and as providing further evidence of Saddam Hussein 's ability to " amaze " and " outrage " international opinion . |
| 3 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 4 | Only special notice from you to those involved that your agent 's authority has ended will prevent you being liable once you have held out an agent as having the right to legally commit you to certain agreements . |
| 5 | Sometimes the switch contacts happen to bounce an even number of times , say 2 or 4 , and this achieves the same result as having no bounce at all ! |
| 6 | However , they are difficult to defend in the context of aid when cultural values are different in donor countries and recipient countries , and when public opinion in the donor countries perceives aid as having a moral justification . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most unusual feature of the diagram was that it represented the figure as having a twin backbone . |
| 8 | Such inducements can be caught by British law as having a clearly defined ‘ tendency to deprave and corrupt ’ . |
| 9 | To take a causal circumstance as having no redundancy is obviously to exclude things wholly irrelevant to the effect . |
| 10 | Homer sees The Committee as having a tremendous chance in the National if he stays out of trouble . |
| 11 | At the end of the year the Bank received the prime accolade as having the Best Corporate Arts Programme in Great Britain . |
| 12 | In such circumstances , one or more persons may be appointed to sue or be sued in a representative capacity as having a common interest with all other persons ( Ord 5 , r 5(1) ) . |
| 13 | It also seemed obvious that the universe had a unique history , yet since the discovery of quantum mechanics , we have had to consider the universe as having every possible history . |
| 14 | The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia . |
| 15 | Greece was criticized at the conference as having the worst record among participating countries . |
| 16 | If one person performed all these tasks then they were defined by the Tavistock group as having a ‘ composite work role ’ . |
| 17 | First , it treats all members of a social group as having the same set of possible actions . |
| 18 | Perhaps , however , we must think of the postman as having a seemingly well founded belief that he is delivering letters to real people . |
| 19 | The right hon. Gentleman can hardly refer to such a body as having the kind of authority with which he seeks to imbue it when it disagreed on a number of matters and failed to address any of the ones that really matter . |
| 20 | At the most general level , therefore , it is convenient to think of the speech community as having a ‘ shape ’ and of language in the community as being capable of displaying patterns , much as we might think of these other dynamic phenomena as displaying shapes and patterns . |
| 21 | At birth , Piaget sees the infant as having no a priori knowledge of her environment or of the way in which she can act upon it . |
| 22 | Dealing with guilt for past behaviour by making direct amends to those who have been harmed , dealing with shame by accepting one 's self as having an illness and therefore worthy of self-forgiveness , and dealing with damaged relationships by being honest , open-minded and willing , all help to reestablish the general sense of well-being that is the hallmark of someone in recovery . |
| 23 | However , where there is no prima facie possibility of a defined person 's benefiting , the Revenue will not treat the settlor as having an ‘ interest' , unless the terms of the settlement and the circumstances of the case indicate an intention to benefit a person who is likely to become a defined person in the future , for example if there was a settlement in favour of the settlor 's fiance or child . |
| 24 | Some parts of this common law have long fallen into disuse as having no contemporary relevance . |
| 25 | Milic sees this habit as having a role in Swift 's persuasive rhetoric : as helping to create an impression of consummate logical clarity . |
| 26 | Later he would see Hugo 's Quasimodo as having a direct bearing on his as yet unformed philosophy of ugliness , and he remembered a saying : ‘ In my soul I am beautiful . ’ |
| 27 | Being part of the Garrowby estate , owned by the Earl of Halifax , it is rather unusual in this day and age as having no privately owned houses or farms , other than the old rectory which was sold several years ago when the parish became part of a joint ministry . |
| 28 | The meaning of the to infinitive is thus in fact a combination of two potentials : the potential meaning of the bare infinitive , which gives the speaker the possibility of representing the realization of any action as unfolding from its beginning through to its end and any state as having a fully actualized lexical content ; and the potential significate of to , which affords the speaker the possibility of representing any movement in time from a before-position to an after-position ( corresponding here to the beginning of the infinitive event ) . |
| 29 | You analyse a poem as having an especially regular rhyme scheme ; you also find that the poem makes you feel cheerful . |
| 30 | The other interpretation would see the emergence of fairness as having a broader implication . |