Example sentences of "[noun pl] as they have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Greens were present in over 500 wards , compared with 206 wards in 1988 , and the Liberal Democrats were able to field almost as many candidates as they had done previously . |
| 2 | I felt tears come into my eyes as they had into Flora 's at dinner . |
| 3 | It does not seem to work well with some 16 bit computers as they have quite complex keyboard electronics , and rather indirect means of reading the keys . |
| 4 | When he does so , I hope that he will ensure that he legislates to ensure that Labour can not operate delaying tactics as they have in Wolverhampton . |
| 5 | France and Germany established diplomatic relations with Bosnia-Hercegovina on Nov. 12-13 on the basis of the republic 's borders as they had existed within the former Yugoslavia . |
| 6 | She had had to put her arms around his neck , but it had been hard keeping her hands from charting the planes of his shoulders as they had wanted to do . |
| 7 | I think it 's a fatal mistake to have dropped the kerbs as they have . |
| 8 | But on 30 October the regents once more affirmed the rights of the Crown : they ordered Hugh de Neville , the Chief Justice of the Forest , to cause the royal forests to be kept by the same metes and bounds as they had been in the time of King John before the war between him and his barons . |
| 9 | That removes the Government 's mask which they have worn over the past few months as they have tried to pursue the idea of cheap gas . |
| 10 | But the practical necessities of treating patients remained , so the majority of physicians continued to use as many of the available remedies as they thought necessary , relying on their personal experience , the opinions of colleagues , and the reports of such trials as they had time to study . |
| 11 | Despite their preponderance in numbers still — for probably not a great many had been slain — fleeing in all directions as they had done , horseless and with few if any senior commanders , it was all but inconceivable that they could re-form and offer any coherent opposition . |
| 12 | It also turns out that the ratio of proportions is rather cumbersome to handle when dealing with many variables at once , and no-one has yet proposed a way of decomposing it into component effects as they have with d s and with measures based on odds . |
| 13 | He scowled and once more she was forcibly reminded of his Viking heritage , the cold , hard power that had fortified the Norsemen as they had bounded from their makeshift camps intent on conquest . |
| 14 | For example , some governments would probably not have spent as much on telecommunications as they have done without the stimulus of a foreign-dominated export sector that produces hard-currency earnings , and the expectation that such facilities , however expensive , would attract even more companies . |
| 15 | For Sumner , law embodies the appearance of reality produced by social relations , so that , for example , an employment contract appears as a consensual contract between equals ( a point also made by Hunt ) , but it also embodies those appearances as they have been seen and interpreted by classes and groups who make laws . |
| 16 | They were not even allowed to take such belongings as they had — pots and stools and the like . |
| 17 | Erm I would say that in the past the loyalist paramilitaries , apart from the obvious thing which was easy going out just and killing catholics as they 've been doing recently . |
| 18 | So strict were their beliefs that they objected to the church 's Holy Days as they had been selected by men and because , to God , all days were holy and should be celebrated equally . |
| 19 | They could be expected to be as obedient to the workers as they had been to the capitalists . |
| 20 | Social workers must first diagnose the problems and then help with such practical aids as they have at their immediate disposal . |
| 21 | On that basis , we have asked the Health and Safety Executive and the Health and Safety Commission to consider what contribution they can make to the overall citizens charter initiative to ensure that companies or individuals — whichever are concerned — have the same rights with regard to those organisations as they have with regard to other government and quasi-governmental bodies . |
| 22 | From this perspective the nature of modern democratic regimes , and the setbacks and limitations which they experience , are intimately connected with the class structure and the relations between classes as they have developed both in capitalist and in what I shall call ( for the moment ) post-capitalist societies . |
| 23 | She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest . |
| 24 | ‘ And in a perverse way this is something which may be helpful because they are now beginning to appreciate more clearly the fear that has existed within the Protestant community for the past 20 years as they have been killed at random by the IRA , ’ he added . |
| 25 | Such skeletal structures as they have are called spicules or sclerites , and are tiny calcareous particles which are present in large numbers . |
| 26 | After the revolution , Romanians sat in their flats lit by a maximum of two 40-watt bulbs by order , usually wearing winter coats as they had become accustomed to years of sudden power cuts , and watched television pictures of their late rulers perusing menus to decide what to eat . |
| 27 | The London merchants of this period do not , however , represent a closely connected group of families as they had done in an earlier age : the civic upper class was constantly being renewed , either as families died out , or as successful men moved out from the city to the country . |
| 28 | This obviously made much greater demands on part-time farmers as they had to transport feed every day . |
| 29 | Such efforts as they had made had been ‘ half-hearted and not coordinated ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ It would be nice if Intel put some stakes in the ground for software developers , ’ one former i860 ISV commented , ‘ otherwise they [ Intel ] will have the same problems as they had with the i860 . ’ |