Example sentences of "had as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television has had as profound an effect on contemporary sport as the railway or the popular press had on Victorian sport . |
| 2 | Such enthusiasm may have had as much to do with the excited nationalism of wartime , as any substantial appreciation of these films ' merits , and it should not be supposed that British filmmakers had universally gone from being dull and unimaginative to become masters of the cinematic art . |
| 3 | No pope in history has ever had as much power over the lives of his flock as some of these self-styled leaders in the Western fellowships . |
| 4 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 5 | Without ever themselves having had as much as a picture postcard to sell , they feel entitled to criticise both the dead peer and his widow for having disposed of some of the contents of Althorp . |
| 6 | He must have had as fine a view of the burgeoning industry of Glasgow , as he had of the stars when he peered up at the heavens from the University Observatory at Dowanhill . |
| 7 | ‘ Man , Ranald , we 've not had as good a season in years ! |
| 8 | Indeed , I recall my impression at the time was of having stepped into a prison cell , but then this might have had as much to do with the pale early light as with the size of the room or the bareness of its walls . |
| 9 | There are very few countries and groups of people which have had as devoted and heartfelt connection to a land as have the Jews to the land of Israel . |
| 10 | I 've had as much pleasure raising you as I did screwing your clapped-out tart of a mother . |
| 11 | Few commando guerrillas , therefore , can claim to have had as great an influence over their main forces ' campaign as these Independent Companies , for in the Allied advances of 1943 many garrisons could be by-passed and the Japanese on Timor did not quit the island until a month after the armistice in 1945 . |
| 12 | Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , as we know from his rages at players who 've had as much as a sniff of the barmaid 's apron , is the man who put the temper in temperance . |
| 13 | It does n't seem to have had as bad an effect on a lot of people as it might appear — they have n't immediately turned round and gone back to the very worst anti-gay feeling . |
| 14 | The Club started some time ago and has had as many as thirty members in the past but now numbers have dwindled to fifteen . |
| 15 | If only they 'd had as much sex as Pulp , this childish dry wank might have half a hint of the lascivious , mobile intercourse it so pathetically promises . |
| 16 | Only time will tell whether his work will have had as long-lasting an impact as that of Andre Malraux , de Gaulle 's Minister of Culture between 1959 and 1969 . |
| 17 | The decline is not directly attributable to the structure of trade : in broad terms , at least , Britain has had as large a share in the growth sectors of world trade as her competitors [ Batchelor et al. , 1980 ; Prest and Coppock , various edns ] . |
| 18 | And we , we normally have members go , we 've had as many as five one year , or was it six , erm , not always that many I think , was it three of you went last year , I think it was three was n't it ? |
| 19 | The managers , in each area , have seldom had as much experience as their competitors . |
| 20 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |
| 21 | William Beckford , Walpole 's successor as both Gothic novelist and builder , carried his imaginings too far to have had as much effect on either fact or fiction . |
| 22 | Among the select coterie of French couturiers , no one has had as consistent an influence on menswear around the world as Christian Dior . |
| 23 | And er er it varied from one stroke on one hand for a certain thing or one on each hand , up to I 've had as many as six strokes of the strap . |
| 24 | Their increased involvement in the electoral process has had as much or greater impact upon the mobilization of some small sections of people as has the more generalized appeal of the parties . |
| 25 | However , if Venus has always had as little water as it seems to have today then it may never have been able to achieve such high surface temperatures . |
| 26 | I expect you have had as many experiences as that flower over there ! ’ |
| 27 | I mean I , I , I , I 've had as many as a thousand marbles in a bag . |
| 28 | Many people have become paupers after their association with her but the pleasure of her company can only be had as long as one is in possession of riches to bestow on her . ’ |
| 29 | The test of that is , that the local people treat the experiences they claim to have had as perfectly acceptable — almost take them for granted . |
| 30 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |