Example sentences of "[pron] as have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott Gibbs , whose midfield tackling was at the very heart of the Welsh win , has always struck one as having tremendous potential , but he has before now been roundly censured for his use of the ball after a break . |
| 2 | As a result of this loss of belief in the potential for good in the future , the sufferer comes to perceive himself or herself as having few choices of action in life . |
| 3 | She was four foot ten and described herself as having sagging breasts and a low-slung bottom . |
| 4 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
| 5 | He sees it as having symbolic significance , directing world attention to Australian research , development and intellectual quality . |
| 6 | He probably sees me as having mechanical skills , like a dentist 's , which higher types must occasionally employ . |
| 7 | Yet the central thrust of what I was trying to say still strikes me as having some validity . |
| 8 | They see them as having wider connotations , which may include casting doubt on both management competence and the financial statements ' integrity . |
| 9 | It suited the more militant and ambitious New English to portray them as having Irish sympathies and having gone native . |
| 10 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 11 | While the parent company in a multinational group will necessarily be registered in a particular country and the group headquarters and a preponderance of shareholders may also be located there , in the case of some multinationals it is scarcely any longer appropriate to regard them as having national loyalties . |
| 12 | None of these major issues figures in Krashen 's scheme of things , so he presumably does not regard them as having any relation at all to the learning and teaching of languages . |
| 13 | Manpower told us that its staff are attracted to it and stay with it because of the level of such fringe benefits and the level of pay it offers and not because they are given contracts which confirm them as having dependent employee Status . |
| 14 | It was as if he saw us as having one life between us . |
| 15 | Although we were wary of being shown set-up situations , the people we met impressed us as having deep convictions , lively minds , tireless enthusiasm , incorruptible moral standards . |