Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some boroughs — including the two named — are notoriously bad at collecting rents , and London arrears have soared already as the tighter benefit rules have taken effect . |
| 2 | And Joanna 's bones have strengthened naturally as she has grown older . |
| 3 | Ever since the Portuguese annexed Goa in 1510 , the Europeans have had their eyes on or have in some ways dominated Asia and the Pacific ; Western ideas have triumphed here as everywhere else in the world . |
| 4 | You know I 've had it happen the lights have changed just as I 've been crossing them so I 've gone over and three cars immediately behind me have followed me . |
| 5 | The skies had darkened ominously as she set out on her journey to the coast , but she was not unduly concerned about the dismal weather . |
| 6 | Parents of young users have watched helplessly as their children , their bodies overheating uncontrollably , suffer a painful and harrowing shocking death . |
| 7 | An unquizzical synthesis of the fabliaux " explicit morals produces at best an alternative moral scheme to that which was conventional in the Christian Middle Ages — and is still , largely , conventional today ; a scheme that various critics have described either as the morality of efficacy , the liberation of the instinct , a morality of pleasure , hedonistic materialism , or pragmatic warnings of the need to avoid deception and the promise or threat of retributive justice . |
| 8 | It is not only the Conservative party that has asked for such an explanation ; Labour supporters and sympathisers have done so as well . |
| 9 | The demand for courses had declined dramatically as more facilities became available in Third World countries . |
| 10 | These handicaps have increased steadily as the EC becomes more supranational . |
| 11 | When we turn to trade in services it is no surprise to find that the UK 's net income from financial services has grown dramatically as the City 's banking and financial business has grown . |
| 12 | Dismissive of the ‘ corridor opportunites ’ , he fails to mention that , so far , the Foreign Secretaries of the UK and Argentina have had their first meeting since the 1982 Falklands War , that the Israeli and Soviet Foreign Ministers have got together as has the US Secretary of State with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts , or that the two German Foreign Ministers have held extensive talks on the current crisis — all with apparently good results : quite useful when several of these countries have no diplomatic relations with each other . |
| 13 | Their exports of auto components have risen sharply as VW , Ford and other majors have altered their supply policies . |
| 14 | I understand er good weather in Wales has meant red kites have done well as well ? |
| 15 | Roberts ( 4.5 ) surveys the literature on youth , pointing out that the traditional focus on how youth cultures have functioned so as to reconcile young people to adult roles in employment and family life have lost a crucial element — the expectation that young people ( especially those with only basic education ) would have jobs available . |
| 16 | Could the events have occurred just as they are described ? |
| 17 | The doors had opened wide as he reached them . |