Example sentences of "[noun sg] as having [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We may think of consciousness as having two components : sensation and perception on the one hand and willing or agency on the other ; or input and output .
2 If a left ear advantage , per se , were considered indicative of right-sided speech then up to this proportion of right handers would be classified on such a test as having right hemisphere speech .
3 For my purposes here it is convenient to regard Barthes 's work as having two phases ; the first in which he is concerned with semiology , the second in which he is concerned with discourse .
4 Taylor Walker managing director David Longbottom said : ‘ Unlike our European counterparts , in the UK we do not perceive bar work as having professional status .
5 In his book , MODELS OF REVELATION , Avery Dulles described symbolism as having four properties .
6 The family was not recognised by the common law as having any rights in the land …
7 One might offer the following reason why one could regard apine dance as having communicative significance lacking in the case of the bruise ; that the dance is a somehow ‘ arbitrary ’ or ‘ rule-governed ’ causal product of the sighting of food .
8 Conversely , indigenous politicians , who do not make explicit reference to the individual actor as having multiple points of view , may nevertheless in practice make considerable use of those multiple points of view that are implicit in the existence of different political factions .
9 So we 're going to do this exercise within this room and we 'll need to rearrange the tables , so I suggest that each group as having one table or two tables , put it in a square to work around .
10 There was one vital breakthrough for the nationalist consciousness , though there still remains some doubt as to how deep this was for the Fianna Fáil party : all the parties committed themselves to the recognition of the protestant — loyalist group as having legitimate aspirations and affirmed the need for the recognition of ‘ two sets of legitimate rights ’ coexisting in the island as a whole : ‘ Constitutional nationalists are determined to secure justice for all traditions …
11 Certainly he did not regard large-scale state intervention as having any effect except in the very long term , since the causal conditions are located ultimately in cultural attitudes , not in the factors on which state intervention operates .
12 Members of just such an organisation , the European Communities , saw the Article as having special application to them .
13 To designate the support of the notion " beautiful " one must make the adjective incident to another word , normally a substantive , as in a beautiful painting , because the notion of " beautiful " itself can be said of anything that strikes the speaker as having this quality : a beautiful sunset , a beautiful house , a beautiful stallion , a beautiful thought , etc .
14 If on the contrary , the mind thinks disturbing thoughts , like thinking of another man as having more riches or land , then feelings of envy , resentment and disappointment spread through the mind making the whole body cold and unhappy .
15 The first principle holds that in stable communication , it is conventional to regard the same word as having consistent meaning from one occasion of use to another .
16 However , unlike the pupils at school A they saw the organization of the school as having little influence on their educational opportunities , rather they saw the attitudes of the teachers as being paramount , concluding that the prevailing attitudes held by certain teachers would undermine the organization of any school .
17 However , no occasion has yet arisen on which the courts have had an opportunity to demonstrate the Convention as having practical effect in this aspect .
18 Various statistical sources giving figures for the number of receivers show the country as having 120,000 sets .
19 The clearer the disclosure and the description given of the effect of the loss of protections , the more likely it is that SFA would regard the customer as having sufficient understanding to qualify ; and ( 3 ) The customer must normally give consent in writing after getting a proper opportunity to consider the warning .
20 We may think of the evaluation as having four foci :
21 It is , however , wrong to think of the Prime Minister as having absolute power .
22 As antimalarial drugs were desperately needed during the war , it is startling to realize that chloroquine was first synthesized several years before the war and recognized at that time as having antimalarial activity .
23 Contrasting views , based on different areas , portray the working class as having greater potential for radical action .
24 They actually tried to have a structure for the organisation that had doctors , nurses , alternative healers and patients with parity at the organisational level , but they kept the front up that it was run by doctors , because that way they would be acknowledged within the discourses of medicine as having equal power to argue .
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