Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | My poor mother has slept alone as long as I can remember . ’ |
2 | Dr Seamus McAleer , one of six consultants using the unit , explains : ‘ The number of patients being treated by chemotherapy has increased steadily as new and better drugs have become available . |
3 | Dr Seamus McAleer , one of six consultants using the unit , explains : ‘ The number of patients being treated by chemotherapy has increased steadily as new and better drugs have become available . |
4 | There who are they on about three four three four three four to call it 's er a very public figure very public you 're bound to have heard of him you 've probably seen him as well I would have thought I would have thought so as some stage picture always in the paper there as well you know nice big swanky car too . |
5 | They might as well have ended there as seventh , the place below the play-off zone . |
6 | They made a gallant array next morning as they marched off from the Burgh Muir in great companies , cavalry and infantry , banners and standards waving , heraldic surcoats colourful , armour glinting in the early morning sunlight , trumpets blowing ; but Ramsay reminded himself that Mar 's army had looked fully as fine and had marched only to disaster . |
7 | So , as I say , the Muse of History laughed when Britain , which had risen almost as one man to take the Falklands from the Argentine , then quite logically watched , passive and embarrassed , while the United States occupied the independent sovereign state of Grenada . |
8 | I 'd like to see what we 've got there as long as we 're in the neighbourhood . ’ |
9 | There , for 20 years , she had watched helplessly as that country 's wildlife was systematically hunted to extinction . |
10 | And he walked away from the manor as though he had arrived there as empty-handed , half-naked and alone as when he left . |
11 | Boris Gidaspov , the Leningrad city and oblast first secretary who had emerged recently as one of the most prominent party conservatives , said that " complete disorganization of the executive mechanism " was responsible for growing destabilization in the country . |
12 | Of Callejas 's new Cabinet , also sworn in on Jan. 27 , Benjamin Villanueva Tábora was Economy and Commerce Minister in 1977-79 and Finance Minister in 1981 ; Ramón Medina Luna had been a Deputy Economy Minister ; Manlio Martínez had served on a previous occasion as Planning Minister ; Col. Francisco Zepeda Andino had served as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force ; and Rodolfo Rosales Abella of the opposition PLH had served briefly as Labour Minister in the last few months of the presidency of José Simeon Azcona . |
13 | The demand for courses had declined dramatically as more facilities became available in Third World countries . |
14 | You have behaved exactly as any intelligent human being should behave . |
15 | However , the Arabs in and around Israel also claim the country because they have lived there as long as the Jews . |