Example sentences of "have as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party . |
| 2 | The University has as a major objective for the future the acquisition of the whole of the Radcliffe Infirmary site , if the Headington Strategy goes ahead , for use for university purposes . |
| 3 | The officials said the plan , approved by the President last week , has as a central element the use of the US military to intercept drug transactions abroad . |
| 4 | The principle of Contrast , then , has as a general consequence the elimination of synonyms . |
| 5 | Now , upmost in my mind is what John Durnin has as a pre-match meal . |
| 6 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 7 | When Drexel 's former equity head , Arthur Kirsch , let it be known last spring that Drexel 's entire American-equity department might be had as a going concern , BZW did not pause to carry out market research on the venture . |
| 8 | However , even after several years , his paces never regained the natural , easy , long-stepping flow they had had as a paddocked youngster ; and his personality could be kindly described as awkward , and certainly was n't to be trusted . |
| 9 | " All right then ? " he said , smiling again , his head a little on one side , a gesture he 'd had as a small boy . |
| 10 | Similarly , detailed knowledge of bee physiology should enable one to predict that the bees ' locating a food source will have as a causal consequence ( even if only statistically ) the subsequent pattern of wiggles and tilts in the hive . |
| 11 | The approach that I have called theoretical as opposed to practical must have as a major part of its aim not merely the passing on of facts and formulae but the inculcation of critical and speculative habit . |
| 12 | Services should have as a primary goal the alleviation of distress , by providing a programme of treatment , care and support based on the unique needs of an individual . |
| 13 | Which former prime minister 's surname does Teddy Taylor have as a middle name ? |
| 14 | This is a lovely sheet of water amongst trees , having as a powerful background the massive build-up of ridges leading up to the summit of Mam Sodhail , a major Munro 3862 feet high . |
| 15 | This instituted a partnership between central and local government with both having as a prime objective the promotion of the education service . |
| 16 | The Labour Council , elected in 1982 , had as a stated policy aim that every child whose parents so wished was entitled to a pre-school place of some sort . |
| 17 | The 1980 Green Paper , The Taxation of Husband and Wife , had as a central proposal the scrapping of the married man 's allowance to be replaced by a single person 's allowance each for husband and wife . |
| 18 | As she prepares for her gold medal exam for speech and drama next month through the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , she confesses she has cast aside ambitions she had as a ten- year-old to be an actress . |
| 19 | It is easy to assume that both workers and management in a plant have as a common objective the survival of that plant . |