Example sentences of "as [pron] have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as someone has short sight , penicillin allergy or diabetes never recovers from these conditions but can nonetheless do or not do various things that diminish their effects or progress , similarly , sufferers from addictive disease even though they may no longer use the substance or behaviour of addiction . |
| 2 | Geraldine read us a short story and , as I had each contraction , I 'd kneel over a bean bag . |
| 3 | At first I thought it was piles , as I had terrible itching round my anus . |
| 4 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 5 | And as I had this urge to correct manuscripts as I went along , and could n't read his handwriting , and did n't know the first thing about Roman Britain , you can imagine he felt obliged to educate me . |
| 6 | They are not , as I had some apprehension , gold striped , or jewelled , ( the pipes , I mean ) . |
| 7 | A note from Bartram in 1745 seems to imply a slight difference of opinion as his account of some American pines had been questioned : ‘ But as I have great opinion of Miller 's learning and judgement , I am engaged in duty and friendship to inform him the best I can . ’ |
| 8 | And he all but confirmed this was his last match , saying : ‘ I basically feel the same way as I have all year , and although I am not going to announce my retirement , I guess that is it . |
| 9 | ‘ I putted as well as I have all year . ’ |
| 10 | He was sympathetic , " I do not intend " , he declared , " so far as I have any power , to allow the increase of Chinese seamen in the United Kingdom ports to be continued " . |
| 11 | Then you 'd quarter it , quarter it off , you see , then carry it down to the shop so as you had some beef in the shop on show in four quarters . |
| 12 | However , as you have some discretion in these matters , Mr. Speaker , and while we wait for the Scottish electorate to remove the remainder of the Scottish Conservative party from this House , would it not be appropriate for you to give priority to Scottish Members at Scottish Question Time ? |
| 13 | ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’ |
| 14 | You can withdraw up to £50 a day as long as you have enough money in your account . |
| 15 | It was a pity , that ; he would have liked to have heard her groan again , perhaps even to cry out as she had that night when The Man had played his games with her . |
| 16 | When she asked her opinion of a radio programme , Mrs O replied that , as she had total hearing loss , she did n't hear the programme . |
| 17 | Since the advent of Felicity , she had gone up to sleep in the attic — an arrangement she preferred , as she had absolute privacy up there , and as luck would have it , there was an electric fire , so that she could use it as a study . |
| 18 | It was lucky for her that she was so busy just then , as she had little time to think during the day , and at night she was so tired that she fell asleep directly she got into bed . |
| 19 | As she had little dress sense , only a vague fear that any hat or dress she chose might be vulgar , so she had no sense of a possible style in which to decorate a house , or even a dining table , for Christmas . |
| 20 | She told him that as soon as she had some money she wanted to buy some decent clothes , the kind that she could wear to her work in the evenings . |
| 21 | She loved her baby brother , and she quite liked taking him out in his pram — but not when she had more interesting things to do , as she had this afternoon . |
| 22 | This damp and the gas fire has affected her health , as she has bronchial asthma . |
| 23 | A concentrated assessment helped us focus on teaching procedures and materials more effectively and the problems we uncovered could be tackled immediately as we had direct access to the Subject Assessor ’ . |
| 24 | Use the same posters as we had last year , but put on , cover up and put a new on , use them up . |
| 25 | If we have the same amount of cold weather this winter as we had last winter , we will more or less double the coverage of the benefit as a result of the changes that I announced earlier this year . |
| 26 | some of the taking exams as we had this year , they , they |
| 27 | In later periods of life I have deplored , as we have all reason to do , a subjugation of an opposite character , and have rejoiced over the remembrances . |
| 28 | ‘ I believe we need to have jails in every county as we have inadequate space in our prisons . |
| 29 | The study found , as we have implied for the UK , that local economic conditions were not to blame , as they had little impact on plant closures . |
| 30 | On the left , the attitude of Moscow and the Third International , in so far as they had any influence at all in Spain before the war , was to encourage Popular Front democracy and discourage revolution . |