Example sentences of "as [noun prp] have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the indicators chosen are suspect , as Macnicol has shown for earlier periods , in that they simply count contact with state agencies , and it is a commonplace observation that the poor are more likely to be in contact with social workers because they are poor ( Becker , 1988 ) ; young drug-takers in inner cities are more visible than wealthy socialites but drug-taking and drinking stretch across social groups ( O'Bryan , 1989 ; Plant , 1989 ) ; desertion of women by husbands and the choice to remain unmarried are not restricted to the poor ; and so on and so on . |
| 2 | Neff built up the firm 's business in the USA not by dint of one overwhelming individual personality , as Roche had done for Heidrick and Struggles , but by exemplifying the success of the Spencer Stuart method of problem-solving in management crises across a range of corporate sectors . |
| 3 | A day earlier , some of these veterans had taken part in as emotional and personal a demonstration against a president as Washington has seen for years . |
| 4 | Just as Ella had cared for the poor and the prostitute whom no one had wanted to know so Eva began to appreciate feelings she had only known before in her work in Africa . |
| 5 | The introductions were reciprocated by Hope who gathered Mary into his corner as proprietorially as Shelborne had spoken for Catherine . |
| 6 | Perhaps as Becker has suggested for the bourgeoisie ( Becker 1983 ) and Roxborough for the proletariat ( Roxborough 1984 ) , it is expecting too much to place the burden of revolution on the shoulders of any one class . |
| 7 | He did not use the existing Defence Committee , which he chaired , as Attlee had done for Korea . |