Example sentences of "as have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Adultery therefore should be seen as having a symbolic quality , amounting to sexual conduct outrageous to the other . |
| 32 | A greatly-respected professional musician was diagnosed as having a poor bump of tune ; a man accorded a large bump of benevolence turned out to be a well known ( and violent ) criminal . |
| 33 | Those spending any time in a residential home were less often described as having a poor quality of life if the respondent was a staff member than if he or she was a relative : 10 per cent compared with 42 per cent . |
| 34 | Parents often complain that they can only get help or support when they have identified themselves as having a specific problem , and it is not unusual for some families to have several different workers trying to offer support and advice on specific problems which , in reality , are part of a whole situation . |
| 35 | This is true of all conduct interpreted as having a moral relevance , as being a sign of virtue or vice . |
| 36 | All these people now regard themselves as having a moral claim to land inside Israel — which is one reason , of course , why the PLO was for so long loath to consider a Palestinian nation outside the boundaries of the Jewish state . |
| 37 | However , they are difficult to defend in the context of aid when cultural values are different in donor countries and recipient countries , and when public opinion in the donor countries perceives aid as having a moral justification . |
| 38 | This is quite understandable if the non-specified version of the infinitive 's support corresponds to a " generalized person " : since this person is the virtual sum of all persons ( first , second or third ) , if to snow is not explicitly referred to it , the infinitive is felt as having a possible reference to " me " or " you " , which corresponds exactly to the impression produced by the sentence above and explains why it does not make sense . |
| 39 | The team was regarded by many , including James Michener , as having a negative impact : ‘ I strongly suspect that the Harlem Globetrotters did more damage racially than they did good , because they deepened the stereotype of ‘ the loveable , irresponsible Negro ’ ’ ( 1976 , p.145 ) . |
| 40 | The market for control may be seen from this perspective , therefore , as having a negative side-effect in so far as it gives shareholders an opportunity to make unfair gains at the employees ' expense . |
| 41 | In the case of Gagnon and Simon and those influenced by them ( such as Kenneth Plummer ) , the theoretical framework derives from Meadean social psychology , which sees the individual as having a developing personality which is created in an interaction with others ; and from labelling theories of deviance , which concentrate on the public processes of stigmatisation . |
| 42 | The engine was recorded as having a total time of 302.30 hours at the time of the accident . |
| 43 | One of the leading dancers with the Ballet Club , she is described by Luyt as having a brilliant technique , and he says she ‘ was compact and a dream to do double-work with , and was fearless in trying out death-defying lifts ’ . |
| 44 | This placement followed the breakup of his parents ' marriage which was acknowledged by his mother , but not his father , as having a serious effect upon Tom 's behaviour . |
| 45 | Although diagnosed as having a weak heart in 1948 , he survived his first wife and married again at the age of 85 . |
| 46 | Understandably there is reluctance within the authorities to diagnose a child under 5 as having a mental handicap , and there is a move to relax the criteria to include children with developmental delay amongst those eligible for funding . |
| 47 | Relationships between professionals and people labelled as having a mental handicap have their origins in past and present social structures and attitudes . |
| 48 | Witness the image of the watch : it remained easy to think of the system as having a grand purpose built into it . |
| 49 | Almost all British analyses use a unit similar or identical to what I call a tone-unit , and many writers see this unit as having a crucial role in linking intonation to higher-level grammatical units . |
| 50 | Yet one in every 200 people are diagnosed as having a schizophrenic illness at some point in their lives . |
| 51 | This model sees local authorities as having a subordinate relationship to central government with little or no discretion in the task of implementing national policies . |
| 52 | It is a collection of individuals sharing some common purpose under a common leader , and seeing themselves as having a common identity . |
| 53 | In such circumstances , one or more persons may be appointed to sue or be sued in a representative capacity as having a common interest with all other persons ( Ord 5 , r 5(1) ) . |
| 54 | The male was described as having a white star on his head . |
| 55 | An SBU was taken to be any subsidiary business interest of the group which could be said to be largely separable and could be treated as having a commercial life of its own . |
| 56 | It supplies stores like Harrods and Selfridges as well as having a big export market . |
| 57 | Thus every individual needs to be regarded as having a unique set of problems , some of which may have encouraged him or her to drink too much , and some of which may be the outcome of the drinking , rather than being thought of as an ‘ alcoholic ’ or an ‘ addict ’ . |
| 58 | Social workers have been spotlighted as having a difficult job in dealing with young offenders and those who require counselling after such events . |
| 59 | But as well as having a novel structure , the theory has an explanatory power quite unlike that of classical economics : for while the latter attempted to explain economic systems as a response to individual needs , Marx accounted for a much wider range of social phenomena in terms of the part they played in a totality . |
| 60 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |