Example sentences of "have [verb] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about which year joined as alternative to years of Membership , since some may have joined as an Associate ? |
| 2 | The jamming and bridging got steeper — with the one big consolation that , strength permitting , you could pop in nuts almost at will — until he reached a ledge which elsewhere he would have regarded as a slab to be climbed , but here seemed a spacious refuge . |
| 3 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 4 | Segmentation may have developed as a way of enabling worms to increase their efficiency as burrowers in mud . |
| 5 | What other cargoes would you have to unload as a crane driver ? |
| 6 | Viewed together , they showed that by 1920 or so every single female in the United States would have to work as a switchboard operator . |
| 7 | If , however , your basic pension is your only source of income , you will not have to worry as the amount you receive is below the income tax threshold . |
| 8 | Their heavy armour-plating may have originated as a way of disposing of the salts derived from their food which accumulated in their bodies . |
| 9 | The other channel will draw on TV programmes transmitted around the world and will be financed entirely from licence fees , which will have to increase as a result . |
| 10 | The smile may have come as a surprise to connoisseurs of the pictures of him which have been issued to the world . |
| 11 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 12 | It can not have come as a surprise when , in November 1990 , the ninth biggest US accounting firm , Laventhol & Howarth , had to seek Chapter 11 protection from its creditors , with the ensuing risk of personal bankruptcy for its partners . |
| 13 | It may have come as a surprise to some , especially those nations where they have a fixed XV to which they only add as time goes by ’ . |
| 14 | For several years , we were twins , which must have come as a surprise to my mother , then slowly she fell behind as I pulled ahead , year after year . |
| 15 | Yet his father 's death should not have come as a surprise . |
| 16 | The honour may have come as a surprise to some , but England 's second city has never played second fiddle in the music business , spawning such performers as The Moody Blues , The Spencer Davis group , Black Sabbath , ELO , Duran Duran and UB40 . |
| 17 | Indeed Maiden was competitive which on the first leg may have come as a surprise to the girls . |
| 18 | No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : . |
| 19 | So maybe the lack of interest in Latin American art this week should not have come as a shock . |
| 20 | The demand for subject access may have come as a shock to the library profession but , more importantly , it raised a very fundamental issue : that is , the role of the catalogue in providing access to the library collection . |
| 21 | For the Lancashire committee the vote ( 2,046 in favour , 961 against ) will have come as a relief , and for John Brewer in particular as something of a triumph . |
| 22 | Clovis 's death must have come as a relief to Gundobad . |
| 23 | Mr Runciman said it was decided to issue a profits warning which would have come as a bombshell . |
| 24 | Whatever one may argue for the value of research findings which ensue from this technique ( and certainly the publication of Down and Out must have come as a revelation to many people in present-day Britain ) the question must be squarely faced as to whether the social researcher has a right to deceive and manipulate people for research purposes . |
| 25 | At the age of 63 , Friedman seems in better technical shape than ever , and to many of the younger members of his substantial audience , these performances must have come as a revelation . |
| 26 | IF ONE had not been reading the newspapers , listening to the radio , watching television and , above all , paying attention to the opinion polls , the election results would have come as no surprise . |
| 27 | Given the possibility for agreement , albeit confused and for different reasons , from both left and right , legislation to enforce a National Curriculum should have come as no surprise to the educational world . |
| 28 | Having come from a country afflicted by the worst drought in recent memory it should have come as no surprise that the Namibians were able to handle the Sicilian heat . |
| 29 | So it should have come as no surprise that IBM , which can no longer afford to squander money on things that only might come good , has decided to stop financing Supercomputing Systems . |
| 30 | She realised that she was much too aware of him , but this should have come as no surprise . |