Example sentences of "have [vb pp] as [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Few American businessmen believe that their economy has fared as well as Germany 's , but it has .
2 Oh this has got as well .
3 Manager McGrath has watched as both Cavan and Fermanagh have been caught napping in the championship so far and does not want a similar fate to befall his side .
4 Columbia , now owned by Japan 's Sony , has become as well known for the high spending of its management team , Peter Guber and Jon Peters , as its films ; Mr Peters has now taken a back seat .
5 In the meantime , it is clear that many judges consider that the Lord Chancellor 's Department has ceased to act as an intermediary or ‘ hinge ’ between themselves and the executive Government and has become as much a part of the governmental machinery as any other Department of State .
6 It 's a frequent irritation however that British television companies are n't obliged to give the credit that is so manifestly due , especially since , in the last few years , the quality and range of recorded music for dramas and documentaries has become as almost diverse as that used in European cinema over the last few decades .
7 The interaction between effective but sensitive community self-surveillance and police surveillance has emerged as perhaps the most favoured approach .
8 As a result of industrialisation land has been replaced by capital as the most important means of production and in the process , real wages or , expressed differently the value of human capital , has increased as well .
9 ‘ Should the thief read this and comprehend the distress he has caused as well as the futility of his action , if he organises the return of our parts , perhaps through a third party , then we will take no further action . ’
10 But even though the players on the 1990 tour were paid a basic £83,000 over two years , that has gone as well .
11 But if it is the case , simply and conclusively , that music ‘ must intervene actively in consciousness through its own forms and not take instructions from … the consciousness of the user ’ ( quoted in Held 1980 : 83 ) , the baby has gone as well as the bath water and utopian critique begins to look suspiciously like spiritual determinism , autonomy like repression .
12 At all events SLA research , though of considerable theoretical and descriptive interest , has yielded as yet nothing definitive upon which one might confidently model an approach to formal teaching which replicates the process of natural learning ( see Chapter 2 ) .
13 You know , your hair li , I suppose this has dried as well
14 For any political party that makes any pretence of seeking the government of this country to want to remove from the courts the sanction that my hon. Friend has described as so essential is utterly irresponsible .
15 Their diet has changed as well .
16 The ratio between decision making/taking and repair timings has changed as well .
17 Simon Peter , of course , is the best known and probably the most popular of Jesus 's original entourage — the one whom tradition has established as virtually synonymous with Christianity itself .
18 Only last week , the last time I sat in court er there was an instance of one individual who had had twelve cautions in a period of eight months er he was still a youth so his name obviously can not be divulged , erm and it 's not only the cautions , I wonder how many warnings he 'd received as well .
19 Mala looked a little tense , showing that she 'd forgotten as well .
20 When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up .
21 In the end Maggie dragooned four Australian chaps , and a Cockney girl who 'd volunteered as soon as she 'd heard help was needed .
22 They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise …
23 The cut on her brow seemed to have healed completely ; Adam 's had disappeared as well , she thought , remembering as best she could .
24 The long straight nose , thin lips and diffident , questioning expression of the eyes set rather close together would have looked as well on a girl .
25 Britain 's judo team , especially the men , may not have fared as well as expected in the Olypmics .
26 But he decided they probably had enough on their minds for the moment ; and swiftly tossing back the Glenlivet , he left them , making his way thoughtfully to the front entrance , and wondering something else : wondering whether any announcement of Kemp 's death — Kemp 's murder — would have come as too much of a surprise to one of the four people who still sat round their table in the Chapters Bar .
27 ‘ It was a very expensive clear-out and must have come as quite a shock when the penny dropped .
28 " So what would you normally have done as soon as you arrived if this had been an ordinary Thursday ?
29 Which , if she 'd thought about it , she realised she should have done as soon as she 'd seen the dog making for her — rather than idiotically go forward the way she had .
30 I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work .
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