Example sentences of "as [pron] has [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barry Quirke , chairman of the Institute of Statisticians , said : ‘ We would be very keen to support any initiative to set up an independent committee , so long as it has teeth . |
| 2 | The world has about 3000 times as much groundwater as it has water in rivers and lakes , and groundwater is far cleaner . |
| 3 | But America will be right to say no , as long as it has worries about its own inflation . |
| 4 | This is the famous ‘ baby boom ’ , shared more or less by all Western industrial countries ( not Eastern Europe or Japan ) , which has now produced almost as many books as it has people . |
| 5 | In the UK , it 's been ‘ back to the field ’ , as it has world wide . |
| 6 | Insofar as it has force by virtue of the potential penalty in expenses , it follows that the earlier in the action the Tender is lodged , the greater the effect which it may have . |
| 7 | Shute will probably start the game tomorrow night , as he has work doubts over defender Dave Bowman and striker Mark Shield , while another midfielder , Micky George will have a fitness test . |
| 8 | He can not coin guineas but in proportion as he has gold . ’ |
| 9 | He has as many selves as he has utterances , virtual or realized , as many selves as there are words in his lexicon , even in the dictionary of his potential language , with each word its aetimology , its phoneyetic fragility and its semiantic sea changes , each word its infinite contiguities and its tall spokes of paradismatic possibilities . |
| 10 | Johnson : ‘ Sir , a man can not make fire but in proportion as he has fuel . |