Example sentences of "as [pers pn] has [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is a home from home for Sue Wilson , who has probably spent as many nights at the camp since it was set up on January 18 as she has at home .
2 BELVILLE : I hope , Lady Davers , she can make as great a convert of you from pride as she has of me from libertinism .
3 Throughout her school career Anna has been involved in a plethora of sporting clubs participating as fully in organisation terms as she has as a sportswoman .
4 This has far-reaching implications also for social work across the entire range of activities as it has to be based very firmly on an elaborate statutory framework which spells out possibilities and responsibilities for intervention in considerable detail .
5 ‘ It would give our police a more aggressive appearance as it has to be worn outside the uniform . ’
6 When the accompanying chords are detached , it is not necessary to make the melodic line quite so powerful as it has to be to come through a mass of sustained harmony .
7 Investigations of problems like these is time-consuming , as it has to be done by the accumulation and synthesis of quantities of very diverse information .
8 Furthermore , while linguistics has certainly been useful to the study of rhythm as it has to all aspects of poetry , there has been an unfortunate tendency to suppose that the language of verse is itself rhythmic .
9 They say that nobody remembers who came second but when that has happened to you as often as it has to Montgomerie , it is difficult to forget .
10 Third , the Registrar 's certificate will be given the same effect as regards further particulars as it has with respect to the creation of a charge .
11 Money has a lot to do with it , as it has with every problem in Derbyshire .
12 The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent .
13 What hope there is resides primarily in the same section of the news-stands as it has for several years — the ‘ serious ’ and ‘ specialist ’ music press .
14 In some cases surgery can help , as it has for Joanna .
15 I know that the organisational change has come as a shock to you , as it has for me , but we want to part company after all these years , on the best and friendliest of terms .
16 We will also seek further opportunities for the private sector to contribute , as it has for example with the Channel Tunnel , the Queen Elizabeth II bridge at Dartford , the second Severn Bridge and the Birmingham Northern Ring Road .
17 They managed to finish on grass quite happily and their marbled , lean , tender beef caught the eye of the butchers , as it has for centuries .
18 Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc .
19 Brian Richards , vice president of UK preclinical R & D at Searle , which recently spent £15 million designing and building a genetic engineering pilot plant in High Wycombe , near London , argues that ‘ good manufacturing practice ’ may suffice for biotechnology factories — as it has for other fermentation industries such as the antibiotic industry .
20 Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years .
21 IBM 's famous opinion survey is alive and well , running every second year , as it has for more than 20 years .
22 It is essential to add that plate tectonics has crept into this matter as it has into every other aspect of the earth sciences .
23 This latter comparison and its continuing memory in the culture unquestionably has had the same tranquillising effect on the American underclass as it has on that in Europe .
24 Inflation will come down through the use of high interest rates , as it has in the past .
25 Even so , the bulk of the increase would have to come from improved yields , as it has in the past three decades .
26 It is predicted that such developments will gain common ground in the elaboration of the GUI concept as it has in the computer-aided design world , but will quickly diversify in terms of the actual products which emerge .
27 As I said before , this kind of political analysis has simply not advanced in Europe as it has in Britain .
28 Expansion can not come , as it has in every previous recession , from the removal of credit controls , since there are none to remove .
29 If the sport grows over the next 10 years as quickly as it has in the past five , I could make a lot of money . ’
30 These considerations hold out some hope that , while the problem of maintaining lead times will remain serious , it will remain a manageable problem , much as it has in the past .
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