Example sentences of "as having the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The test was tried first on the horse who was regarded as having the lowest intelligence : a mare who lived around the family home .
2 Search literature refers to the best path as having the lowest cost .
3 With a dry wit and an infectious Brooklyn drawl , Karen , as part of the Flatbush-based Soulboys group of club-runners , was responsible for some of the first illegal parties in New York , as well as having the much-coveted job of doorperson at various Manhattan clubs .
4 At the end of the year the Bank received the prime accolade as having the Best Corporate Arts Programme in Great Britain .
5 While Jamie is regarded in Hollywood as having the perfect body , Emma adopts a no-nonsense approach to acting that keeps the work flooding in .
6 Among the countries of South East Asia , a recent World Bank report regards the Philippines as having the highest level of poverty and the lowest calory supply per head .
7 NORTHERN Ireland stands out as having the highest number of long-term unemployed .
8 Votes are successively transferred from candidates who have a surplus of votes over and above the quota and from candidates excluded as having the smallest number of votes in the relevant count .
9 ‘ Then we attach the new care assistant to a member of staff , not necessarily the most experienced , but someone whom we see as having the right attitude to the residents .
10 Do they know who lies beside them the long night through , under the overhanging cliffs recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as having the only sunless spot in Britain , summer or winter ?
11 The political culture of Britain may then be characterized , in broad terms , as having the four orientations identified : empirical in terms of problem-solving and change , allegiant in terms of the political system , cooperative in making decisions , and trusting with relation to fellow countrymen and allies .
12 The fourth item in table 9.7 shows the five Authorities identified as having the worst housing conditions under the ACORN scheme , which includes multiple criteria and identifies four mutually exclusive groups of housing areas associated with particular deprivation , each of which could be treated separately in the allocation of resources : poor terraced housing , the poorest Local Authority housing , areas with a high concentration of multiple — occupancy and of people of Asian origin , and areas with a high concentration of multi-let property with a significant proportion of people of Afro-Caribbean origin .
13 Greece was criticized at the conference as having the worst record among participating countries .
14 You 'd have to have cons you have to , as well as having the dipping controls , you 'd have to have the controls over marketing as well .
15 Before the 1974 Revolution , as well as having the world-famous Reid 's Palace Hotel and the Savoy Hotel , the island boasted a Sheraton , Hilton ( now Madeira Palâcio ) , Holiday Inn ( now Atlantis ) and the then under construction Casino Park Hotel designed by Oscar Niemeyer — a total of six luxury five-star hotels .
16 The picture was signed " Madeleine Bernard " , and Alexander told Frederica that Gauguin had flirted seriously with that young woman , had characterised her , as was fashionable at the time , as having the desirable , unattainable androgynous perfection , complete sensuality combined with unattainable self-sufficiency .
17 In the matter of contract , drunkenness is regarded as having the same effect as insanity .
18 Aurobindo sees all things as having the same principal of life at different levels , but in all of them is the potentiality and inevitability to reach higher and higher levels .
19 Her slovenliness was a state of mind , the exteriorisation of her despair , and he saw all her faults as having the same root : bad company , bad education , bad conditions .
20 Although individual client executives tend to favour dealing with known consultants , if those consultants leave their firms , they are not necessarily then seen in the same light , or as having the same resources at their disposal .
21 First , it treats all members of a social group as having the same set of possible actions .
22 It is a bit like arguing that if the hypothesis that smoking causes lung cancer is to be believed , everybody who smokes must get cancer ; what is more nothing else ( such as asbestos ) can be admitted as having the same effect .
23 The same object may reflect different wavelengths at different times yet be seen as having the same colour .
24 So , for instance , a variation in ministerial statements on the legislative intention behind a provision in a Government Bill might be sufficient to characterize the statements as unclear , but a similar variation in the statements in the Commons and the Lords by the promoters of a private Members Bill might not be treated as having the same significance .
25 If the tube is defined as having the same length as the unperturbed chain , nl o , where l o is the bond length under θ conditions ( corrected for short range interactions ) , then the time required for the chain to reptate out of the tube is proportional to the square of the distance travelled , i.e.
26 The draftsman must , therefore , express himself consistently throughout the lease , for a word used in one part of the lease will probably be construed as having the same meaning if used in another part of the same document .
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