Example sentences of "as have [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Likewise , children with ‘ acquired childhood language disorder ’ may be recognised as having similar kinds of communication difficulties ( irrespective of specific causes ) and , on the basis of this diagnosis , they may be recommended for certain kinds of therapy ( Cantwell and Baker 1987 ) .
2 Although Noverre did not specifically name them he described these dancers ' particular characteristics as having similar physiques and technical expertise as the danseurs classiques but they were not always so well-proportioned and usually possessed a natural sense of comedy .
3 Aircraft maintenance function would be considered today as having five generations of development , as follows ( see Fig. 5 ) :
4 In his book , MODELS OF REVELATION , Avery Dulles described symbolism as having four properties .
5 We may think of the evaluation as having four foci :
6 These divergent states are often subjectively perceived as having distinctive characteristics that mark them out as discrete varieties : people can recognize regional varieties such as ‘ Birmingham ’ English , ‘ Yorkshire ’ English and so on , and they often have a fairly clear idea of how such varieties are distinguished from one another .
7 ‘ The engineer and the manufacturer in Britain are still perceived as having dirty hands , ’ says Andrew Robb , finance director of Pilkington , the Merseyside-based glass-maker .
8 Various statistical sources giving figures for the number of receivers show the country as having 120,000 sets .
9 ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ )
10 There was one vital breakthrough for the nationalist consciousness , though there still remains some doubt as to how deep this was for the Fianna Fáil party : all the parties committed themselves to the recognition of the protestant — loyalist group as having legitimate aspirations and affirmed the need for the recognition of ‘ two sets of legitimate rights ’ coexisting in the island as a whole : ‘ Constitutional nationalists are determined to secure justice for all traditions …
11 The second reason , less plausibly , is that they regard non-shareholder groups as having legitimate claims on the company and believe that these claims should be satisfied even though a reduction in shareholder wealth is involved .
12 According to the Memorandum , the NL was the power behind the Militant Christian Patriots as well as having close connections with the IFL .
13 We consider a matrix A , which for the moment we regard as having distinct eigenvalues .
14 It suited the more militant and ambitious New English to portray them as having Irish sympathies and having gone native .
15 What I do recall is that we drank beer which Eliot , like George Saintsbury , regarded as having certain virtues , especially at lunch-time , which wine did not possess .
16 AVMD made $846,000 pre-tax in 1988 and is warranted as having net assets of at least $1.15m .
17 So cities were again seen as having causal effects .
18 He was described as having slight injuries .
19 STAMFORD is usually referred to as having fourteen churches in the medieval period , but at one time there was a fifteenth , dedicated to St. Thomas .
20 This teaching is quite definitely New Age , as well as having pagan origins .
21 He probably sees me as having mechanical skills , like a dentist 's , which higher types must occasionally employ .
22 In my excited state , as the trees close over my head , I see this kind of thinking , this desire to reshape the world into something reassuring , as having many applications .
23 Changes designed to improve education can therefore be regarded as having two sources : those initiated by decision makers at local or national level ; those initiated by teachers .
24 A map is most easily conceived as having two co-ordinates , like longitude and latitude on customary human maps .
25 We may think of consciousness as having two components : sensation and perception on the one hand and willing or agency on the other ; or input and output .
26 This maintenance of a working class Tory vote sufficient to return the party to office can be thought of as having two components : first the reproduction of relatively stable social collectivities having a principle of identification outside the conception of ‘ class ’ which prompted most ‘ working class ’ people to vote Labour , and second a more conjunctural conversion of voters .
27 In table 5.1 , ( h ) is treated as binary , that is as having two variants , [ h ] and [ ? ] .
28 For my purposes here it is convenient to regard Barthes 's work as having two phases ; the first in which he is concerned with semiology , the second in which he is concerned with discourse .
29 They may shade off into what might more appropriately be called ethnocentrism , where ethnic groups are defined primarily in cultural terms and are regarded as having essential traits .
30 In my view racism , which should be distinguished from racial discrimination , should be restricted to discourses which group human populations into ‘ races ’ on the basis of some biological signifier — for example , ‘ stock ’ — with each ‘ race ’ being regarded as having essential characteristics or a certain essential character ( as in the phrase ‘ the British character ’ , or in attributions to ‘ races ’ of laziness , rebelliousness , or industriousness ) and where inferiorization of some ‘ races ’ may or may not be present .
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