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

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1 Some boroughs — including the two named — are notoriously bad at collecting rents , and London arrears have soared already as the tighter benefit rules have taken effect .
2 I understand er good weather in Wales has meant red kites have done well as well ?
3 They have done so as technology has altered the source of profits in the total system of supply .
4 It is not only the Conservative party that has asked for such an explanation ; Labour supporters and sympathisers have done so as well .
5 Their exports of auto components have risen sharply as VW , Ford and other majors have altered their supply policies .
6 Shop prices in Russia and the Ukraine have risen sharply as the two countries take their first steps to a market economy by removing state controls .
7 Shop prices in Russia and the Ukraine have risen sharply as the two countries take their first steps to a market economy by removing state controls .
8 If you want to know why things have turned out as they are , you 've got to go back to the beginning . ’
9 Dating practices that have grown up as our ‘ permissive society ’ has developed will not stand the test of scriptural reasoning or even common sense .
10 The majority of old towns have grown up as market towns , and they all present their own special problems .
11 This provided something of a contrast to previous surveys , in which rural areas have shown up as having generally better housing than urban areas ( Dunn et al .
12 Dismissive of the ‘ corridor opportunites ’ , he fails to mention that , so far , the Foreign Secretaries of the UK and Argentina have had their first meeting since the 1982 Falklands War , that the Israeli and Soviet Foreign Ministers have got together as has the US Secretary of State with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts , or that the two German Foreign Ministers have held extensive talks on the current crisis — all with apparently good results : quite useful when several of these countries have no diplomatic relations with each other .
13 Sometimes we are joined by mums who we encourage to stay and see what we get up to , and some of the fathers have helped out as well .
14 Parents of young users have watched helplessly as their children , their bodies overheating uncontrollably , suffer a painful and harrowing shocking death .
15 Ever since the Portuguese annexed Goa in 1510 , the Europeans have had their eyes on or have in some ways dominated Asia and the Pacific ; Western ideas have triumphed here as everywhere else in the world .
16 You have behaved exactly as any intelligent human being should behave .
17 The wiring loom part numbers depend on the total amount you have burnt out as there are separate dash harness .
18 These handicaps have increased steadily as the EC becomes more supranational .
19 In other parts of the Group , the profits of Direct Line have taken off as we always said they would .
20 Innovation and expansion have continued apace as manufacturers have no misgivings about the long-term future for clay roofing tiles .
21 Use what you have learned only as background , or as a model ; concentrate on isolating suitable phrases or passages for comment , and on drawing general observations from them .
22 So far only Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co and Singapore Telecom have signed up as WorldPartners , but Unitel Communications Inc of Toronto , Canada says it has agreed to become a member and Korea Telecom and Australian long-distance company Telstra Pty Ltd also plan to join the venture .
23 Some have worked abroad as volunteers , on extended vacations or in casual jobs , and have then found it difficult to get back into the mainstream of a career .
24 Roberts ( 4.5 ) surveys the literature on youth , pointing out that the traditional focus on how youth cultures have functioned so as to reconcile young people to adult roles in employment and family life have lost a crucial element — the expectation that young people ( especially those with only basic education ) would have jobs available .
25 And Joanna 's bones have strengthened naturally as she has grown older .
26 However , the Arabs in and around Israel also claim the country because they have lived there as long as the Jews .
27 You know I 've had it happen the lights have changed just as I 've been crossing them so I 've gone over and three cars immediately behind me have followed me .
28 An unquizzical synthesis of the fabliaux " explicit morals produces at best an alternative moral scheme to that which was conventional in the Christian Middle Ages — and is still , largely , conventional today ; a scheme that various critics have described either as the morality of efficacy , the liberation of the instinct , a morality of pleasure , hedonistic materialism , or pragmatic warnings of the need to avoid deception and the promise or threat of retributive justice .
29 This is not to say that whatever mystery you have chosen so as to lead your hero or heroine into these successively more and more suspenseful situations will have to be kept entirely hidden from your reader till the last pages .
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