Example sentences of "as they have " in BNC.

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1 Books on art appreciation will also concern themselves with formal questions , as they have done since the beginning of the century .
2 Meanwhile , in this closing scene , the water hyacinths proceed towards the sea , as they have been doing throughout the action .
3 Harvest pears , cooking apples and dessert apples as soon as they have ripened .
4 They reflect the sense of disquietude , of alienation even , that broke into his consciousness , wrenching him from contentment and popularity and success into a feeling of grave unrest ; as they have continued to do , exacerbated by his own failures and guilt .
5 It implies , of course , that as long as they have the right kind of causal relations , other machines , apart from brains , can possess mentality ; and it also implies that the study of artificial intelligence and computational modelling is the royal road to understanding mentality .
6 As they have always been properly declared , I have assumed that goods below a certain value must be duty free .
7 As kennel dogs Graham does n't feel they really thrive , as they have thin coats and can feel the cold .
8 I have attempted to take a rapid view of developments in critical theory , or criticism with a theoretical consciousness , as they have appeared in British culture in the past twenty years .
9 ln his Introduction Eliot declares roundly : ‘ Pound 's critical writings , scattered and occasional as they have been , form the least dispensible body of critical writing in our time ’ .
10 The most powerful is that the figures , inaccurate as they have turned out to be , convinced experts employed by big investors and banks such as National Westminster .
11 ‘ It will be more like a home game for us than France as they have only sold about 20,000 tickets , ’ he said .
12 The Independent Broadcasting Authority has said that groups can team up as long as they have no more than 25 per cent of the total independent television advertising market .
13 But if players have their way , as they have in Berlin , the age of the megalomaniac conductor , the age of Karajan , may be over for ever .
14 The winter is going to be bleak for the TV companies as income from advertising falls off , and the New Year bleaker as they have to fork out a higher Government levy .
15 If I meet a new act , I always try and assess their maturity in order to judge whether they might go off the deep end as soon as they have success .
16 If they 're offered , as they have been for years and years ever since the industrial revolution , things that have been cynically designed for the working classes , is it surprising that we have a nation of people who are supposed to have no visual standards ?
17 Milan denied , however , that they plan to cut his current salary , as they have a right to do under Italian rules when a player has been out of action for more than six months .
18 At the annual meeting in March Mr Saatchi warned that profits would fall this year ( although nobody expected they would fall nearly as much as they have done ) and there would be disposals .
19 ‘ We 've got to do as good as they have . ’
20 YOU MAY recall the departure of Andrew Ellis , known among jobbing politicians as a sort of one-man byelection-winning machine , from his top job with the Liberal Democrats ( as they have since become ) .
21 Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years .
22 Then she and the president can set about hacking away as vigorously at the wasteful government machine as they have at the sheltered private sector .
23 Crudely speaking , this is the principle behind a breed of microscopes that may turn out to have as much impact on the microchip-production line as they have already had in the laboratory .
24 People form collections of ideas into modes , ‘ as they have frequent use of in their way of living and conversation , leaving others , which they have but seldom an occasion to mention , loose and without names . ’
25 The pre-recorded elements of his programmes for BBC Radio Kent are compiled in a home recording studio come darkroom , as they have been since 1975 .
26 Exercise has not been included in this because too few people have a history of exercise attempts in the same way as they have diet attempts .
27 But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have .
28 I do n't see why I should n't look people in the eye ; I 've as much right to walk the street as they have , have n't I ?
29 The first of these effects is certainly beneficial , and the second may sometimes be ; hence bacteria have not evolved special mechanisms to resist infection by plasmids , as they have to resist viruses .
30 Norwich lost key components of their team in the run-up to the Everton game — just as they have for tomorrow 's tie .
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