Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unstereotyped , of striking beauty and enduring strength , the north Wales castles have survived as a unique and lasting monument to their age and their creator . |
| 2 | It is impossible to recognize in the poet thus characterized — ‘ precious ’ , ‘ insulate ’ , ‘ toylike ’ — the William Carlos Williams whom American opinon over the last thirty years has promoted as a respectable , and better than respectable , counterweight to Eliot . |
| 3 | ‘ Not that I have any wish to flatter you , but I have to admit that your sometimes acerbic comments have come as a welcome change . |
| 4 | On Jan. 9 the environmental group Greenpeace claimed that between 70,000 and 90,000 Iraqi civilians had died as a direct result of allied bombing ; the total number of Iraqi civilian and military war-related deaths was estimated at between 177,500 and 243,000 . |
| 5 | Already , within a week of being launched , what the conspirators had intended as a smooth , swift , surgical coup d ‘ état was turning into a full-scale civil war . |
| 6 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 7 | The move , which doctors have welcomed as a huge step towards showing the true level of smoking-related deaths , follows lengthy talks between the British Medical Association , the Census Office and coroners ' representatives . |
| 8 | In fact , ‘ I shot The Sheriff ’ was merely a Marleyised version of the storyline in a song that The Wailers had used as a vocal showcase since the late '60s , The Impressions ' ‘ Keep On Moving ’ . |
| 9 | In that country the original intention was to oppose the compulsory arbitration system which employers had regarded as a fundamental challenge to management rights , and subsequently to disseminate information and advice to association members ‘ in interpreting the maze of awards , classifications and legislation that the system was producing ’ ( Plowman , 1980 , p. 253 ) . |
| 10 | Gael develops this line of thought ; he believes that ‘ the perceiving self — that basic identity which philosophers have defined as a mere sequence of impressions accumulated by memory — is in fact the human soul , not the mind ’ ( 212 ) . |
| 11 | This is scarcely surprising ; human beings have evolved as a social species . |
| 12 | Over 1.2 million Tibetans have died as a direct result of China 's occupation , with countless more incarcerated in prisons and labour camps . |
| 13 | The debate about whether the bureaucrats of communist regimes have emerged as a new ruling class has largely centred on the relationship between state functionaries and collectivized property ( Lane 1982 , Ch. 5 ) . |