Example sentences of "as [pron] has [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As long as someone has n't parked on the patch of paint and taken it all away on their tyres . ’ |
| 2 | Graf , the French and Wimbledon champion , will be a firm favourite to collect her third U.S. Open crown as she has not lost to Sukova in 19 matches since losing in their first meeting as a 14-year-old in 1983 . |
| 3 | The allowance is given from the date of bereavement to the end of that tax year , and for the following year so long as she has not remarried by the start of that year . |
| 4 | It is important here , though , not to take the notion of " education " in any narrow sense , since the mission of national education as it operated between 1880 and 1920 encompassed institutions , events , and locations well beyond the scope of education as it has since come to be formally conceived . |
| 5 | Industry is in no position to undertake a surcharge on its costs , and will probably reply , as it has just done on the question of arts funding , that industrial sponsorship is a supplement to government funding : it is not available as a substitute for it . |
| 6 | No doubt your gran often gave your mum the benefit of her advice but it probably never occurred to her , as it has n't occurred to you , that your mother longs for love , company and sex . |
| 7 | Often ‘ community health ’ , ‘ public health ’ or ‘ community health medicine ’ , ( as it has recently decided to be called ) , deals with the community in the above manner , that of a doctor dealing with an individual : the doctor examines and prescribes , the patient listens and obeys . |
| 8 | Unless the Community has enacted legislation to apply the competition rules specifically to the activities of such undertakings , as it has recently done in the telecommunications sector , many public utilities such as water authorities , state postal services or state railways fall outside the competition rules . |
| 9 | As it has often done in the modern period , the experience of war had given those who had taken part in it and survived it a new and more confident awareness of their own worth and standing . |
| 10 | But the ICA responded to this challenge as it has always done with the difficult or the new ; with the sort of calculated risk-taking that the majority of Arts Council-sponsored venues habitually shy away from . |
| 11 | One problem hampering the incident investigators is that they can not immediately examine the section of the tank which was holed as it has now sunk to below ground level . |
| 12 | I respect them , especially so as he has just come from South Africa . |
| 13 | But the pot of gold simply does not exist as he has already discovered in trying to pay for Labour 's initial promises . |
| 14 | At the moment Ian is playing as well as he has ever played in my time at Carrow Road . ’ |
| 15 | Tony Garnett produces for Temple in California , and it has to be as far as he has ever got from the Ken Loach films with which he was associated before going to America . |
| 16 | But Prince Adam has a certain amount of clout , as he has recently brought off a resounding coup and made a grand gesture . |