Example sentences of "[noun] as have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 2 | They characterise the management of secondary schools as having a number of features — many of which may be attributed to the absence of effective staff management policies . |
| 3 | However , they are difficult to defend in the context of aid when cultural values are different in donor countries and recipient countries , and when public opinion in the donor countries perceives aid as having a moral justification . |
| 4 | However , the present study also sees industrial relations variables as having a certain ‘ functional autonomy ’ ( Shalev 1980 : 29 ) . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most unusual feature of the diagram was that it represented the figure as having a twin backbone . |
| 6 | One of the leading dancers with the Ballet Club , she is described by Luyt as having a brilliant technique , and he says she ‘ was compact and a dream to do double-work with , and was fearless in trying out death-defying lifts ’ . |
| 7 | There was now a need to ensure both activities were seen by parents as having a purpose … |
| 8 | Such inducements can be caught by British law as having a clearly defined ‘ tendency to deprave and corrupt ’ . |
| 9 | The DSS argued that intention did not matter and under legal aid regulations they were entitled to treat Mr Saunders as having a notional £407,000 . |
| 10 | Homer sees The Committee as having a tremendous chance in the National if he stays out of trouble . |
| 11 | In such circumstances , one or more persons may be appointed to sue or be sued in a representative capacity as having a common interest with all other persons ( Ord 5 , r 5(1) ) . |
| 12 | The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this , namely , that Parliament thus defined has , under the English constitution , the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . |
| 13 | Parliamentary sovereignty , he wrote , meant that Parliament had " the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognized by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . " |
| 14 | The emotional quality of the game experience has been characterised by Vygotsky as having a dual affect . |
| 15 | The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia . |
| 16 | ‘ Decoupage ’ giftware , a Victorian-inspired design embodying the rich heritage of Mason 's , also received lots of attention from buyers as has a new tableware pattern , ‘ Spring Blossom ’ . |
| 17 | It is a long list , but the SPSSX stepwise procedure seldom selected more than a few predictors as having a significant influence upon perceptions . |
| 18 | If one person performed all these tasks then they were defined by the Tavistock group as having a ‘ composite work role ’ . |
| 19 | Perhaps , however , we must think of the postman as having a seemingly well founded belief that he is delivering letters to real people . |
| 20 | Respondents who indicated that ‘ all senior staff ’ or all ‘ section heads ’ or all ‘ supervisory staff ’ have training responsibilities , but who did not specify any individuals as having a co-ordinating role , or spending at least one-quarter of their time on training , were also included in the second group . |
| 21 | At the most general level , therefore , it is convenient to think of the speech community as having a ‘ shape ’ and of language in the community as being capable of displaying patterns , much as we might think of these other dynamic phenomena as displaying shapes and patterns . |
| 22 | Mr Price said her statement described Mr Robson as having a swollen hand and scratches on his face . |
| 23 | For these reasons , Erik Wright ( 1985 ) regards the very top managers as having a class position among the capitalist ( upper ) class , while the managerial and professional middle class occupy ‘ contradictory class locations ’ combining some elements of capitalistic control with other elements of proletarian dependence . |
| 24 | Milic sees this habit as having a role in Swift 's persuasive rhetoric : as helping to create an impression of consummate logical clarity . |
| 25 | Later he would see Hugo 's Quasimodo as having a direct bearing on his as yet unformed philosophy of ugliness , and he remembered a saying : ‘ In my soul I am beautiful . ’ |
| 26 | Few schools perceived health board staff as having a role in staff development and yet , according to health board staff , that is one of their three main functions . |
| 27 | Harvey also sees general practitioners as having a key role in the information strategy for community care . |
| 28 | The former clinic patients with anti-social behaviour were considerably more often diagnosed by the research psychiatrists as having a sociopathic personality than were the comparison group . |
| 29 | The meaning of the to infinitive is thus in fact a combination of two potentials : the potential meaning of the bare infinitive , which gives the speaker the possibility of representing the realization of any action as unfolding from its beginning through to its end and any state as having a fully actualized lexical content ; and the potential significate of to , which affords the speaker the possibility of representing any movement in time from a before-position to an after-position ( corresponding here to the beginning of the infinitive event ) . |
| 30 | The other interpretation would see the emergence of fairness as having a broader implication . |