Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
| 32 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 33 | In July 1990 , he grabbed the last qualifying place for the World Championship cycle in a hard-fought tournament in Manila by defeating Mikhail Gurevich , one of Kasparov 's former trainers , in the final game from a position most players would have given up as a draw . |
| 34 | However , it is misleading to think of the Central Wales Line as having developed originally as a route from NW England to S Wales . |
| 35 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 36 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 37 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 38 | Every now and again , they would have to stand aside as a great shire horse , leaning into its collar , plodded by . |
| 39 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
| 40 | This may have come about as a result of a phase of shifting settlement gradually giving way to greater stability , so that when land boundaries ( some of which may have also become parish boundaries ) were formed the earlier settlements may , purely by chance , occur at a distance to later ones and are therefore more likely to lie near boundaries ( see also , Welch 1985 , pp. 18–21 ) . |
| 41 | In his mind he saw his grand-father ; he must have visited here as a young man . |
| 42 | Eight of the American 's wins have come inside the distance and , having boxed occasionally as a lightheavyweight , feels he has sufficient power to worry Wharton who has won 12 and drawn one of his pro bouts . |
| 43 | It must have spewed out as a gas — a blindingly hot gas . ’ |
| 44 | But Arnold seems unaware of the strain that Jellett must have borne specifically as a woman artist , and one can not help but wonder if this contributed to her early death . |
| 45 | He was thin , dark and sallow , with prominent brown eyes , and he could have passed anywhere as a Lebanese or a Palestinian . |
| 46 | In this way , what might have started off as a cyclical deficit will soon become a structural deficit unless action is taken to bring borrowing down . |
| 47 | ‘ But you must have started out as a baby , ’ the boy said . |
| 48 | Programming might have started out as an ancillary task in a student 's special subject of physics chemistry or psychology but soon takes over as the dominating interest . |
| 49 | Despite having worked previously as an ethnographer , Bourdieu makes no attempt to employ the ethnographic method in this work , relying instead on a lengthy questionnaire reproduced at the end of the book . |
| 50 | Oddly enough , Stirling might well have ended up as a brigadier with an even larger command . |
| 51 | With hindsight , it was probably the best thing that could have happened to him , otherwise he would no doubt have ended up as a Bomber Pilot , and no-one knows better than I what a dead-end occupation that was . |
| 52 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |
| 53 | So claiming that had this relationship continued Hilary would probably have ended up as the wife of a petrol pump attender rather than the wife of the President of the United States . |
| 54 | Fellow Irishman Mick Fitzgerald would have stood out as the ‘ find of the season ’ in any normal year . |
| 55 | This significant development in state intervention in the economy seems to have come about as a result of a mixture of growing humanitarian concern and embryonic working-class pressure . |
| 56 | If failure rates are constant , ( and there is no reason for any alternative assumption ) , and no change in research policy within the department ( and there is no evidence for this ) , then the gap is likely to have arisen solely as the result of lack of demand . |
| 57 | As such , they are extremely valuable and their accuracy is known to have improved considerably as a result of methodological improvements made over the last few years ( OPCS , 1980 ; Craig and Broad , 1982 ) . |
| 58 | Even Hugh , although able to look like a jeune premier from time to time , had filled out as a result of an under-demanding marriage and a sedentary occupation , and would have been a round peg for such a small square hole . |
| 59 | James 's victory gave him 35 points to Lauda 's 61 , his car was clearly among the best , he had matured greatly as a driver , he was on a good roll himself : the championship seemed to be there for his taking . |
| 60 | A series of articles in the ( CCP ) People 's Daily in November noted that the CCP 's popularity had ebbed mainly as a result of corruption among party members . |