Example sentences of "as have [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , of course , accept that if the privilege against self-incrimination is to be abolished or abridged , then this must be done by Parliament , as has occurred in a number of statutes . |
| 2 | Just as Hobbes rejects Descartes 's view of sense-perception as having to do with an immaterial mind , so his moral philosophy is purely materialistic , and appeals only to the idea of matter in motion . |
| 3 | Patients with the 3849+10 kb mutation were older , had been diagnosed as having CF at a more advanced age , and were in a better nutritional state . |
| 4 | Changes in social status ; changes in the technology of war ; changes in the geographical and temporal scale on which it was fought are seen as having led to a decline in noble influence upon its conduct . |
| 5 | At one stage his entire family of fourteen were reported as having lived on a dollar a week ! |
| 6 | Sir James was reported as having called for a return of capital punishment , launched an attack on the parole system , favoured the abolition of the right to silence for accused persons , referred to a black person as a ‘ nig-nog ’ , and made a remark about ‘ murderous Sikhs ’ involved in a case he was hearing at the time . |
| 7 | Union members picketed the Torbay Hotel , cutting off fuel oil supplies , and later , when the manager of the plaintiff hotel was reported as having called for a stand against the union , picketed that hotel with the same result . |
| 8 | Then Borg and Lloyd , ghosts from the ‘ Love Match ’ of long ago , were reported as having lost to a pair of teenagers young enough to be their sons . |
| 9 | In the circumstances of the case , Lord Macnaughton regarded Mr. Bruce as having come under a duty to the wife and he said , at p. 137 : |
| 10 | These followed two decades of consolidation of the ‘ stable democracies ’ in the Western capitalist world , and of the presumably ‘ stable autocracies ’ in the socialist world of Eastern Europe , as well as the emergence of a ‘ Third World ’ ( including many newly independent states ) which was conceived by most Western political scientists as having embarked upon a process of gradual ‘ modernization ’ and ‘ industrialization ’ . |
| 11 | He found that in the neutral condition , where no particular inference was confirmed or disconfirmed by subsequent information , all potential inferences were falsely identified as having occurred in a passage about 25 per cent of the time . |