Example sentences of "[pers pn] as have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For others to regard you as having status , you have to be able to communicate it . |
| 2 | Some of Mrs Thatcher 's ‘ cheerleaders ’ in the party and popular press see her as having achieved a virtual revolution in British politics , restoring the authority of government , putting the trade unions in their place , taming a greedy and parasitic public sector , and regaining a greater freedom of choice for people in many areas . |
| 3 | The opening paragraph described her as having ‘ gone all out to play an extremely ignominious role by jumping around to establish ties , make outcries , agitate the people , fan the flames , and add fuel to them . |
| 4 | Horace Walpole described her as having a ‘ paltry air of significant learning and absurdity ’ , and added that she was so totally lacking in humour that ‘ she repined when she should laugh and reasoned when she should be diverted ’ . |
| 5 | You can never describe her as having a particular image . |
| 6 | The authoress describes her as having ‘ a mouth that could make a man think of doing some very strange things ’ . |
| 7 | He represented her as having been extremely swarthy , and quite emaciated , with a long crane-neck , and a short body , much resembling , in shape , a bass-viol . |
| 8 | Her books , among them Wood and Garden ( 1899 ) , Home and Garden ( 1900 ) , and Colour in the Flower Garden ( 1908 ) , were widely read and followed in Britain and her ideas were taken up by Mrs Francis King , a founder of the Garden Club of America , who recognized her as having ‘ made the planting of gardens in the English-speaking countries one of the Fine Arts ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Old bass-voiced Ethel Walker , ’ Woolf called her and described her as having a ‘ rough-raddled charm , the result of living a regular herring grillers life ’ . |
| 10 | We do not , Locke points out , punish a person for what he did when temporarily insane , and we speak of him as having been ‘ not himself ’ or ‘ beside himself ’ . |
| 11 | Donaldson described him as having ‘ a slight figure , with a strong constitution ( only once was he seen to wear an overcoat ) … frank and plain spoken , occasionally even to roughness … no flatterer … somewhat impulsive and gifted with great shrewdness and common sense … he was a man of the highest integrity and independence , and so far from leading his clients into needless of extravagant outlay , he would demur at any expense beyond his employer 's means … |
| 12 | A later epitaph carved on the sarcophagus of Scipio Africanus ' ancestor , Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus , described him as having ‘ good looks equal to his valour ’ , an idea foreign to traditional Roman thought but very much in the tradition of Alexander of Macedon . |
| 13 | ‘ Suppose , ’ said 1 , ‘ you represent him as having killed one of these birds on entering the South Sea , and that the tutelary spirits of these regions take upon them to avenge the crime . ’ |
| 14 | An Army report once described him as having no regard for human life . |
| 15 | The logbook of mid-upper gunner Albert F Wallace clearly shows him as having flown in Sugar during the early hours of January 5 . |
| 16 | He was a stockbroker , living in Hampstead , and such was his impressive appearance , an Australian lady columnist described him as having ‘ quite a Piccadilly manner ’ . |
| 17 | After some questioning of the driver , the constable concluded that his objection to providing a specimen of blood was invalid and treated him as having failed to provide a specimen under section 7(4) . |
| 18 | Fred Vermorel , an art-college friend of McLaren 's , who later wrote a book about the Sex Pistols , described him as having ‘ the vision of an artist , the heart of an anarchist , and the imagination of a spiv ’ . |
| 19 | Although I rated Mr Smith quite high in terms of integrity , I did not regard him as having a superior intellect and throughout the negotiations with which I was concerned he remained blinded by a prejudiced belief that the only rule in Rhodesia which was tolerable or possible was white rule . |
| 20 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
| 21 | Brooke met Gerry Collins , the Irish Foreign Minister , on May 31 amid a public controversy over the disclosure on May 30 that the Unionist parties had rejected Lord Carrington , a former UK Foreign Secretary , as a possible chair of the second phase of talks , describing him as having a " deplorable " record on Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | Hungarian radio said on Oct. 22 that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev 's spokesman had reported him as having condemned the 1956 Warsaw Treaty intervention in Hungary as a violation of international law . |
| 23 | ‘ That were Bill Oldenshaw , him as has the farm over by Stones Place . |
| 24 | Statistics up to 1971 showed it as having an old-age structure and to have been in continuing decline , though there are recent signs of improvement ( Census of Ireland 1981 ) . |
| 25 | Nicholas Pevsner later referred to it as having a ‘ blustering High Victorian effect ’ . |
| 26 | And the past to which you are so resolutely attached — I suppose you regard it as having been ideal ? |
| 27 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 28 | When Hanns wrote an article for the London magazine Ballet Today about South African achievements , he described it as having ‘ all the qualities which a good valentine should possess … the girls flit , skip and drift hither and thither in pairs or threes , giggle coyly and point with gloved hands , while the sentimental , romantic Pierrot searches among them for his true love . |
| 29 | David Stubbs , in the reliably rude Melody Maker said Gedge sounded like ‘ an existentialist garden gnome ’ and Andy Hurt in Sounds described it as having ‘ hapless vocals , an oh-so-ordinary melody line and limp-wristed production . ’ |
| 30 | He sees it as having symbolic significance , directing world attention to Australian research , development and intellectual quality . |