Example sentences of "as have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These books and plays and films reveal a humanity which surmounts , as has been said , the hardship and brutality they describe — surmounts it , as a rule , by laughing at it . |
| 2 | As has been seen , partially as a result of Cardinal Cullen 's nineteenth-century reforms , the church became more organized and developed in its numbers of clergy and religious . |
| 3 | As has been frequently pointed out , it is no use providing excellent beer or food if the pub in question has lost all of its charm and atmosphere ; and surely a multi-roomed pub , with a number of differing environments , is the best way to serve what is after all always a very diverse and unstandardised community . |
| 4 | Moreover , as has been noted earlier , all character dance movements must be more strongly marked both physically and musically than the demi-caractère versions of the same steps . |
| 5 | A literary text is , manifestly , the product of a particular historical situation , and may be interpreted in the light of its origins and initial reception , as has been done in the discussions of Romantic literature by Marilyn Butler and Jerome J. McGann , who can be called New Historicists minus the ideological charge . |
| 6 | However , Winters was to decide that Williams was ‘ wholly incapable of coherent thought ’ , and when Williams tried to explain his own rhythmical procedures he invented ‘ the variable foot ’ — which is , as has been remarked , the equivalent of a rubber inch . |
| 7 | Of the original concept , only weatherman Francis Wilson survives and even he seemed to be making conscious efforts not to call clouds ‘ white , fluffy bits ’ , as has been his trick . |
| 8 | Critics argue that if the probe should explode on lift-off or veer off course and re-enter Earth 's atmosphere , the batteries could be pulverised , dispersing 260,000 curies of radioactive waste — more than half as much as has been released in all nuclear tests . |
| 9 | Machinery was much scarcer than land , as has been seen . |
| 10 | In the subsequent scramble for survival and enrichment which mounted towards the end of 1922 , it was not surprising that those who were slightly better off often took a kind of revenge in driving hard bargains with their poorer neighbours , as has been noted earlier . |
| 11 | The chief symptom of continuing instability was the ‘ scissors crisis ’ which began to affect Smolensk and all other gubernii in 1922 , as has been seen , and reached a climax in 1923 when the scissors opened too widely in favour of manufactured goods . |
| 12 | Dzerzhinsky discovered 2,583 unused railway-trucks there ( some of them sent on from the Volga and dumped , as has been seen ) . |
| 13 | The largest army in the world was recruited mainly from the peasantry , and , as has been seen in the provinces , the party still relied heavily in 1922 on ex-army men to act as leaven among the ‘ dark people ’ . |
| 14 | But there was much evidence of divided counsels on both the Labour and Conservative sides , as has been noted above . |
| 15 | As has been seen , the progress of Thatcherism had been erratic , even hesitant , since 1979 , though the Falklands victory had given the record of the past four years a spurious consistency . |
| 16 | During the Falklands War , as has been seen , American support , including missiles , materially assisted towards a British victory . |
| 17 | On Europe , as has been seen , Labour was by 1989 much more committed to developments within the Community . |
| 18 | We also reviewed such evidence as has been submitted to us about the possible relation between the number of executions in particular years and the incidence of murder in succeeding years . |
| 19 | Such a view is easily reconciled with Marxist theory , as has been pointed out by E. Terray [ Terray , 1977a ] . |
| 20 | farmers encouraging foxes to live on their land encourage a whole range of other wildlife that enjoys the same habitat , as has been done at Highgrove . |
| 21 | In an increasing number of cases , no margin at all , as has been the case in the past and is so today in parts of Africa . |
| 22 | Carbon dioxide will be the supreme test of commitment and anti-pollution technology , but , as has been noted before , it is so omnipresent , its natural cycle so great and its sources and sinks so difficult to determine accurately ( one assessment in early 1990 downgraded the amount mopped up by the oceans by 50 per cent but came to no firm conclusion about where the unaccounted for remainder went ) , so closely linked with economic growth and its man-made sources so hard and expensive to restrain that it is difficult to imagine a protocol which will be globally effective . |
| 23 | In fact , however , our knowledge here is not so deficient as has been imagined . |
| 24 | Central to the legislators ' notions of purity was an all-pervasive blood taboo which , as has been demonstrated above , embraced foodstuffs , sacrificial victims , humans , etc. , and very definitely separated out the male from the female . |
| 25 | As has been shown above , blood was perceived to be the life-giving force of the universe — an obvious conclusion on empirical grounds , but one which was elevated from the pragmatic to the sacred in Hebrew thought by the belief that in humans it was also the seat of the soul , hence the choice of terminology noted at the outset of this essay for murder and death in the Old Testament . |
| 26 | As has been aptly stated , the fate of the Jews ‘ was an unpleasant topic , speculation was unprofitable , discussions of the fate of the Jews were discouraged . |
| 27 | There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained . |
| 28 | Mr Paul Whelan , the party 's organisation officer , claims 10 times as much is spent chasing each expatriate vote as has been devoted to encouraging each unregistered adult living in Britain to claim theirs . |
| 29 | It is clearly , on this basis , wholly insufficient to sample the equivalent of three/four voters per constituency , as has been the case . |
| 30 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |