Example sentences of "as having [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … .
2 For some , this depth is seen as having imposed an institutional bias and rigidity on the economy from as long ago as the late nineteenth century .
3 It came from a very smart left-hand catch by Hick , his sixth of the match , a reprimand by gesture to WCM for putting him down as having missed a catch ( Aqib ) in the Lord 's Test which actually fell an inch or two short of Hick 's fingers .
4 George Moore 's depiction of Jesus as having survived the Crucifixion followed on from a contention maintained not only by some of the oldest heresies , but also by the Koran , and thus widely accepted throughout Islam and the Islamic world .
5 This is the system which they see as having replaced the Roman Empire in Europe .
6 Informants in all the schools perceived the project as having provoked more general awareness of study skills as an issue , and as having stimulated the need for some kind of response .
7 It was not surprising that Tehran had seized upon the state of the oil market , in the light of the widespread indictment of Riyadh as having provoked the circumstances which left OPEC in disarray in 1985–86 .
8 There is no doubt the uniform policemen see their one-time associates in the CID as having crossed a divide , while the detectives know they have joined a closed and somewhat élite family group , whose strengths include the inside support of other members of that society .
9 Similarly , on June 29th 1970 , the same newspaper reported Portuguese troops as having crossed the border from Angola in order to kidnap the inhabitants of a remote Zambian village .
10 Cultural and social forces are also likely to be important in explaining the fall in fertility , but among economic factors the ratio of women 's to men 's pay emerges as having contributed to falling birth rates during the 1970s .
11 In his day Hamilton was recognized by discriminating judges as having contributed decisively to the emergence of the new naturalistic style of English landscape , and his guidance was sought by his friends for such outstanding creations as Stourhead , Bowood , Hagley , and Holland Park .
12 The latest talks , led by the Indian Foreign Secretary J. N. Dixit and Chinese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Xu Dunxin , were officially reported as having contributed to " a certain progress " .
13 The result was seen as having strengthened the somewhat precarious position of Prime Minster Toshiki Kaifu within the party .
14 In both the Reports of the Court to the General Assembly and the listings of the United Nations Secretariat , Nicaragua was included as having accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court through the operation of Article 36 ( 5 ) on its acceptance of the compulsory jurisdiction of the Permanent Court .
15 Some two-thirds of all temporary workers regard themselves as having seasonal , temporary or casual jobs and only one third as having fixed contract jobs , but with substantial differences between industries and occupations .
16 In February 1989 , the Lord Chancellor was reported as having sought an explanation of remarks made at a dinner by Sir James Miskin , Recorder of London .
17 ( Mitterrand was widely interpreted at the conference as having warned that francophone African states which did not adopt multiparty democracy would be less favourably considered in France 's future allocation of aid . )
18 The presence of oxygen , not usually cited as the cause of a fire , is put forward as having caused a fire in a laboratory or a space satellite for the reason that oxygen is usually and by intention excluded from some apparatus or chamber .
19 ‘ We hope that by the end of the conference we will be able to suggest some acceptable ways forward for the future , as well as having aired the problems . ’
20 The report described Antigua as having been " engulfed in corruption " , and as having fallen victim to people who used " political power as a passport to private profit " .
21 The logbook of mid-upper gunner Albert F Wallace clearly shows him as having flown in Sugar during the early hours of January 5 .
22 E. McTaggart , in The Nature of Existence , refers to Russell as having led him ‘ to accept the view that the self is known to itself by direct perception ’ .
23 A whole series of arguments against correctionalism can be discerned , originating from various sources , but all gaining impetus in the 1960s and early 1970s : the corrective stance was seen as being inappropriate to an academic discipline in that its partiality had the effect of distorting the nature and appearance of the phenomena it was studying ; it was seen as neglecting the possibility that crime may have positive qualities and consequences ; correctionalism was seen as having led to the violation of fundamental human rights and principles of justice in its single-minded quest for efficient crime control .
24 And Frye is sceptical about the possibility of women looking to their foremothers as a source of inspiration ; of seeing some women , at least , as having led lives that were not wholly male-mediated .
25 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 .
26 A leading authority on corporatism has identified the following elements in modern capitalism as having led to the gradual displacement of pluralism by ‘ societal corporatism ’ : .
27 The beneficiaries thus regard themselves as having received no more than their due , to which they were entitled anyhow , while those whose benefits are discontinued regard themselves as cheated of what they had a right to and had been encouraged to expect .
28 Individuals who receive such a distribution are treated as having received a payment of capital .
29 In 1106 , after the death of his brother Geoffrey , Fulk of Anjou was recorded by Orderic as having received the county of Anjou from King Philip I ; his homage therefore implied feudal subordination .
30 Clause 33(1) of the Finance ( No. 2 ) Bill 1975 provided that the employee was to be treated , on receipt of a voucher , as having received an emolument from his employment of an amount ‘ equal to the expense incurred by the person providing the voucher in or in connection with the provision of the voucher and the money , goods or services for which it is capable of being exchanged . ’
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