Example sentences of "[vb base] been as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think so far we ve been as good as gold , and can only maybe have offended Scum supporters … which can only be good : - ) ) ) ) |
| 2 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 3 | I 've been as far a a places as far apart as the presbytery of erm Annandale and Esdale which is to , what to south of Scotland , erm and I ca n't think of any corresponding place erm in the north but there have been places in the north that I 've also gone to , and this is my donor card . |
| 4 | ‘ We know that , ’ said Pooley , ‘ and we 've been as thorough as we could be without much hope of finding anything . ’ |
| 5 | And yet I 've been as guilty as anybody else in saying , Oh they wo n't wan na come in this medical practice booklet what will they gain from it ? |
| 6 | I 've been as fucking sober as a Judge since Friday night . |
| 7 | His performances on television have been as varied as Freud , and as Blott in Tom Sharpe 's Blott on the Landscape . |
| 8 | Other Hamlets have been as wrong-headed : Laurence Olivier 's of 1948 , perhaps , which charted ‘ the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind ’ , or Grigori Konzintsev 's Marxist version of 1964 . |
| 9 | I will be arguing in this address that we have been as guilty as many other sections of our community in treating it too lightly , or in putting it lower down in our order of priorities than it ought to be ; but it has never been entirely absent from Christian thought or theology . |
| 10 | Matters of control , both quality and quantity , have been as important as income . |
| 11 | Predator species have a long evolutionary history , and it is inferred that they have been as important in the past as accumulators of small mammal bone as they are today . |
| 12 | THE MILITANT defenders of animals ' rights have been as active in Canada as in Britain . |
| 13 | ‘ I am not always at the village , ’ said Allen , ‘ sometimes I go east to Lincoln , or south to Peterborough , I have been as far as Lynn . |
| 14 | There were sixteen riders that year , but there have been as many as twenty-two or sometimes only nine or ten . |
| 15 | Could the processes of naming and discourse have been as conveniently managed by a name for every individual , the names of classes , and the idea of classification , would never have existed . |
| 16 | There have been as many ways of doing this as there have been ethnographic studies done . |
| 17 | The swerves in economic management have been as much his as Mr Lamont 's . |
| 18 | Not all western reactions have been as chilly . |
| 19 | But we have been as l low as that before ? |
| 20 | The recent reductions in Victoria have been as great among blue collar workers ( who watch 38% more commercial television : M Scollo , Victorian smoking and health programme , personal communication ) as among white collar workers . |
| 21 | Not all of these have been as successful as some of their proponents have claimed . |
| 22 | Ask a bookdealer how his trade has changed over the last twenty years , and you 'll get an answer worthy of a merchant banker : volumes have multiplied ( hardly surprising : there have been as many books published since 1960 as in all the previous history of publishing ) , margins have been squeezed ; competition has grown fiercer , and specialisation finer ; women and Japanese have become crucial forces with which to reckon . |
| 23 | In the creation of our modern world-view , few periods of Western history have been as decisive as the hundred fifty years that followed the publication , in 1543 , of Copernicus 's sun-centered astronomy . |
| 24 | In the more remote regions population losses have been as high as 10 per cent in many of the intercensal periods during the twentieth century ( Dunn 1976 ) . |
| 25 | But if the pageboy William is talking , making noises , or turning paper napkins into darts , you could say , ‘ All the children have been as good as they could be , even little William ! ’ |
| 26 | This year the flags we have seen flown as ensigns by yachts purporting to be British have been as imaginative and various as they have been illegal . |
| 27 | My client wonders if the police have been as thorough in their research as they seem to imply . |
| 28 | Feminists who are also black , working-class or lesbian ( or all three ) have been as concerned as any other group to establish their own identity and to reclaim their own realities as women . |
| 29 | I have been in contact with the authorities , and particularly with the police in my constituency , who have been as helpful as they can in all the circumstances . |
| 30 | Erm , but he also thought it was quite nice that they were , and good that they were , as generous , or have been as generous as they have . |