Example sentences of "had been as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dead Certain had been as badly affected as any , but Elsworth simply would not run a horse of that class in such a race unless he believed it was capable of giving of its best . |
| 2 | They would have the fire brigade round in a few moments if the external noise had been as loud as the internal one . |
| 3 | Rose Brady 's attention had been as unexpected as it had been sudden and welcome . |
| 4 | Neil Kinnock and Gerald Kaufman had been as busy on the thesaurus of outrage . |
| 5 | Kicking the Sheraton cabinet quietly had been as far as he had ever gone in destructiveness . |
| 6 | The programme , in retrospect , was practically science fiction : nothing had been as easy in practice as Tech-Green had declared in theory . |
| 7 | He admitted that Ipswich had been as fortunate to beat Newcastle as they were to beat Wolves in midweek . |
| 8 | She had been as long as 33–1 in the offices in the morning , opened 16–1 on course , before being sent off at 8–1 , and ironically it had been an eye-catching workout with the Luca Cumani-trained Red Slippers last week that convinced Bell that he had a worthy contender . |
| 9 | The defeat was severe , for the internationalist Left had been as strong in Finland as in Great Russia . |
| 10 | Sykes had been as cold and miserable as me , hoping against hope that I would surrender first . |
| 11 | In important respects , however , his longing was a self-deception , a poetically fruitful means of expressing that sense of loneliness and isolation which had been as much a part of him in Ottery as in London . |
| 12 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |
| 13 | She wondered if she had been as particular when she 'd lived here . |
| 14 | He had been as surprised and chagrined at her choice as he had at the prospect of taking up a new job with an unknown PA , but there had been an additional and more disturbing reaction . |
| 15 | Perhaps more of us would have accepted that marriage was not necessarily a licence for eternal happiness if those in the position to influence us — such as agony aunt Marje Proops — had been as honest as Mr and Mrs Toye . |
| 16 | All four of the Titford brothers of this generation were in their early twenties on their wedding day — a reflection in itself of the fact that the average age at marriage for men was falling as the century wore on ; that average in the early 1700s had been as high as twenty-seven . |
| 17 | It was not surprising that Benny had been as excited as a hen walking on hot coals all summer long , never able to keep still , always jumping up with some further excitement . |
| 18 | But Lamprey had been as courteous as if she had been in her father 's drawing-room . |
| 19 | They told me that the girl 's father had been as coy as any nineteenth-century English maiden . |
| 20 | Yet , if Souness had been as rational during the game , Spurs might not have won their first League match in six weeks . |
| 21 | Their political campaign had been as ineffectual as their terrorist ‘ outrages , ’ which had harmed no one but the odd insurance firm . |
| 22 | That was how I heard Old Red had been as angry as Sister over the Charlie Peters affair , and had said as much to Dr Jones . |
| 23 | The spirited young woman who had been as eager for life as he was ? |
| 24 | But despite the fact that the man had been as good as his word , providing ample funds for the trip , the more Gentle returned to the conversation in memory , the more that first response — suspicion — was reawoken . |
| 25 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 26 | Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | Of Cooper 's other favourites , Klee 's 1927 pen ‘ Blume und Früchte ’ ( a gift to Cooper from the artist 's widow ) sold to Heinz Berggruen for $70,000 ( £38,900 ) ( est. $25–35,000 ) , an entirely appropriate outcome as Berggruen had been as devoted to Picasso as Cooper was . |
| 28 | When Diana 's sister Sarah enjoyed a nine-month long relationship with the Prince of Wales she had been as formal . |
| 29 | No matter how poor the programming , if these dishes had been as glossy and futuristic as compact discs , say , then they might have caught on as rapidly as , well , CDs themselves . |
| 30 | Monday afternoon in the House of Commons had been as great a triumph for him ( although he had said practically nothing ) as it had been a disaster for Churchill . |