Example sentences of "been [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nelly the Elephant ’ had just been chorus-interruptus as she was saying goodbye to the thingy , and a large girl in her mother 's dirndl skirt from IIIB was attacking the string round the paper with her teeth and pretending not to hear that the music had started again , when I felt the red drain out of my skirt and into my face . |
| 2 | ( Although Billy had undoubtedly been guilty as charged , the evidence against him had been largely manufactured , and none of his family had ever recovered from the injustice of this . ) |
| 3 | One ingenious convict , Alfie Hinds , sued a police officer for stating in the " News of the World " that Hinds had been guilty as charged . |
| 4 | Growing deafer , moreover , as they had certainly not been deaf as babies . |
| 5 | MR MICHAEL Howard , the Water Minister , yesterday effectively admitted that water shares have been underpriced as he formally closed the deadline for application amid City predictions that the issue will open at a premium of up to 30 per cent . |
| 6 | The specific policies and rhetoric have been different as the occasion demanded . |
| 7 | it came , it did it almost came to a halt again and it could 've been dangerous as well you , children in the back , two children in the back ! |
| 8 | Since then performance has been much as expected . |
| 9 | It shows San Carlo to have had a big nose and long ears , features which must have been real as they also appear in several portraits . |
| 10 | Few things in this house have been tiresome as |
| 11 | There , it has not so much been its Calvinism that has been welcome as its emphasis upon the inerrancy of Scripture . |
| 12 | It had been operational as Lancaster College of Technology since 1960 , conceived by the local authority in Coventry as a major institution , and had rapidly developed a reputation as such , expanding rapidly , and playing an important part in the committees and boards of the CNAA . |
| 13 | But Ian had been sick as well . |
| 14 | He had heard that the Feds at Lockerbie had been good as gold , working at the pace required , picking up on every small detail provided by the forensic team at Farnborough , where the 747 had been reconstructed . |
| 15 | Nigger was on leave from the navy and had been impressed as he watched Yanto hit a drunken sailor who had tried to grope a young girl . |
| 16 | Two kids I 'd got when I 'd been married as long as Hatton . |
| 17 | In fact , with any number of other writers , the circumstances of the appointment could well have been self-appraised as , ‘ Oh no , not more work . ’ |
| 18 | " Nico 's been happy as things are — were , " he added mournfully . |
| 19 | I ought to have been blind as well . |
| 20 | At Westbury , the canids are represented by a small wolf , which almost certainly included small mammals in its diet , but the felids present are large and could not have been important as accumulators of small mammals . |
| 21 | Also in Western European countries social and political impulses towards joining a trade union have been important as well as any individualistic evaluations of the relative economic benefits and costs of membership . |
| 22 | The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily . |
| 23 | We have n't seen much of each other while he 's been busy as England 's captain and I have served my South African Test ban . |
| 24 | I think I must have a drink , I 've been thirsty as well . |
| 25 | Ras Yemer had been renowned as one of Negus Mikael 's foremost captains . |
| 26 | Such standard spectra have been available as drawings for many years , and computer-compatible forms are now becoming available . |
| 27 | Patrick had been Chief Secretary to the Treasury in Ted Heath 's Government and had been successful as Secretary of State for both Social Services and Trade and Industry . |
| 28 | If it was merely voidable vis-à-vis the Hammonds , it can not have been void as against the building society . |
| 29 | Bill Clinton has been sworn-in as President of the United States pledging a new spirit of innovation . |
| 30 | Of course , the , the speeds would 've been higher as well . |