Example sentences of "to have been as " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when Pound was principally a student of Provençal poetry , he appears to have been as good as his word , and to have travelled on foot over the terrain in question . |
| 2 | Tom Gower from Southport , though , seemed to have been as anxious for reassurance as he was to express solidarity . |
| 3 | But what he said about the role technology would play in the war seems to have been as accurate as the laser-guided bombs shown on television . |
| 4 | This is an interesting monument because the architect , Rodolfo Vantini , who completed the work in 1828 , wanted to get away from the conventional Roman triumphal arch , ( a decision said to have been as much due to the local inhabitants complaining that they did not want their view of the Lombardian Pre-Alps blocked as to any creative urge ) . |
| 5 | Indeed , incense-clocks appear to have been as extensively used by the Chinese as sundials and clepsydrae . |
| 6 | Certainly , as Wilson used it , it seems to have been as much an instrument of personnel management as one of Cabinet government . |
| 7 | The chinampas of central Mexico represent a most sophisticated form of wetland agriculture and the Veracruz raised fields do not seem to have been as elaborately built . |
| 8 | In east Germany and Prussia , for example , the peasant was not quite so poor as elsewhere , but he was disciplined to the estate by legal devices which seem to have been as powerful a stimulus to rural emigration as poverty . |
| 9 | In the process of definition the subdivisions of the gentry are shown to have been as numerous as those of the peerage ( which for the present purpose need not be set out in detail ) , and noticeably more complex . |
| 10 | While this seems to have been as true among Edinburgh printers as anywhere else , there are plenty of indications that it was possible , for girls or unmarried women at any rate , to join societies or practise hobbies . |
| 11 | Neither can the student unrest in Germany be said to have been as serious as it was in France . |
| 12 | In 1768 the reactions of the North East men seems to have been as short term as those of other areas . |
| 13 | the Third Rebuild turns out to have been as essential , as submissive to political and financial circumstances , as its predecessors . |
| 14 | the record of some of the institutional innovations which pluralists have suggested and which were created in the 1970s , do not appear to have been as successful in reducing military expenditure as pluralists have assumed they would . |
| 15 | It seems likely that there was a greater abundance of water in the past , though it is unlikely ever to have been as large as the abundance of water on the Earth . |
| 16 | Ideally , the golden spike ( or " marker point " as it is more prosaically called ) should be chosen in a section where sedimentation seems to have been as nearly continuous as is ever possible , where there are no marked lithological changes and where there are unbroken records of several different groups of fossils . |
| 17 | Indeed , last year it is likely to have been as high as 60 per cent . |
| 18 | The flock are unlikely to have been as completely innocent as the latter suggests , and their guilt may well have had a secular aspect , for it might be doubted whether Cnut would have become involved with spiritual shortcomings . |
| 19 | They stored it in massive casks said to have been as large as houses . |