Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] as they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In no circumstances was the bulk of the Labour Party prepared to be allied with groups which were clearly not as influential as they had been in the past . |
| 2 | But nothing happened and Fenella felt a small , frail spiral of confidence and thought that the very suggestion that the Robemaker needed sentries at all indicated that he was not as all-powerful as they had feared . |
| 3 | During this period , the American 8th Air Force squadrons of Flying Fortresses and Liberators , many of whom were stationed near to us in the vicinity of Cambridge and Huntingdon , were doing daylight raids deep into Germany , and were rapidly finding out that it was not as easy as they had expected . |
| 4 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 5 | Lowndes found that management controls and stock levels were not as good as they had hoped . |
| 6 | There was also a growing body of opinion in Westminster and Whitehall amongst many of those who had initially welcomed Sandys ’ 1957 Defence White Paper , that his doctrine was not as sensible as they had first thought . |
| 7 | Both Phyllisia and Celie realised that the men they had feared were not as monstrous as they had thought . |
| 8 | It can come as a considerable shock when reality is forced upon them and their life on return is not as wonderful as they had anticipated . |
| 9 | Given the choice now , he wished the old holidays could be taken again , that things were not as different as they had become . |
| 10 | Maggie was shown into a very expensive flat that overlooked the river and she had one of her rare glimpses of the owner as he stood with his back to a roaring fire and regarded her through eyes that were just as sharp as they had ever been in his youth . |
| 11 | The rather frayed drapes , either side of the tall windows , had a silky sheen in the soft lamplight , the scratched furniture and the threadbare state of the rugs no longer as visible as they had been under the brilliant glare of the harsh overhead light . |
| 12 | That evening , at the Royal in Tipperary , John asked MacMinimum if that was really so — was the distress always as bad as they had seen it today ? |
| 13 | Even in the northern counties , Scottish raids were never as frequent or as deeply penetrating as they had been in Edward II 's reign , and although the inhabitants of those counties made the most of their plight in petitions for relief from taxation , the raids in the years after 1332 did little long-term damage to the region 's economy . |
| 14 | Some felt that they had mellowed already and that they were n't so active as they had been before . |
| 15 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |
| 16 | When my father tired of the pretence involved in this relationship ( for he was n't as weak as they had tacitly agreed ) he had hastened to the other extreme and married a woman who , as my mother was fond of remarking , you could pour into a jug . |
| 17 | Morrissey and the lads were apparently miffed that their last two singles were n't as successful as they had hoped . |
| 18 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 19 | The walls were no longer quite so solid as they had seemed , and each white-suited attendant seemed to conceal an assassin dressed in black . |
| 20 | But customers were no longer quite as wide-eyed as they had been when first faced by all this merchandise . |