Example sentences of "have been as " in BNC.
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| 31 | England 's batting in this Test has been as dodgy as the plate of prawns which ruled out captain Graham Gooch . |
| 32 | Collins ' form has been as stable as his club 's progress has been erratic this season and the player feels he should have represented his country more often than he has done . |
| 33 | Scotland 's success rate at Twickenham has been as elusive as the Chancellor 's green shoots of recovery : in 35 visits since 1911 , the Scots have enjoyed a mere four victories , with five matches drawn . |
| 34 | The progress has been as dynamic , and certainly more precise , than anything produced by those great painters . |
| 35 | In his absence she 'd been as nervy as a wildcat , jumping a mile every time someone spoke to her or touched her on the shoulder , expecting him to turn up out of the blue as he 'd made a habit of doing . |
| 36 | Taken as a whole , the cost of capital in Japan in 1988–93 will not have been as low as it seemed . |
| 37 | I should have been as timid as the girl herself , if she had looked at me ! |
| 38 | This may have been as much due to tradition as to limited supplies or tin . |
| 39 | Secondly , the reformed monasteries of the tenth century were of necessity largely aristocratic in composition , and had they been perceived to have no function in aristocratic society , they could not have been as successful as they were . |
| 40 | Had the recession been staved off for longer , support for the Scottish Nationalists — now at 31 p.c. in the polls and only seven points behind Labour — might not have been as strong . |
| 41 | We played dominoes with an old boy and his wife ; she was eighty , and if you 'd seen her puffing cigarettes and drinking strong ale , you 'd have been as dumbfounded as I was . |
| 42 | George Antonius suggested that the true statistic of starvation deaths in all Syria — including present-day Lebanon — may have been as high as 350,000 . |
| 43 | Field evidence ( D. J. Laming , pers. com. ) suggests it may have been as little as 2 or 3 km . |
| 44 | The extra pound a day for their film work did little to compensate for their tiredness which surely must have been as much due to under-nourishment as overwork . |
| 45 | Few sites can have been as intensively studied as this one , and indeed few sites are as amenable to exhaustive study as is a domestic garden . |
| 46 | Few , however , can have been as tragic as the case of the midwife toad ( Alytes obstetricians ) and its reverberations in the 1920s . |
| 47 | These differing responses , the fundamental cause of most of the wars of history , were not necessarily taken with a knowledge of the effect that they would ultimately have , for at the relevant time the choice would not have been as clear to those making them , as it would be to minds educated to standards prevailing centuries later . |
| 48 | You see , I would be teased a lot at school because I may not have been as quick as the others , but Bernard never joined in . |
| 49 | All at once one of the birds — it seemed enormous to the child , but may well have been as small as a sparrow — flew into the air and fluttered past the pushchair , its wings actually brushing the little girl 's face . |
| 50 | She married into the worst of Mother 's years , whereas I had the best , and I wonder if I 'd have been as unselfish as Lynda . |
| 51 | She reckoned there must have been as many as four hundred of them . |
| 52 | Scattered later evidence suggested that Wealden superstitions died hard ; indeed , it may have been as potent a force in determining local beliefs as organised Christianity at least until this present century . |
| 53 | Standing at the corner of Great Tower Street and Seething Lane , in the very shadow of the Tower of London , All Hallows must have been as impressive a building then as it is today : one of the oldest parish churches in the City , it has always had close links with the Tower itself , and was used as a place of burial for many an unfortunate wretch executed on the nearby scaffold . |
| 54 | It was an unhealthy enough place to be even at the best of times , swampy and malaria-ridden ; any Europeans trading there would have been only too aware of the risks involved , and the depleted crew of the Orynthia , overworked and probably ill-fed , must have been as vulnerable as they could possibly be . |
| 55 | The last apprehension may have been as much influenced by professional considerations as patriotic ones . |
| 56 | Ashi had no doubt the woman would have been as rapt at his polite charm and elegance as she herself had once been . |
| 57 | JUST a year ago , a journalist would have been as welcome at the opening meet of Prince Charles 's favourite hunt as Saddam Hussein at a Royal garden party . |
| 58 | In fact , the effect on all forms of life may well have been as devastating as the ‘ nuclear winter ’ which will occur should the nations of Earth ever engage in a nuclear war . |
| 59 | This was true , in a way , and his saying it made me sympathetic and tearful , but on the other hand I knew that if I had told him , his attitude would not have been as indulgent as he was pretending now . |
| 60 | ‘ It could have been as long ago as last Christmas , ’ he said . |