Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 2 | erm There always has been the situation since Derek Roberts retired , and in fact his post was put in the pollution section , where there was only one E H O , the agreement then that there would be a swap straight E H O for technician swap , but food had traditionally , as long as I 've been involved have three E H Os . |
| 3 | Companies with as strong a balance sheet as yours have been known to seek acquisitions er , in the midst of a very deep recession . |
| 4 | ‘ I think he 's just slipped out , ’ the girl said , as she had been instructed to do if ever Mr Downs presented himself . |
| 5 | Tavett grew annoyed when he realized she had already discussed it with the other two the previous evening as soon as she had been allowed to leave the police station . |
| 6 | She selected the first three pages — Lucy as she 'd been allowed to see her , and handed them over . |
| 7 | Far from reducing taxation , as we had been elected to do , we would have to raise it — and raise it at a time when local councils were already pushing up rates . |
| 8 | His tinnitus did not , as we had been led to believe , oblige him to spend the concert inside a perspex box ; he leapt across the stage , knees at 90-degree angles , for much of its three hour span . |
| 9 | Great chunks of it may require changes in Company policy and I assume that those are being investigated in the same way as we have been asked to comment . |
| 10 | Only essential lighting , radar , sonar and radio were functioning normally : all these could function equally well , as they had been designed to do , on battery power . |
| 11 | These maxima were subject to the proviso that ‘ in such shires and countries that where it hath been and is now used to give less wages , that in those shires and countries they shall give and the taker of the wages be compelled according as they have been used to take . |
| 12 | On the other hand there are a few techniques , frequently used in constructing proofs , to which it is perhaps useful to draw attention as they have been known to give students the occasional difficulty . |
| 13 | CHECK the castle is moored securely to the ground and never use it in high winds or wet weather as they have been known to slip over and wet slippery surfaces can be dangerous . |
| 14 | These authorities , be they judges , constitutional lawyers or senior political scientists , have come to this view as they have been forced to ponder on two things . |
| 15 | When privatised , the new plc was required to improve the river and the water supply as it had been hoping to do and had been prevented from doing . |
| 16 | Delaney 's tired brain had translated automatically , as it had been trained to do . |
| 17 | As it has been seen to touch upon every aspect of pupils ' lives , most particularly the emotional , English has become increasingly diffuse . |
| 18 | The " eyebrow flash " as it has been called has been found to occur in many widely different cultures . |
| 19 | And just as it has been designed to satisfy their requirements ( not always necessarily with equal success ) , they come to find themselves serving its interests . |
| 20 | The dean in his address expressed his pleasure in installing the new mayor , especially as he had been asked to serve as his chaplain during the mayor 's year of office . |
| 21 | Cunliffe admitted that his knowledge of Germany was inadequate and that his figure was ‘ little more than a shot in the dark as he had been pressed to arrive at it between a Saturday and a Monday ’ . |
| 22 | I barely remembered my uncle , as he had been killed rock-climbing when Dickie was a few months old . |
| 23 | It was patently obvious to Klepner , now that he had read the plan , that the European trade environment was not as he had been led to believe . |
| 24 | He assumed , as he had been led to believe at meetings with General Helmuth von Moltke immediately prior to the war , that Germany would at the outset deploy some eight corps in East Prussia . |
| 25 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 26 | They were of special interest to Mr Dalyell as he had been attempting to get more information from ministers about the sinking of the General Belgrano . |
| 27 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 28 | so as he 'd been trying to get through it was always engaged . |
| 29 | Will he get his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy to take action now , as he has been urged to do by the European Energy Commissioner , to stop pit closures in this country , given that we produce the cheapest deep-mined coal in the European Community ? |