Example sentences of "as [pron] have [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was seated next to Professor St John Goth , as I had been on the previous night ; Dominic and Lee were opposite , and Mr and Mrs Maclean from Stirling were on my right . |
| 2 | As I had been on the medical side since he came back , this was the first time he had spoken to me , or probably seen me . |
| 3 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 4 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 5 | I think I was then as near to hysteria as I have been in the whole of my life . |
| 6 | Unlike Pete he smelled nice — Sally thought it was Old Spice — and when he pressed his hips against hers she was excited by the sensations it aroused , not revolted as she had been with the Teddy Boy at the youth club dance . |
| 7 | She would n't be as easy to vanquish as she had been outside the Feelgood Saloon . |
| 8 | Theda had hardly heard her , overwhelmed as she had been by the thoughtfulness of the unknown gentleman . |
| 9 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 10 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 11 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |
| 12 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 13 | Here , in the region , there had been as much talk of Stokoe 's stars in the Wembley build up as there had been of the side Malcolm Crosby led out against Liverpool . |
| 14 | There were no major artists on Virgin whose sensibilities were likely to be offended as there had been at the Pistols ' previous stopovers ; no American parent company to interfere . |
| 15 | There was no shrub and palm cover bound by creepers as there had been in the rain forest so that the track was little protected from the squalls that struck up the mountainside , screeching like banshees , as they bowed the slender treetrunks almost to the ground . |
| 16 | Nor was there the usual rise in ammonia or nitrite levels , as there had been in the past . |
| 17 | Clearly there were as many flaws in the current version of the Big Bang Theory as there had been in the Steady State Theory . |
| 18 | There remained in the polytechnics ( as there had been in the former teacher training colleges ) lecturers who , having experience of teaching in primary schools , acknowledged the importance of approaching teacher education in a broader , more holistic way . |
| 19 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 20 | erm there are a lot of social needs that remain unmet , and meeting those needs would generate more employment , but in many areas of the economy I do n't think there 's so much need for work as there has been in the past , especially as we 're applying new technologies that increase productivity dramatically . |
| 21 | They 're saying , ‘ Recognise us or there will be war , as there 's been in the rest of the former Yugoslavia . ’ |
| 22 | Delegates are still addressed as brother , sister , or comrade , but this year there are electronic signs in the hall giving the speaker 's name — as there have been at the Conservative conference for quite a while . |
| 23 | The implication is that such conflicts as there have been in the past were merely the result of misunderstanding . |
| 24 | They could be expected to be as obedient to the workers as they had been to the capitalists . |
| 25 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 26 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 27 | They were located above the centre of the road instead of being drawn out to one side , as they had been for the trams . |
| 28 | But the South African Rugby Board and the South African Rugby Union continued to get bogged down , as they had been for the last three years , even with the help of intermediaries of the stature of Nelson Mandela , in their attempts to reach accord and form one , united body for rugby football in their country . |
| 29 | Bales had been arranged for the jury as they had been on the night of the fire . |
| 30 | The questions posed by the existence of the asylums thus remained as unanswered at the end of these closures as they had been at the inception of their planning in 1978 , when NETRHA officers too were also beginning the difficult task of addressing them . |