Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the idea of closer political ties with England had first been mooted as far back as the late fifteenth century , by James III ; and even though it was then an extremely unpopular policy , it was an idea which never again quite went away . |
| 2 | The foundations of the Whitbread Hop Farm have been traced as far back as 1836 , when it was known as Beltring Farm . |
| 3 | Poisoning incidents have been registered as far back as 1842 . |
| 4 | Yet it is ironical that the most startling changes in industrial chemistry came in dyestuffs , because the fundamental discoveries in this field had been made as far back as 1857 by an Englishman , and England and France dominated aniline dye production until 1870 . |
| 5 | The parish had been enclosed as far back as 1761 — two generations earlier — but Alken 's view still gives a general impression of wide spaces and open views . |
| 6 | FitzGerald had been determined as far back as 1964 ( 1964 ; 1972 ) to make constitutional changes to those articles which appeared to alienate Northern protestant opinion . |
| 7 | In the spring of 1988 , the apparently moribund plan for rural systematization which had been heralded as far back as 1968 was suddenly taken up again . |