Example sentences of "[adj] have [be] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year the flags we have seen flown as ensigns by yachts purporting to be British have been as imaginative and various as they have been illegal . |
| 2 | Regularly presented as the principal policy medium for the resolution of these two problems , the impact of urban policy on either has been as minor as the significance they have had for the formulation and legitimation of policy has been major . |
| 3 | Indeed , last year it is likely to have been as high as 60 per cent . |
| 4 | Not all of these have been as successful as some of their proponents have claimed . |
| 5 | Pete had seen a fair number of valley mornings , although not so many had been as early as this . |
| 6 | And one of the problems that these folk had , and one of the problems we all have is as long as we think we 're all right , then we 're all wrong . |
| 7 | The flock are unlikely to have been as completely innocent as the latter suggests , and their guilt may well have had a secular aspect , for it might be doubted whether Cnut would have become involved with spiritual shortcomings . |
| 8 | Even the invitation to spend the weekend at Seaview ; that had been as insincere as all the rest . |
| 9 | That had been as grievous a thing as seeing the head triumph ; that had caused the centuries of religious persecutions and wars . |
| 10 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 11 | All four of the Titford brothers of this generation were in their early twenties on their wedding day — a reflection in itself of the fact that the average age at marriage for men was falling as the century wore on ; that average in the early 1700s had been as high as twenty-seven . |
| 12 | Dead Certain had been as badly affected as any , but Elsworth simply would not run a horse of that class in such a race unless he believed it was capable of giving of its best . |