Example sentences of "[adj] as it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he spoke , his voice not quite as calm as it had been previously , the accent humming roughly in the depths of the tones . |
| 2 | Improvement ensued under Tub LM1 ( again taken from a 5ml dropper bottle ) although the patient commented that the wheeziness was n't as clear as it had been on the first Phosphorus . |
| 3 | Higher than its current rate of 1.8m ( 6.2% ) , but probably not as high as it had to in the mid-1980s . |
| 4 | Although the number of recorded offences in that decade was not as high as it had been in the 1950s it is nevertheless an important trend . |
| 5 | ‘ All groups have said we will review it in September and there is a general feeling that the charge should not have been set as high as it has been . ’ |
| 6 | and it 's going to be a record , simply a record of erm , English as it 's spoken in nineteen ninety one , I 've got a little blurb on it which I 'll show you . |
| 7 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 8 | Nor could the academic organization of the schools remain as rudimentary as it had been : communication and management would not just ‘ happen ’ in schools of a thousand pupils or more , and the stream of curriculum innovation needed to be carefully channelled — especially in a system where each school enjoyed considerable freedom in choosing patterns of study and teaching methods . |
| 9 | Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been . |
| 10 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 11 | Monarchy became itinerant as it had not been since the Middle Ages , but the reason for this was not administrative but political and diplomatic . |
| 12 | Considerably more work will be required to investigate this possibility , but it is particularly intriguing as it has been suggested that sorghum and millet were domesticated somewhere in the African savannah zone . |
| 13 | dying as it has done on other nights |
| 14 | In many ways I was greatly relieved as it had become obvious to me that he was n't well . |
| 15 | But at least a dream of empire was not as impossible as it had been in 1558 . |
| 16 | SOON THEY BECAME VERY MUCH AS IT HAD BEEN BEFORE THEIR separation , except that Gina was a little more violent . |
| 17 | Unemployment problems put paid to Labour 's political prospects in the early 1930s just as much as it had helped the party to rise to political power in the 1920s . |
| 18 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 19 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 20 | The game exploded into life very much as it had done in Glasgow . |
| 21 | And the tone of the voice seemed to surprise Sister Aloysius as much as it had done the Mother Superior . |
| 22 | The announcement came as no great surprise ; except in as much as it had been thought the family might hold back in the lifetime of Sir John . |
| 23 | It fitted her in as much as it had ever fitted anyone , but the bodice hung droopily over her breasts , and the neckline gaped softly round her throat , and the hem dipped at the back , with a scarcely perceptible , ineradicable dip . |
| 24 | Her own strong and unthinking rejection of him had shocked her as much as it had shocked him . |
| 25 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 26 | For , proving that he cared for his family every bit as much as it had seemed , he said , ‘ Hello , Travis , come in . |
| 27 | If Guardian members receive an average £520 for giving the nod to a plan to allow their society to remain a mutual — and to continue operating much as it has since the turn of the century — what price a vote to convert ? |
| 28 | The centre of the village is still much as it has always been , with an attractive pond , complete with swans , surrounded by the school , chapel and public house ( named appropriately the Swan and Cygnet ) . |
| 29 | as much as it has there we look like getting . |
| 30 | For about four centuries the rulers of England had been trying to conquer and rule France , Scotland , and Ireland , but they had just lost their last foothold in France at Calais , their position in Ireland was as insecure as it had ever been , and the Scottish problem had taken an altogether new turn because Mary the Queen of Scotland could present a good claim to the English throne . |