Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some areas of Scotland , the rise has been as much as 35 per cent . |
| 2 | The progress has been as dynamic , and certainly more precise , than anything produced by those great painters . |
| 3 | I am always in my very best spirits , for my heart has been as light as a feather ever since I got away from all that humbug ; and , what is more , I have become fatter . |
| 4 | Let us suppose that a Government , a party , observing that the rate of increase of the national income has been as high as 3 per cent in real terms over the last few years , were to decide to make plans which involve the growth of public expenditure at the rate of 2and1/2 ; per cent , so as to be a little within the recent happy experience . |
| 5 | Worse still , by the end of May there were indications that for the first time German losses might be exceeding those of the French ; within a week one completely new brigade had been as good as wiped out . |
| 6 | The result had been as fresh-faced and direct as Hogarth 's Shrimp Girl and when the Queen was persuaded to choose Moynihan as the portraitist of Princess Elizabeth , she wanted the same quality as that found in Private Clarke . |
| 7 | England 's batting in this Test has been as dodgy as the plate of prawns which ruled out captain Graham Gooch . |
| 8 | Yet no election campaign has been as unctuously hostile to wealth as the Labour one of 1992 in justifying its policies about the poll tax , the health service , education , and national and local taxation ; and nothing in the public packaging operation left any reason to suppose the Labour Party had abandoned the assumptions of the 1960s . |
| 9 | No other competitor in any sport has been as consistently good or as unfailingly good natured . |
| 10 | " Then Prince Rainbow saw that El-ahrairah had been as good as his word , and that he himself must keep his promise too . |
| 11 | If only that bloody dry cleaner had been as inefficient as most of them usually were . |
| 12 | Their political campaign had been as ineffectual as their terrorist ‘ outrages , ’ which had harmed no one but the odd insurance firm . |
| 13 | The swerves in economic management have been as much his as Mr Lamont 's . |
| 14 | Rose Brady 's attention had been as unexpected as it had been sudden and welcome . |
| 15 | That was how I heard Old Red had been as angry as Sister over the Charlie Peters affair , and had said as much to Dr Jones . |
| 16 | This three-CD retrospective of his solo output is a timely reminder that his career has been as interesting for its disasters as its triumphs . |
| 17 | They told me that the girl 's father had been as coy as any nineteenth-century English maiden . |
| 18 | Her own father had been as much of a weakling as her husband subsequently became ; Gustave supplanted him . |
| 19 | He too , it seemed in his more envious moments , could easily have become an officer and a gentleman , if only his father had been as wealthy as Dysart 's , if only he had applied himself to his studies at Commonweal , if only … . |
| 20 | Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | Their coupling had been as quick and inevitable as that of the two horses , and although Cora-Beth had cried out once in momentary pain , she had professed herself entirely happy and not in the least guilt-ridden by their union . |
| 22 | His performances on television have been as varied as Freud , and as Blott in Tom Sharpe 's Blott on the Landscape . |
| 23 | But despite the fact that the man had been as good as his word , providing ample funds for the trip , the more Gentle returned to the conversation in memory , the more that first response — suspicion — was reawoken . |
| 24 | In December 1990 the Syrian government had been as active as ever , encouraging the gathering in Damascus of a ‘ joint action committee ’ of familiar names — Hojjatoleslam Hakim , the Kurdish leaders Barzani and Talabani , and also Brigadier-General Naqib , in Syria since the early 1980s . |
| 25 | If his own life had been as full he too could have dispensed with food . |
| 26 | The transmat journey had been as brief , uneventful and nauseating as she had expected . |
| 27 | His voice had been as faint as the whisper of a breeze against silk . |
| 28 | He was the younger of the twin Beaumont brothers , sons of the elder Robert who had been one of the most reliable props of old King Henry 's firm rule , and they in their turn had been as staunch in support of King Stephen . |
| 29 | The rush-hour traffic in the city centre had been as thick as a plate of home-made porridge ! |
| 30 | Collins ' form has been as stable as his club 's progress has been erratic this season and the player feels he should have represented his country more often than he has done . |