Example sentences of "[adv] have been as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wicked episodes were often brought to my attention , but nothing either then or since has been as evil as the man Beck . |
| 2 | It would thus have been as applicable to a teacher , for example , as to a practitioner of any manual skill . |
| 3 | Even though the annual value of these rights could hardly have been as much as £100,000 a year , the Company was ready to outdo the Bank of England and the East India Company and take on £9½m. of the National Debt , which would have been about a quarter of the total outstanding after the Treaty of Utrecht . |
| 4 | If Jesus numbered such figures as Simon the Zealot and Judas the Sicarius among his followers , those followers can hardly have been as placid and peaceable as later tradition maintains . |
| 5 | It seems likely that there was a greater abundance of water in the past , though it is unlikely ever to have been as large as the abundance of water on the Earth . |
| 6 | There can never have been a field of research in which the likelihood that people would make similar discoveries almost simultaneously has been as great . |
| 7 | All at once one of the birds — it seemed enormous to the child , but may well have been as small as a sparrow — flew into the air and fluttered past the pushchair , its wings actually brushing the little girl 's face . |
| 8 | In fact , the effect on all forms of life may well have been as devastating as the ‘ nuclear winter ’ which will occur should the nations of Earth ever engage in a nuclear war . |
| 9 | He had it then , as clear as a map of a well-charted route unfolded on the captain 's table , what lay in store for him and for the settlement ; though the islanders had not burned wet leaves and swelled white smoke into a pillar of cloud to issue a warning , the signal might as well have been as clear . |
| 10 | She did n't quite , but what she did understand was that she hated this woman , and the thought momentarily came to her that that man would n't surely have been as bad as this mean-faced nun . |
| 11 | Kicking the Sheraton cabinet quietly had been as far as he had ever gone in destructiveness . |