Example sentences of "[art] [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 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 .
4 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 .
5 By the 1870s heating was done by Bunsen burners rather than furnaces ; and a laboratory which at the beginning of the century had been as good as any was now ‘ a mere makeshift ’ or a ‘ noble relic ’ .
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