Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] as have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central importance attached to the inefficiency of labour markets is either so generally abstract as to have little or no practical application or so partial as to ignore the necessary interdependence between labour supply and a whole range of institutions . |
| 2 | In fact , however , our knowledge here is not so deficient as has been imagined . |
| 3 | Now the poor economies are known to be not so poor as had generally been supposed , more of them should be invited to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( whose membership is currently confined to the 24 ‘ industrial ’ countries ) or to attend the annual economic summit of the leaders of the G7 . |
| 4 | Schüssler Fiorenza has shown in an impressive way in In Memory of Her that women 's contribution to the life of the church was not so marginal as has often been assumed . |
| 5 | STEFFI GRAF 'S hopes of defending her Wimbledon title have improved after doctors revealed that her foot injury was not as serious as had been feared . |
| 6 | It would seem , however , that the demand for gift delivery of hardback books at a charge of £4.99 ( plus the price of the book , of course ) was not as great as had been hoped . |
| 7 | Members of the House of Commons ' Environment select committee have concluded that the rate of destruction of Brazilian rainforest is not as great as has been reported . |
| 8 | Its understood that announcement is not as imminent as has been suggested . |
| 9 | The cuts , although severe , were not as drastic as had been expected . |
| 10 | At the barrier at Gatwick , I was met by a friendly policeman who told me that the injuries were not as bad as had at first been thought , and that none of my family was in danger — news which immediately reduced me to tears . |
| 11 | Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m . |
| 12 | Some experts suggested that the damage resulting from the slick was not as severe as had first been assumed . |
| 13 | This is just as beneficial as having animal protein . |
| 14 | These results are important for plate tectonic theory because they show that the Earth is not currently expanding as has been suggested by a small minority of earth scientists , at least not at a rate which is significant compared with rates of plate motion . |
| 15 | From this standpoint it may be doubted whether the present image of nationalism is quite so unfavourable as has been claimed . |
| 16 | The analysis above indicates that getting the underlying structure right ( i.e. having an efficient firm organization ) is at least as important as having control over the firm 's prices directly . |
| 17 | Everyone likes fun and pretty things , but — having too many frocks must be almost as bad as having too few , and if you go out somewhere every day , and razzle every night , you would get stale . |
| 18 | ‘ It is very wrong to teach a five or six-year-old that to have two mummies is quite as right as to have a mummy and daddy , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Indeed , although the commons appointed as Speaker Sir Thomas Hungerford , who was Gaunt 's Steward of South Parts , they were not quite as docile as has sometimes been supposed . |
| 20 | Was it however so paradoxical as to have dealt a death blow to the theory ? |