Example sentences of "[verb] been as [adj] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Few , however , will have been as well-prepared for this as Don Cruickshank , the ; new director-general of the telecommunications regulator , Oftel , who has come to the post after three years as the first-ever chief executive of the National Health Service in Scotland where public controversy , as he put it , ‘ is part of the job ’ . |
| 3 | Last night 's lovemaking had changed everything for Sarella herself ; she had never guessed it could be like that , and she could n't imagine that it might not have been as earth-shattering for Marc too . |
| 4 | There were some mornings , Monday mornings in particular , when it would have been as quick for him to walk to the main gates and then catch an internal minibus to his office block . |
| 5 | And in 1944 when Cole wrote his book as part of the Movement 's centenary tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers , when Consumers ' Co-operation could still look back on many decades of unbroken success , it would have been as natural for him to suppose that the Pioneers had in this respect been mistaken and that their mistake stood in need of explanation . |
| 6 | Tom Gower from Southport , though , seemed to have been as anxious for reassurance as he was to express solidarity . |
| 7 | The spirited young woman who had been as eager for life as he was ? |
| 8 | And it 's been as bad for staff as inmates . |