Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have been as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Clerical gravamina had been as easily evaded or thwarted under Pecham and Winchelsey as they were under Reynolds . |
| 3 | The swerves in economic management have been as much his as Mr Lamont 's . |
| 4 | Their political campaign had been as ineffectual as their terrorist ‘ outrages , ’ which had harmed no one but the odd insurance firm . |
| 5 | If only that bloody dry cleaner had been as inefficient as most of them usually were . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Racist atrocity has been as much a part of the American experience of war as any other nation . |
| 8 | For two seasons , against Five Nations and World Cup opposition , the Irish scrum has been as solid as a rock . |
| 9 | They would have the fire brigade round in a few moments if the external noise had been as loud as the internal one . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the creation of our modern world-view , few periods of Western history have been as decisive as the hundred fifty years that followed the publication , in 1543 , of Copernicus 's sun-centered astronomy . |
| 13 | Despite some internal controversies , reformist Eurocommunism has been as instrumentalist as the revolutionary Leninism which it rejects . |