Example sentences of "[adj] as have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ideal osmotic control for ethanol is distilled water and not hypertonic glucose or saline as has been used in some studies . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The effect of this change has not been as dramatic as had been feared . |
| 6 | Unless , therefore the guarantee was void as having been made for an illegal consideration or voidable on the ground of economic duress , the extrinsic evidence establishes that it was supported by valid consideration . |
| 7 | Recent work on the interwar period has disputed that the plight of the peasantry even at this difficult time was as disastrous as has been claimed . |
| 8 | From this standpoint it may be doubted whether the present image of nationalism is quite so unfavourable as has been claimed . |
| 9 | Its understood that announcement is not as imminent as has been suggested . |
| 10 | In fact , however , our knowledge here is not so deficient as has been imagined . |
| 11 | The cuts , although severe , were not as drastic as had been expected . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |