Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly not every one of St Peter 's successors has been as appreciative of his work as they might have been . |
| 2 | In the more remote regions population losses have been as high as 10 per cent in many of the intercensal periods during the twentieth century ( Dunn 1976 ) . |
| 3 | The diagnoses of Britain 's problems have been as varied as the problems themselves . |
| 4 | THE MILITANT defenders of animals ' rights have been as active in Canada as in Britain . |
| 5 | In more recent times the functioning of Swedish industrial relations has been as much , if not more , dependent upon the centralisation of power within the employers ' confederation as upon the unions ' peak organisation . |
| 6 | And that leads the main question of this issue : would the girls have been as evil at the end ? |
| 7 | Other Hamlets have been as wrong-headed : Laurence Olivier 's of 1948 , perhaps , which charted ‘ the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind ’ , or Grigori Konzintsev 's Marxist version of 1964 . |
| 8 | Her hands had been as steady as a rock until David mentioned Donna 's birth , and Juliet 's on the same day , and Thorn House — |
| 9 | My client wonders if the police have been as thorough in their research as they seem to imply . |
| 10 | But if the pageboy William is talking , making noises , or turning paper napkins into darts , you could say , ‘ All the children have been as good as they could be , even little William ! ’ |
| 11 | No matter how poor the programming , if these dishes had been as glossy and futuristic as compact discs , say , then they might have caught on as rapidly as , well , CDs themselves . |
| 12 | Not all western reactions have been as chilly . |