Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 2 | If Richard Herrnstein ( ’ IQ encounters with the press ’ , 28 April , p 230 ) has been treated as shabbily as he says by American newspapers , that is unforgivable . |
| 3 | A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " . |
| 4 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 5 | These syllabuses have been developed as far as possible in common with the HND in Business Studies . |
| 6 | Extra-Statutory Concession D2 has also been amended as far as an individual is concerned so that it does not apply to a settlor of a resident or non-resident " settlor-interested " settlement . |
| 7 | A Steamship Owners ' Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association had been formed as early as 1874 which later became part of a North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association , and as early as 1878 shipowners of the north-east were complaining of the " tyrannical " attempts of a " dictatorial body of unionists " ' to impose demands on the industry , establishing in 1885 a Central Association of Shipowners of Sunderland , Glasgow and Newcastle to put their views to the Royal Commission of 1886 on Chamberlain 's proposed Shipping Bill . |
| 8 | It had been forgotten as quickly as it had begun . |
| 9 | Such arrangements have for some time been permitted so long as clients are fully informed of the nature of the company and the profits go to the firm . |
| 10 | A Security Council vote to enforce its no-fly zone declaration had been expected as early as yesterday but it was postponed because of arduous negotiations over a final text , including the grace period before shoot-down or other orders could be issued . |
| 11 | Some of these matters clearly fall within the ‘ good neighbour ’ concept , ’ while others are based on the principle that compensation is not to be paid merely because maximum exploitation has been prevented so long as development of a reasonably remunerative character is allowed . |
| 12 | So far all the preparations had been made as discreetly as possible , under cover of darkness , but now the moment he most dreaded was approaching , the moment when the sepoys would realize that a retreat was taking place and would launch their attack . |
| 13 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 14 | For although Cabezón 's compositions first appeared in print in Luys Venegas de Henestrosa 's Libro de cifra ( figure notation ) nueva para tecla ( keyboard ) , harpay vihuela ( Alcala , 1557 ) , and the rest of them only in the Obras de musica published posthumously by his son ( Madrid , 1578 ) , no doubt many had been written as early as the lute pieces in Narvaez 's Delphin de musica ( Valladolid , 1538 ) . |
| 15 | The condition of many villages points to depopulation , but , although Sezincote had been enclosed as early as 1486 , the region as a whole was ‘ remarkably free ’ of depopulating enclosure . |
| 16 | The house had been cleaned as well as was possible . |
| 17 | Because in it , through a slit in the curtains which had been drawn as incompetently as everything else about the house had been done , a heavy man could be seen , in winceyette pyjamas , red-faced and gesturing angrily . |
| 18 | Some of that deal has been produced as far as the Tornado 's concerned , but again you 're quite right we 're waiting for the announcement of the er orders for the trains . |
| 19 | It had been used more recently as well , during the Darul Islam revolutionary uprisings of the 1960s , when the bodies of execution victims were flung into the cave . |
| 20 | Strictly visual language to make scientific points had been used as early as 1555 by Pierre Belon in his Oiseaux , where he put the skeleton of a man and a bird side by side to demonstrate their unity of plan , or homology . |
| 21 | The Football League had been founded as recently as 1888 , with its base firmly in the North and Midlands . |
| 22 | Arrival had been noted as early as 27 February ( 1971 ) , however , and some passage continues until mid-May . |
| 23 | Autumn arrival has been noted as early as 10 July , but usually starts in late October , and passage has been noted in November . |
| 24 | The company sees the service as a natural complement to NetWare 4.0 directory services — which have been based as far as possible on the X500 standard . |
| 25 | The interactions between modifying enzymes and tRNAs have not yet been characterized as extensively as those between tRNA and aminoacyl-tRNA-synthetases ( 4 ) . |
| 26 | In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species . |
| 27 | The stone had been raised high just as Wexford was raising it now but brought down that time on the back of Hatton 's skull . |
| 28 | But whatever its humble origins , when the new word was picked up by the newspapers in August 1898 it was quickly transformed into a term of more general notoriety , so that ‘ Hooligan ’ and ‘ Hooliganism ’ became the controlling words to describe troublesome youths who had previously been known more loosely as ‘ street arabs ’ , ‘ ruffians ’ or ‘ roughs ’ . |
| 29 | How rich it is to hear the Scottish Labour leader impugn the integrity of the SNP when the integrity of Labour Party policies in the last year has been stretched so far as to be invisible . |
| 30 | In the hon. Gentleman 's constituency , the time taken is being reduced , although it has not been reduced as fast as we should like . |