Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now . |
| 2 | The French settlements along the river St. Lawrence had no such attractions ; the peasant farmers who settled along the river were probably better off than if they had stayed at home , but they could not produce enough revenue to support the fairly lavish military , civil , and ecclesiastical establishment that had been set up there as well . |
| 3 | It was summer , and he walked around the beautiful gardens alone , admiring the beds of shrub-roses which had been laid out here as they had been in Josephine Bonaparte 's gardens at Malmaison . |
| 4 | The girl 's body had been laid out just as the others , and it had been the work of a moment to discover the tiny stab wound under the soft left breast . |
| 5 | The rebuilt barn had been laid out just as it was at the time of the fire in January last year . |