Example sentences of "been as [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She had always been as strong as the lioness Candy would insist on comparing her to . |
| 2 | aye , he 's been as dry as a bone |
| 3 | If this behaviour represents a national trend then the influence of these guidelines on the sample doctors ' behaviour may not have been as pronounced as the study suggests . |
| 4 | Lately he 's been as touchy as a bitch on heat . |
| 5 | Exactly when , we do n't know , it may have been as late as the thirteenth century before it cut its way through . |
| 6 | For two seasons , against Five Nations and World Cup opposition , the Irish scrum has been as solid as a rock . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We do not know how long he stayed in Paris — it could have been as long as a decade . |
| 9 | I should have been as timid as the girl herself , if she had looked at me ! |
| 10 | Even the weather co-operated , but could not have been as warm as the welcome extended to us by staff and students . |
| 11 | But what he said about the role technology would play in the war seems to have been as accurate as the laser-guided bombs shown on television . |
| 12 | The diagnoses of Britain 's problems have been as varied as the problems themselves . |
| 13 | They would have the fire brigade round in a few moments if the external noise had been as loud as the internal one . |
| 14 | His voice had been as faint as the whisper of a breeze against silk . |
| 15 | All at once one of the birds — it seemed enormous to the child , but may well have been as small as a sparrow — flew into the air and fluttered past the pushchair , its wings actually brushing the little girl 's face . |
| 16 | The date of the demise of the military arsenals is not known , although it could have been as early as the late third century . |
| 17 | Up to winning ‘ New Faces ’ , you 'd only been as far as the Isle of Man and considered yourself well-travelled . ) |
| 18 | I have n't been as far down there , I 've only been as far as the doctor 's surgery , down that road . |
| 19 | In his absence she 'd been as nervy as a wildcat , jumping a mile every time someone spoke to her or touched her on the shoulder , expecting him to turn up out of the blue as he 'd made a habit of doing . |
| 20 | In fact , the effect on all forms of life may well have been as devastating as the ‘ nuclear winter ’ which will occur should the nations of Earth ever engage in a nuclear war . |
| 21 | The making of Archbishops of Canterbury has been as various as the making of Popes . |
| 22 | Of course , the NME has consistently only really been as good as the contemporary music , film etc it celebrates and criticises , and remains a decent barometer , despite the sporadically desperate-seeming attempts to apply bellows to no more than a small flame . |
| 23 | Not that he had ever been as poverty-stricken as the poor fellow in the film . |
| 24 | Paradoxically , the Pentagon has never been as preoccupied as the State Department with the vagaries of General Noriega . |
| 25 | 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 — |
| 26 | He told me he had been a sailor , had known the bitter odour of disease and been a casualty in the wars of the elements , but nothing had been as dire as the loss of his woman to another . |
| 27 | England 's batting in this Test has been as dodgy as the plate of prawns which ruled out captain Graham Gooch . |
| 28 | She might not have been as glamorous as the great vessels loaded with equally glamorous cargo , but she was just as important in her own way . |
| 29 | Despite some internal controversies , reformist Eurocommunism has been as instrumentalist as the revolutionary Leninism which it rejects . |
| 30 | I am grateful for the Minister 's reply and I know that she will have been as horrified as the rest of us by the images and the conflict that was reported from Somalia last weekend . |