Example sentences of "have [adv] been as " in BNC.
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| 1 | For B&O , form has long been as important as function , allowing it to avoid the open-sandwich school of Danish design . |
| 2 | ‘ No doubt business is better than last year but it has not been as good as many people suggested it might be , ’ he said . |
| 3 | However , although the WDA has remained , it has not been as interventionist in terms of urban policy as has the SDA . |
| 4 | Food costs have been high in the past because Fred has not been as efficient as he might have been ( he certainly seems to have neglected his record-keeping ! ) , and his action in letting Chrissie take the food was motivated by his resentment at being demoted . |
| 5 | Although data and voice transmission lines are moving gradually towards the 144Kbits per second Integrated Services Digital Networks specification , the report believes that ISDN has not been as successful as many pundits believed it would be . |
| 6 | Although data and voice transmission lines are moving gradually towards the 144Kbits per second Integrated Services Digital Networks specification , the report believes ISDN has not been as successful as many pundits believed it would be . |
| 7 | The effect of this change has not been as dramatic as had been feared . |
| 8 | In spite of these impressive results , progress in finding other examples of neurons with highly selective trigger features has not been as rapid as was hoped . |
| 9 | I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead . |
| 10 | But though Venus does not seem to be geologically moribund it seems likely that it has not been as geologically active as the Earth and that no global system of Plate Tectonics has ever developed . |
| 11 | Although OS/2 can run DOS ( and in turn DOS applications ) it has not been as widely accepted in Europe as it has in America . |
| 12 | Therefore , the Minister has not been as generous as he pretends . |
| 13 | The commercial application of expert systems in the UK has not been as widespread as was originally anticipated . |
| 14 | Table 6.9 Sterling commercial paper The development of the market has not been as rapid or as extensive as in many other European countries . |
| 15 | In 1850 Nesselrode expressed the view that " Russia 's position and that of her Sovereign has not been as attractive or as powerful since 1814 " . |
| 16 | Environmental pollution in the Gulf has not been as extensive as feared , according to a survey by a team from the Monaco-based Marine Environment Laboratory , an arm of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) [ see also ED 62 ] . |
| 17 | Erm it perhaps has n't been as major as as people might er have thought it should be . |
| 18 | It has n't been as difficult as I thought it would be , so far … but I 'm determined not to have another smoke . |
| 19 | It has previously been as high as 60p , and should rocket . " |
| 20 | One gain might come from the elimination of the discount in Gencor 's share price as compared with the total value of its subsidiaries — a discount that has recently been as high as 4 billion rand . |
| 21 | Paradoxically , the Pentagon has never been as preoccupied as the State Department with the vagaries of General Noriega . |
| 22 | It 's been an ever-present feature in PFK — but has never been as large , colourful , or as popular as at present — number one in almost every reader survey of the past few years . |
| 23 | Up to winning ‘ New Faces ’ , you 'd only been as far as the Isle of Man and considered yourself well-travelled . ) |
| 24 | Werewolf stayed upright , but then he 'd never been as close to him as I had . |
| 25 | I have n't been as far down there , I 've only been as far as the doctor 's surgery , down that road . |
| 26 | Twenty-eight days later they were back — they had only been as far as Mugu . |
| 27 | The disappearance had naturally been as much a mystery to him as anyone else … |
| 28 | He said 3i had always taken a long-term view and had not been as badly hit by the recession as the banks had because it had been cautious . |
| 29 | It was the final proof that perhaps , after all , she had not been as inferior to her sister as she had imagined . |
| 30 | ‘ I know that if Wyn had not been as strong as she has , then I would not be here today . ’ |