Example sentences of "have be [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter is surprising since , in America , Urosalpinx is the southern species and Nucella the northern one and this observation may have been due as much to lowered salinity as to temperature . |
| 2 | The fact that such consideration , with any firm basis of likelihood , would have been impossible as little as 30 or even 20 years ago is an indication of the changing sexual climate in Britain . |
| 3 | The few models which have been developed to date may have been correct as far as they go but are clearly incomplete . |
| 4 | For example , Ambrose , Harper and Pemberton 's ( 1983 ) small study of men after divorce found that just over half their sample relied on parents and/or siblings for support , but they give little detail about the type of support offered and it may well have been practical as much as emotional . |
| 5 | The van Goghs must have been relieved as well as saddened when their rumbling volcano of a son departed . |
| 6 | Open consideration of sexual matters and casual reference to them have become possible to an extent which would have been unthinkable as little as a generation ago and which might have led to criminal — or lunacy — proceedings at the beginning of the century . |
| 7 | A hint that the fishery may have been active as early as 4200B.C. is offered by the serpent-like ornament of mother-of-pearl recovered from level V C at the site of Yahya in south Iran . |
| 8 | Among other ward staff , only one had been present as many as ten times . |
| 9 | During his time in the Army he had been exemplary as far as conduct in battle and general discipline were concerned , but he would not have been as traditional a British soldier as he was if he had n't stretched a principle or two during life in barracks . |