Example sentences of "it have [be] as " in BNC.

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1 However , it has been as captain that he has excelled ; as the record of his club 's ‘ Cinderella side ’ demonstrates — 12 wins , seven draws and only seven losses ( two of them against immeasurably senior opposition ) .
2 er , I must , I always claim the attendance allowance when it has been as executive , as I 've been the one member from Wiltshire attending .
3 Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject .
4 The dock was fenced off , but not the way it had been as a real dock , with real cargoes to steal .
5 It had been as if he came from another , alien world , beyond her experience or comprehension , a glamorous , glittering man who made her think of diamonds , so hard and sharp were the edges of his personality .
6 If he has been known at all to movie-goers thus far , it 's been as Spike Lee 's cinematographer : even when Lee 's brashness caused you to squirm in your seat , you still have something pretty marvellous to look at , and that 's Ernest Dickerson 's work .
7 Er which is the case unfortunately in er some instances with animals , but it 's been as you know perhaps at the R S P C A shelter just down the road there at er , but it 's gone now to a happy home in Derbyshire .
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