Example sentences of "had been as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ryan had been as warm and as welcoming as his father . |
| 2 | They would have the fire brigade round in a few moments if the external noise had been as loud as the internal one . |
| 3 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |
| 4 | Monday afternoon in the House of Commons had been as great a triumph for him ( although he had said practically nothing ) as it had been a disaster for Churchill . |
| 5 | Their political campaign had been as ineffectual as their terrorist ‘ outrages , ’ which had harmed no one but the odd insurance firm . |
| 6 | She had been as long as 33–1 in the offices in the morning , opened 16–1 on course , before being sent off at 8–1 , and ironically it had been an eye-catching workout with the Luca Cumani-trained Red Slippers last week that convinced Bell that he had a worthy contender . |
| 7 | They had been as contented together as could have been expected , he supposed , from a union which had been largely one of convenience and accommodation ; and he would always remember , with a sort of perverse affection , her rather loud voice , her over-daubed war-paint — and , of course , the painful state of those poor feet of hers … |
| 8 | She had been as insignificant in appearance as all the other girls I had seen him with : as insignificant as I was myself . |
| 9 | Rosie , opening the mail , a task she no longer enjoyed , said it was impossible for Tavett to be guilty of sending the knives because he had been as upset as she was when one fell on his desk . |
| 10 | The defeat was severe , for the internationalist Left had been as strong in Finland as in Great Russia . |
| 11 | But the UN force in Namibia should have been up to handling the affair rather than turn the job over to the South Africans ; it would have been able to cope if it had been as strong as originally intended and deployed in good time with a decent plan in its knapsack . |
| 12 | But despite the fact that the man had been as good as his word , providing ample funds for the trip , the more Gentle returned to the conversation in memory , the more that first response — suspicion — was reawoken . |
| 13 | " Then Prince Rainbow saw that El-ahrairah had been as good as his word , and that he himself must keep his promise too . |
| 14 | By the 1870s heating was done by Bunsen burners rather than furnaces ; and a laboratory which at the beginning of the century had been as good as any was now ‘ a mere makeshift ’ or a ‘ noble relic ’ . |
| 15 | Worse still , by the end of May there were indications that for the first time German losses might be exceeding those of the French ; within a week one completely new brigade had been as good as wiped out . |
| 16 | Once , she had been as sporty as her brother . |
| 17 | He admitted that Ipswich had been as fortunate to beat Newcastle as they were to beat Wolves in midweek . |
| 18 | Pete had seen a fair number of valley mornings , although not so many had been as early as this . |
| 19 | Kicking the Sheraton cabinet quietly had been as far as he had ever gone in destructiveness . |
| 20 | The result had been as fresh-faced and direct as Hogarth 's Shrimp Girl and when the Queen was persuaded to choose Moynihan as the portraitist of Princess Elizabeth , she wanted the same quality as that found in Private Clarke . |
| 21 | Perhaps more of us would have accepted that marriage was not necessarily a licence for eternal happiness if those in the position to influence us — such as agony aunt Marje Proops — had been as honest as Mr and Mrs Toye . |
| 22 | They told me that the girl 's father had been as coy as any nineteenth-century English maiden . |
| 23 | His voice had been as faint as the whisper of a breeze against silk . |
| 24 | Jessamy had been as overwhelmed as he had been , dazzled by the physical passion , and amazed that her own easygoing , relaxed attitude to life could be turned upside down by this one man . |
| 25 | The programme , in retrospect , was practically science fiction : nothing had been as easy in practice as Tech-Green had declared in theory . |
| 26 | Yet , if Souness had been as rational during the game , Spurs might not have won their first League match in six weeks . |
| 27 | Whereas the recruitment of comfort women — some of whom had been as young as 12 years of age — had previously been acknowledged by Japan , no proof had previously been uncovered that the practice had been an official and systematically imposed policy . |
| 28 | To admit as much would be to admit he had been as negligent of her difficulties as anyone else . |
| 29 | Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | Wilson , his enemies suggested , had been as reckless with money as he had been in organising strikes which brought no advantage to his members . |