Example sentences of "had been as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shirt had been as cleanly stripped from him as if he had never been wearing it , although his skin appeared uninjured . |
| 2 | Clerical gravamina had been as easily evaded or thwarted under Pecham and Winchelsey as they were under Reynolds . |
| 3 | Dead Certain had been as badly affected as any , but Elsworth simply would not run a horse of that class in such a race unless he believed it was capable of giving of its best . |
| 4 | Only a short time ago she had been as physically intimate with him as it was possible for a man and woman to be . |
| 5 | In important respects , however , his longing was a self-deception , a poetically fruitful means of expressing that sense of loneliness and isolation which had been as much a part of him in Ottery as in London . |
| 6 | Better to remember that he had called her sweetheart tonight , and it had been as much a sham as his kiss . |