Example sentences of "[noun] as they have been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thorough overhaul of the educational process will ensure that standards remain as high in the future as they have been in the past . |
| 2 | But on 30 October the regents once more affirmed the rights of the Crown : they ordered Hugh de Neville , the Chief Justice of the Forest , to cause the royal forests to be kept by the same metes and bounds as they had been in the time of King John before the war between him and his barons . |
| 3 | But in addition , when they reached Lyons , the king 's messenger told Anselm that the king would not allow him to return to England unless he promised to observe the customs of the kingdom as they had been in the time of Rufus . |
| 4 | Modules were built in the early 1980s in much the same way as they had been in the late 1960s , with little technical or organizational change . |
| 5 | Another facet : a ribbed hall of towering , icon-stencilled machine tools , littered with corpses , many of them as grotesque in death as they had been in life … |
| 6 | Bright colours were no longer confined to the ‘ fun ’ shoe as they had been in the Seventies . |