Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] [vb -s] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 2 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 3 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Gates would be happy to get his financial information from the quarterly report to shareholders — so long as he can be confident that the news will be as consistently good as it has been during Mr Shirley 's seven years in charge . |
| 5 | If our climate continues to be as mild as it has been for the last couple of winters we may yet challenge our French and German competitors ! ’ |
| 6 | The selection of documents to be saved for posterity is as essential as it has been for the last 30 years ; it is not so much that computers can not store everything ( storage capacities are continuing to develop exponentially ) , as the consideration that to conserve everything makes the past unmanageable and impenetrable . |
| 7 | Yes , the going will be slow tonight but erm not as slow as it has been in the past erm so it should be good . |
| 8 | Goody himself seems to suggest that ‘ restricted ’ literacy is indeed the norm in all societies except later classical Greece , thereby undermining somewhat the significance of these general applications of the term : ‘ Nowhere was the impact of literacy as radical as it has been in classical Greece . |
| 9 | Hong Kong remains almost as uncompetitive as it has been at anytime since 1986 , and is far less competitive than a year ago . |