Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] be [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landscape he rode through was as white as a desert . |
| 2 | Up to winning ‘ New Faces ’ , you 'd only been as far as the Isle of Man and considered yourself well-travelled . ) |
| 3 | ‘ We wanted a quiet wedding and decided today was as good as any . ’ |
| 4 | In this section we summarize our findings on what we termed ‘ Teachers Teaching Together ’ or TTT — a label we introduced as being as neutral as possible and free of the particular value-orientations of ‘ team ’ or ‘ collaborative ’ teaching . |
| 5 | Mr Bleasdale said the pool was chosen because it had ‘ every facility known to man ’ and added the staff had all been very helpful as had the mothers and toddlers from the Colchester area employed as extras . |
| 6 | Twenty-eight days later they were back — they had only been as far as Mugu . |
| 7 | ‘ I know that if Wyn had not been as strong as she has , then I would not be here today . ’ |
| 8 | The superintendent was looking relieved that the incident had not been as bad as it might have been . |
| 9 | Mr Wilkinsion said he was pleasantly surprised that the loss of traffic had not been as bad as feared . |
| 10 | But Travis was shaking his head , and insisting that he had not been as enthusiastic as he might have been on Saturday . |
| 11 | She enjoyed nearly everything , even widow 's weeds perhaps most of all widow 's weeds , as her married life had not been as exciting as she might have wished , and besides , they were so graceful and pretty . |
| 12 | Swod pursed his lips with faint irascibility : his ‘ bon mot ’ about Mills had not been as conclusive as he hoped . |
| 13 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 14 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 15 | She had always been as strong as the lioness Candy would insist on comparing her to . |
| 16 | Not that he had ever been as poverty-stricken as the poor fellow in the film . |
| 17 | If she had really been as indifferent as she had pretended to be , then she would n't have reacted at all . |
| 18 | When she asked him if they had really been as beautiful as angels , he had told her abruptly to look at the portraits , just as now , sensing that she had been hounded out of the house , he had given her something to do , a task to occupy her hands and head . |
| 19 | The interview with Georg , too , while unpleasant , had n't been as terrible as Suzi had feared . |
| 20 | Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger . |
| 21 | It had n't been as bad as she had feared . |
| 22 | She was upset , but later reflected it had n't been as bad as it could have been . |
| 23 | Miss Fogerty had never been so happy as she was now , living with Dorothy and next door to another old friend , Isobel Shoosmith , who had been at college with her years before . |
| 24 | Tess had never been so happy as she was now , and perhaps never would be so again . |
| 25 | Ruth had never been as late as this . |