Example sentences of "be as [adj] as it has " in BNC.

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1 Though the overall level may not have been as spectacular as it has in years past , the show has built itself quite a substantial following , and most dealers reported ‘ okay ’ business .
2 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 ! ’
3 It seems that the outlook for smaller businesses may not now be as bleak as it has been so recently . ’
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 His anatomising of male desire is as sure as it has ever been .
7 The South Bank Show is as good as it has ever been — serious , humane and unstuffy — though its theme tune now sounds is beginning to sound jolly dated .
8 ‘ We are interested but that 's as far as it has gone because Alex Ferguson has shown no desire to let him go , and that 's despite the fact that Neil has not been in his first team .
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