Example sentences of "as [pron] have be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I was then as near to hysteria as I have been in the whole of my life . |
| 2 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 3 | Delegates are still addressed as brother , sister , or comrade , but this year there are electronic signs in the hall giving the speaker 's name — as there have been at the Conservative conference for quite a while . |
| 4 | The implication is that such conflicts as there have been in the past were merely the result of misunderstanding . |
| 5 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |
| 6 | Scoured as they have been by the turbulent and freezing sands that eroded every trace of fittings and furnishings whatsoever , their walls and ceilings do bear signs : remnants of incised and sometimes inlaid strings of rectangular shapes that numerous experts have confidently identified as writing , though no truly plausible translation has ever been constructed . |
| 7 | Although these areal units will alter less with time than administrative units , they are nonetheless transitory and so , ideally , smaller and more permanent units like kilometre grid squares should be used , as they have been by the OPCS in a limited fashion , as the basic building block . |
| 8 | Both the American and British governments are cloaking these new operations in a shroud of secrecy though it is unlikely any politician has the slightest idea what the two agencies are planning to do or that they even care if laws are broken as they have been in the past . |
| 9 | We pay attention to those salient features which are constitutive of the type of genre , and expect that the peripheral features will be as they have been in the past . |
| 10 | A thorough overhaul of the educational process will ensure that standards remain as high in the future as they have been in the past . |
| 11 | And erm so I do n't think the issues of affordable supply are quite the same as they have been in the past and I think it 's a very relevant consideration for this particular structure plan . |
| 12 | We need to recognise that some letters will take longer to answer that public loos will not be as fully attended as they have been in the past . |