Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] have in " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | My Department and the Secretary of State for Transport have already made submissions to the Commission that a standard high level of security — as high as we have in Britain — should be enforced across Europe . |
| 2 | Consumers were not choosing efficiency and manufacturers were not improving efficiency as much as they had in the past . |
| 3 | She stared , fascinated by the carpets on the floor and the brightly painted candles , and wondered why the Catholics lit candles too if both sides had hated each other as much as they had in her school history books . |
| 4 | Without the ERM , countries could competitively devalue their currencies : that would prove as inflationary in future as it has in the past , and it would give rise to the sort of trade frictions that plague the relationship between America and Japan , or worse . |
| 5 | There maybe societies where there is a privilege and inequality , but as long as we have in Britain a system where the head of the state , is head of state because the person inherited the position of being monarch and as long as we have a institution such as the House of Lords . |
| 6 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |
| 7 | She looked , McLeish observed , as immaculate as she had in the morning , but she was pale and her eyes looked huge . |
| 8 | same as you have in the |
| 9 | His hairline at that age was receding at the parting , giving every intimation that he might be bald one day ; not so , in the event — photographs of him as an older man show clearly that same hairline , looking very much the same as it had in the days of his youth . |
| 10 | To Nick 's left sat Colonel Beamish who was looking as sceptical and impatient as he had in the stewards ' room at Ascot , and Lord Chester , a wealthy landowner who had ridden as an amateur until recently . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As they parted , she pursed her lips and lifted her well-attended face , which did n't look quite so young as it had in the restaurant . |