Example sentences of "[adj] as it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This as it stands is not an adequate explanation unless the result of the differentiation is that less skilled labour can now be used for machine operating . |
| 2 | Then he spoke , his voice not quite as calm as it had been previously , the accent humming roughly in the depths of the tones . |
| 3 | Improvement ensued under Tub LM1 ( again taken from a 5ml dropper bottle ) although the patient commented that the wheeziness was n't as clear as it had been on the first Phosphorus . |
| 4 | Although the number of recorded offences in that decade was not as high as it had been in the 1950s it is nevertheless an important trend . |
| 5 | ‘ All groups have said we will review it in September and there is a general feeling that the charge should not have been set as high as it has been . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nor could the academic organization of the schools remain as rudimentary as it had been : communication and management would not just ‘ happen ’ in schools of a thousand pupils or more , and the stream of curriculum innovation needed to be carefully channelled — especially in a system where each school enjoyed considerable freedom in choosing patterns of study and teaching methods . |
| 8 | Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Considerably more work will be required to investigate this possibility , but it is particularly intriguing as it has been suggested that sorghum and millet were domesticated somewhere in the African savannah zone . |
| 11 | But at least a dream of empire was not as impossible as it had been in 1558 . |
| 12 | SOON THEY BECAME VERY MUCH AS IT HAD BEEN BEFORE THEIR separation , except that Gina was a little more violent . |
| 13 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 14 | The announcement came as no great surprise ; except in as much as it had been thought the family might hold back in the lifetime of Sir John . |
| 15 | It 's tremendous as it 's been dry for 10 years . |
| 16 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |
| 17 | What made it worse was that his face remained so still , as expressionless as it had been earlier when discussing trivia with the Doctor . |
| 18 | From Table 4.1 we can see that the ‘ total working and available for work ’ in Northern Tyne side was roughly the same in 1984 as it had been in 1972 , i.e. under 300 000 . |
| 19 | Völker ideally combines the lyrical and the heroic in his singing , phrases with authority , albeit with a certain freedom where note values are concerned , and puts other contenders in the shade , even though by 1942 the voice was n't quite as pliant or firm as it had been six or seven years earlier . |
| 20 | The hands moved away , downwards , across the hard muscle of his stomach that was as tough and flat as it had been ten years ago , when he was eighteen . |
| 21 | The torrent here was almost as fearsome as it had been at the original crossing point , but not so deep . |
| 22 | Opposition to Home Rule was put on ice for the duration with the Bill , but opposition was as genuine in 1918 as it had been in 1914 . |
| 23 | This was quite as true when Tabitha Jute met Marco Metz in Schiaparelli as it had been in the days of the Big Step , years before she was born . |
| 24 | I enjoyed the gnocchi in a friendly watering hole along the road , however , and the Elban wine was just as good as it had been 30 years ago . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Well , erm , I know the forecast is n't quite so brilliant as it has been , I think but |
| 27 | A combination of administrative and economic factors favoured the revival of organized stealing during the final decade of British rule , but given the growth of population and the more efficient reporting system the extent of the crime was not as great as it had been before 1890 . |
| 28 | Previously frozen meat can be refrozen as long as it has been cooked , but do n't recook anything more than twice . |
| 29 | Previously frozen uncooked meat can be refrozen as long as it has been cooked , but do n't re-cook anything more than twice . |
| 30 | She was still very shaky and the journey , short as it had been , had tired her , but he had n't seemed to notice . |