Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] has [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well , erm , I know the forecast is n't quite so brilliant as it has been , I think but |
| 8 | Previously frozen meat can be refrozen as long as it has been cooked , but do n't recook anything more than twice . |
| 9 | Previously frozen uncooked meat can be refrozen as long as it has been cooked , but do n't re-cook anything more than twice . |
| 10 | There have been Dylanologists almost as long as there has been a Dylan for them to write about . |
| 11 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |
| 12 | Breast milk from milk banks is safe as it has been pasteurized . |
| 13 | 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 ! ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Their influence on fiction , immense as it has been , is evidently only part of a larger pattern of social influence . |
| 16 | It seems that the outlook for smaller businesses may not now be as bleak as it has been so recently . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , the going will be slow tonight but erm not as slow as it has been in the past erm so it should be good . |
| 18 | Goody himself seems to suggest that ‘ restricted ’ literacy is indeed the norm in all societies except later classical Greece , thereby undermining somewhat the significance of these general applications of the term : ‘ Nowhere was the impact of literacy as radical as it has been in classical Greece . |
| 19 | The White Welsh today has black points , very like the White Park ; this is not surprising as there has been a close connection between the two and White Park bulls have quite often been used on Welsh cows . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |
| 21 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ said Owen , ‘ I think you may find that in future that party is not quite as strong as it has been . ’ |
| 22 | I mean today I 'm not gon na open me shopping on the bus but I mean it 's not nearly as bad as it has been |
| 23 | Hong Kong remains almost as uncompetitive as it has been at anytime since 1986 , and is far less competitive than a year ago . |