Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [pers pn] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed like an excellent opportunity to put himself to the test , see if his reflexes were as finely honed as they had been in the old days . |
| 2 | They explained that the meeting was cancelled and everyone dispersed as it had been confirmed that the government was about to arrest all strike leaders . |
| 3 | Theda had hardly heard her , overwhelmed as she had been by the thoughtfulness of the unknown gentleman . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Their hay would be fed as it had been cut , handful by handful , and should be enough with seaweed and oat straw to feed her till she was helped out in the spring . |
| 6 | GP fundholders are subject to a new set of perverse incentives which arise from the fact that in their case purchasing and providing roles are fused , not separated as they have been in DHAs . |
| 7 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 8 | Seated on the settee , she watched his face and realised that he was as moved as she had been . |
| 9 | French structuralism , applied as it has been to a wide range of intellectual disciplines , is a realization of Saussure 's dream of a general science of signs — semiology . |
| 10 | Determined to arrange a meeting to discuss it ( postponed as it has been from summer to autumn , autumn to December , December to ‘ early in the the New Year ’ and so on … ) , she rang the Scottish Office direct in an attempt to find out the proposed date of revelation and publication . |
| 11 | Ian was the best at making himself understood as he had been a Latin scholar . |
| 12 | But Spain would never again be as politically and economically isolated as it had been between 1945 and 1950 . |
| 13 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I could see my sister being nourished as I had been nourished , and I was demanding some sort of parity . |
| 16 | They think of their children 's warm squirming bodies and entreat that as they grow up they will not be hurt as they have been — ; |
| 17 | Indeed , introduced as they have been in a climate of manpower cuts by an allegedly insensitive senior management , the main effects of these developments may be to produce ‘ not just disgruntled employees ’ but also ‘ ineffective organisation ’ ( Plowden , 1985 , p. 410 ) . |
| 18 | The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy . |
| 19 | When I was approached to become a member of the group interested in ‘ the teaching of practical skills in biology ’ , I was only too pleased to become involved as I had been concerned , for some time , about my own teaching skills and strategies used in the classroom situation . |
| 20 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 21 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 22 | After a few years , the conclusion was reached that the experiment had not worked as it had been expected to , and cuts in educational spending soon brought it to an end . |
| 23 | This was n't supposed to happen — but then , nothing today had happened as it had been supposed to . |
| 24 | The climb had been no trouble to Harry , bred as he had been among the crags of Snowdon . |
| 25 | Hope smiled to himself : the smile broadened , and to disguise his true feelings he turned the smile on Mr Crump ; who was greatly encouraged as he had been talking about the slave trade on which much of his father 's great founding fortune had been based . |
| 26 | In Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 the restraint of trade clause was part of an agreement made between the parties after employment had ceased as it had been in Wyatt 's case . |
| 27 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
| 28 | Mr. Clark called the attention of the Board to the schools , and to the female side of the house as he was ‘ certain if the business is conducted as it has been , it is impossible to carry out the system … ’ . |
| 29 | Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) . |
| 30 | The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years . |