Example sentences of "have [not/n't] [adv] be as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not always been as bad as in the past year or two , but this is not uncommon as-any form of fear or negativity feeds upon itself as time goes by . |
| 2 | She recognised that her son had not always been as attentive as expected towards his wife or the children and that he spent too much time with friends like Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 3 | Where such arbitrary holidays have been established in religion-tolerating countries , as additions to the religious feast days , they have not generally been as successfully absorbed into the holiday sequence as might be expected . |
| 4 | Despite the numbers of scientists involved , physical geographers have not perhaps been as prominent as they should have been in the investigation of the human impact upon soil systems . |
| 5 | They have not always been as humble as Balanchine in submitting to the dictates of the score as envisaged by the composer . |
| 6 | She 's very good to us , her elderly parents , even though I have n't always been as good a father as I should have been . |
| 7 | ‘ They have n't always been as poor as they are now , ’ asserted George , beginning to his surprise to feel the stirrings of loyalty or pity for the Dersinghams . |