Example sentences of "as it [adv] had be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was still as mellow and welcoming as it ever had been but now the pine panelling was softly golden , gleaming with wax polish . |
| 2 | Life was the same as it ever had been . |
| 3 | just as it always had been . |
| 4 | The third leg of the 1948 tripartite structure to the NHS was the community health service administered , as it always had been , by local authorities and hence financed like any other local service partly by central government grant and partly out of local revenue — the rates . |
| 5 | It was straight , as it always had been , no bias to the left , no bend at all . |