Example sentences of "as there [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , in the region , there had been as much talk of Stokoe 's stars in the Wembley build up as there had been of the side Malcolm Crosby led out against Liverpool . |
| 2 | There was no volte-face here as there had been on religion . |
| 3 | There were no major artists on Virgin whose sensibilities were likely to be offended as there had been at the Pistols ' previous stopovers ; no American parent company to interfere . |
| 4 | There was no shrub and palm cover bound by creepers as there had been in the rain forest so that the track was little protected from the squalls that struck up the mountainside , screeching like banshees , as they bowed the slender treetrunks almost to the ground . |
| 5 | Apart from this , the Emperor was afraid that if the Duke de Montpensier , who was married to Isabella 's sister , became King there would be a civil war in Spain as there had been in 1830 , when ‘ a sister had dethroned a sister ’ . |
| 6 | Nor was there the usual rise in ammonia or nitrite levels , as there had been in the past . |
| 7 | When they reached the market place , he realised that his father had been right : there were nowhere near as many workers as there had been in previous Novembers . |
| 8 | Clearly there were as many flaws in the current version of the Big Bang Theory as there had been in the Steady State Theory . |
| 9 | There remained in the polytechnics ( as there had been in the former teacher training colleges ) lecturers who , having experience of teaching in primary schools , acknowledged the importance of approaching teacher education in a broader , more holistic way . |
| 10 | There was no attempt , as there had been in 1919 , to withdraw from a world role . |
| 11 | Even in the urban core where there has been massive population loss associated with slum clearance , there were almost as many dwellings in 1981 as there had been in 1961 and , as Table 3.4 shows , the area now has a far higher standard of amenity . |
| 12 | In the lands west of the Rhine , there was in principle , as there had been in late Roman times , a count for each civitas , though in practice , one man often held two or more neighbouring civitates . |
| 13 | Such population growth as there has been since then comes from a natural internally generated increase and there has been significant out-migration . |
| 14 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 15 | In so far as the house does represent a large capital asset , and it undoubtedly does , I am quite clear that in the long term , house prices are likely , generally to rise with inflation , indeed I would think must do so or perhaps to rise rather more quickly than inflation if there is a rising population and as there has been for very , very ma many years have passed , that , in the passed a decreasing occupancy rate . |
| 16 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 17 | erm there are a lot of social needs that remain unmet , and meeting those needs would generate more employment , but in many areas of the economy I do n't think there 's so much need for work as there has been in the past , especially as we 're applying new technologies that increase productivity dramatically . |
| 18 | They 're saying , ‘ Recognise us or there will be war , as there 's been in the rest of the former Yugoslavia . ’ |
| 19 | I you know how conservative I am with figures and er with advising you as to what may occur I 'm myself relatively confident that erm we shall meet our ticket sales target by the year end and that there will be no as there as there 's been in previous years since er the aforementioned not to be noted er crisis . |
| 20 | Delegates are still addressed as brother , sister , or comrade , but this year there are electronic signs in the hall giving the speaker 's name — as there have been at the Conservative conference for quite a while . |
| 21 | However , when they come on suddenly — particularly when there are some other symptoms , as there have been in your case — it 's vital to seek medical help as soon as possible . |
| 22 | The implication is that such conflicts as there have been in the past were merely the result of misunderstanding . |