Example sentences of "as [adj] [subord] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stalin 's attitude towards France remained as contemptuous after he had signed the pact as it had been before . |
| 2 | It never struck me as odd until I had left school , that a school of girls aged from eleven to eighteen should daily be addressed as ‘ children ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ He was n't as odd as you 'd made him out to be , your friend , ’ Gillian said as we left . |
| 4 | It was n't as awful as she 'd anticipated , partly because she greatly admired Raimondo 's talent , partly because the audience was so small , just the sheikh , his wives , a handful of retainers , and a couple of the sheikh 's Italian business associates brought along to translate — although one of the businessmen kept giving her glances that made her uncomfortable . |
| 5 | The back 4/5 will have to be as solid as they have looked in recent games . |
| 6 | Italy 's involvement in the Spanish Civil War , in emulation of Germany , had cost much more than the government had intended , and by 1939 Mussolini must have known that the Army and Air Force were not anything like as strong as he had imagined they were , even if he did not know the extent of their weakness . |
| 7 | On the carpet by the tallboy were several red carnations , as fresh as they had come from the florist , and beside them , a shattered glass spill . |
| 8 | I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed . |
| 9 | The city spread out below her looked so calm , almost as calm as she had felt such a little time before . |
| 10 | Just one glance had told Muldoon that they were very far from being as generous as he had encouraged Mark to believe . |
| 11 | Was she as old as he 'd thought ? |
| 12 | He was younger than she had supposed from Jenny 's description — in his early thirties , and as good-looking as she had expected . |
| 13 | But while Wainfleet 's apology had been specious and he really did not see what all the fuss was about , he was not quite as carefree as he had let them think . |
| 14 | I sang , pondering whether my thanks were as spontaneous as I had thought or whether I was just too scared to complain . |
| 15 | That this would be an inappropriate objection is evident from the fact that the Punch cartoon I mentioned earlier would have been almost as funny if it had figured a human fisherman rather than a kingfisher . |
| 16 | Given the choice now , he wished the old holidays could be taken again , that things were not as different as they had become . |
| 17 | Memories of her did n't seem as painful as he had imagined . |
| 18 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 19 | ‘ The dragons might be there ; they might be real and they might be every bit as vicious as I 'd imagined , but I 'm a human being ; so was Adolf Hitler and he killed millions of people ! |
| 20 | Three young men with loop and stud earrings in one ear ( the lad on the Caledonian Canal fishing boat was not as individual as I had thought ) had three beefburgers and a pie each and then a chocolate KitKat with their tea . |
| 21 | In fact , his tone was level , and even his expression nowhere near as serious as she had imagined . |
| 22 | During this period , the American 8th Air Force squadrons of Flying Fortresses and Liberators , many of whom were stationed near to us in the vicinity of Cambridge and Huntingdon , were doing daylight raids deep into Germany , and were rapidly finding out that it was not as easy as they had expected . |
| 23 | Some time later , she acknowledged that the task was not proving to be as easy as she had expected . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , there 's one thing that seems sure to me : she 's not goin' to have it as easy as she 's had it up till now , by the sound of her . ’ |
| 25 | It was taking out a girl with a trail of boasts littering the streets behind you , although you both returned as virginal as you had set off but usually much colder . |
| 26 | It was n't as dark as I 'd expected . |
| 27 | ‘ Wait , calm yourself , sabiha tieghi , my beautiful one , ’ he teased softly , unbuttoning his shirt with fingers which shook almost as much as hers had done . |
| 28 | ‘ I have chosen seven men whose personalities will , I hope , interest other people as much as they have intrigued me . |
| 29 | At the annual meeting in March Mr Saatchi warned that profits would fall this year ( although nobody expected they would fall nearly as much as they have done ) and there would be disposals . |
| 30 | But over the years , his sales techniques have irritated as much as they have impressed , and he has been periodically banned from Celtic Park , Tynecastle and Fir Park . |