Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] be for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 2 | But , I think it would be illusory to think that we can maintain our profits from land in ninety three at the same level as it had been for ninety one and two . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years . |
| 5 | This needs materials scientists , whose contribution is likely to be as decisive for biosensor research as it has been for mainstream biomaterials research . |
| 6 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 7 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |
| 8 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 9 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |