Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 2 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 3 | She did n't want to understand him , but heated recognition rippled through her as she stared at his mouth , as unwillingly fascinated by its sensual curve as she had been six years ago , when all her breathlessly adored heroes had suddenly become prosaic and petty with the advent of the man from Hong Kong . |
| 4 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 5 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
| 6 | Leicester C.C. ( N.C. , 1985 ) said that where an order had to be laid before Parliament , laying before the House of Commons was sufficient as there had been substantial compliance with the procedural requirements . |
| 7 | There would appear to be some untold facts about Blea Moor Tunnel as there has been much speculation but very little facts of details . |
| 8 | Pursuant to the reply that the Minister gave earlier to the hon. Member for Ross , Cromarty and Skye ( Mr. Kennedy ) , and as there has been much speculation that there will be no GATT settlement at all this year , will the Minister confirm that , should there be no GATT settlement , he will oppose the MacSharry proposals for the rest of this year ? |
| 9 | I think that it would be helpful now if I described in some detail what the effect of the banding arrangements will be , as there has been considerable misunderstanding of the provisions . |
| 10 | It was the Prague School that unified Formalism and Saussurean linguistics in a single theoretical programme , or at least — as there has been some discussion as to the exact nature of the Prague school 's debt to Saussure — reformulated Formalist literary theory within the framework of a linguistics which shared most of Saussure 's fundamental principles , and to which they attached the label structuralism . |
| 11 | There have been as many ways of doing this as there have been ethnographic studies done . |
| 12 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 13 | From 1859 caves became exciting to geologists , as they had been forty years earlier when Buckland looked for evidence of the Deluge . |
| 14 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 15 | The hands moved away , downwards , across the hard muscle of his stomach that was as tough and flat as it had been ten years ago , when he was eighteen . |
| 16 | SHE CORRESPONDED WITH AN EXPERT ON THE CHURCH , WHO TOLD HER THAT THE CHURCH SHE HAD ‘ SEEN ’ WAS THE CHURCH AS IT HAD BEEN 400 YEARS AGO , BEFORE IT HAD BEEN REBUILT IN 1553 . |
| 17 | I enjoyed the gnocchi in a friendly watering hole along the road , however , and the Elban wine was just as good as it had been 30 years ago . |
| 18 | The very word ‘ Mystery ’ could not provide a much heavier clue , and I am bold to assert that Agatha Christie 's inspiration to write mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot sprang directly from her reading of the following extract from the Harrogate Third Shepherd 's Pay in the Hull Cycle ( ‘ as it hath been divers time acted by the Guild of Chandlers and Gardners upon the Feast of Corpus Christie , ) : |
| 19 | He was a mainstay of City government in the crisis caused by plague in 1593 , when he was in his seventies , just as he had been thirty years before , in the devastating epidemic of 1563 . |
| 20 | ‘ What would he want a word about ? ’ she questioned hostilely , wanting him to be gentle as he had been that morning . |
| 21 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 22 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |