Example sentences of "as [pron] have been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , as we have been at pains to argue , to do so would be only to impose our own interpretation of reality on the reader . |
| 3 | ‘ Rangers are happy to be as successful as we have been in Scotland . |
| 4 | As they have been at Wimpey Homes ’ first development of Superspec houses at West Moor in Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 5 | If they 're offered , as they have been for years and years ever since the industrial revolution , things that have been cynically designed for the working classes , is it surprising that we have a nation of people who are supposed to have no visual standards ? |
| 6 | Perhaps now teenagers — brainwashed as they have been by teen magazines , TV programmes and pop stars who all glamorise sex — will understand why it is so much wiser to wait . |
| 7 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |
| 8 | GP fundholders are subject to a new set of perverse incentives which arise from the fact that in their case purchasing and providing roles are fused , not separated as they have been in DHAs . |