Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been . |
| 2 | In many ways I was greatly relieved as it had become obvious to me that he was n't well . |
| 3 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 4 | Well , erm , I know the forecast is n't quite so brilliant as it has been , I think but |
| 5 | When the accompanying chords are detached , it is not necessary to make the melodic line quite so powerful as it has to be to come through a mass of sustained harmony . |
| 6 | It was more adaptable and was less expensive as it had the quality of being effective , whether richly ornamented or not . |
| 7 | As they parted , she pursed her lips and lifted her well-attended face , which did n't look quite so young as it had in the restaurant . |
| 8 | I saw Masha gliding through towards us : that unmistakable froth of brown hair , the exuberant , doll-like face ; and behind her , over-topping her , the bleak , dark face of Victor Surkov , his hair not grey as it had been when we last met some six years ago , but a brilliant yellow spreading down over his shoulders . |
| 9 | The centre of the village is still much as it has always been , with an attractive pond , complete with swans , surrounded by the school , chapel and public house ( named appropriately the Swan and Cygnet ) . |
| 10 | The space involved is still locally flat as it has a metric equation that reduces to a difference of squares . |
| 11 | This might be achieved using the power of guardianship , often regarded as toothless as it has no power to enforce medication . |
| 12 | Whether it was during a healing , or during one of those morning meditations , I ca n't remember , but I had to assure Christopher that although I had stayed to every meditation and seen it through to the end , and although he had brought God , and probably Jesus Christ in upon several occasions , my original It was as intact as it had ever been . |
| 13 | The losses at the Battle of Sagrajas had been great and not even the addition of El Cid 's men could make it anything like as strong as it had been before the coming of Yusuf . |
| 14 | With a force totalling some 7000 , he began to subdue much of eastern Castile , making it as strong as it had been before Sagrajas . |
| 15 | But it seemed even that could do little more than dull the edges of the pain , and , when she woke up one morning with a painful hangover and realised the ache in her heart was just as strong as it had ever been , she swore she 'd never again attempt to deal with her sorrows that way . |
| 16 | Lowell , vaguely aware that the light was n't as strong as it had been , stopped fighting sleep and dozed a little . |
| 17 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ said Owen , ‘ I think you may find that in future that party is not quite as strong as it has been . ’ |
| 18 | Then he spoke , his voice not quite as calm as it had been previously , the accent humming roughly in the depths of the tones . |
| 19 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 20 | Higher than its current rate of 1.8m ( 6.2% ) , but probably not as high as it had to in the mid-1980s . |
| 21 | Although the number of recorded offences in that decade was not as high as it had been in the 1950s it is nevertheless an important trend . |
| 22 | ‘ All groups have said we will review it in September and there is a general feeling that the charge should not have been set as high as it has been . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Improvement ensued under Tub LM1 ( again taken from a 5ml dropper bottle ) although the patient commented that the wheeziness was n't as clear as it had been on the first Phosphorus . |
| 25 | Nor could the academic organization of the schools remain as rudimentary as it had been : communication and management would not just ‘ happen ’ in schools of a thousand pupils or more , and the stream of curriculum innovation needed to be carefully channelled — especially in a system where each school enjoyed considerable freedom in choosing patterns of study and teaching methods . |
| 26 | But at least a dream of empire was not as impossible as it had been in 1558 . |
| 27 | For about four centuries the rulers of England had been trying to conquer and rule France , Scotland , and Ireland , but they had just lost their last foothold in France at Calais , their position in Ireland was as insecure as it had ever been , and the Scottish problem had taken an altogether new turn because Mary the Queen of Scotland could present a good claim to the English throne . |
| 28 | The wound was not as serious as it had at first seemed , but the bone was broken . |
| 29 | Unemployment problems put paid to Labour 's political prospects in the early 1930s just as much as it had helped the party to rise to political power in the 1920s . |
| 30 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |