Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some areas of Scotland , the rise has been as much as 35 per cent . |
| 2 | The progress has been as dynamic , and certainly more precise , than anything produced by those great painters . |
| 3 | I am always in my very best spirits , for my heart has been as light as a feather ever since I got away from all that humbug ; and , what is more , I have become fatter . |
| 4 | Let us suppose that a Government , a party , observing that the rate of increase of the national income has been as high as 3 per cent in real terms over the last few years , were to decide to make plans which involve the growth of public expenditure at the rate of 2and1/2 ; per cent , so as to be a little within the recent happy experience . |
| 5 | Sadly not every one of St Peter 's successors has been as appreciative of his work as they might have been . |
| 6 | Worse still , by the end of May there were indications that for the first time German losses might be exceeding those of the French ; within a week one completely new brigade had been as good as wiped out . |
| 7 | The result had been as fresh-faced and direct as Hogarth 's Shrimp Girl and when the Queen was persuaded to choose Moynihan as the portraitist of Princess Elizabeth , she wanted the same quality as that found in Private Clarke . |
| 8 | In the more remote regions population losses have been as high as 10 per cent in many of the intercensal periods during the twentieth century ( Dunn 1976 ) . |
| 9 | England 's batting in this Test has been as dodgy as the plate of prawns which ruled out captain Graham Gooch . |
| 10 | It was not surprising that Benny had been as excited as a hen walking on hot coals all summer long , never able to keep still , always jumping up with some further excitement . |
| 11 | " Then Prince Rainbow saw that El-ahrairah had been as good as his word , and that he himself must keep his promise too . |
| 12 | Katherine had been as excited as a child on Christmas morning . |
| 13 | If only that bloody dry cleaner had been as inefficient as most of them usually were . |
| 14 | Of Cooper 's other favourites , Klee 's 1927 pen ‘ Blume und Früchte ’ ( a gift to Cooper from the artist 's widow ) sold to Heinz Berggruen for $70,000 ( £38,900 ) ( est. $25–35,000 ) , an entirely appropriate outcome as Berggruen had been as devoted to Picasso as Cooper was . |
| 15 | Their political campaign had been as ineffectual as their terrorist ‘ outrages , ’ which had harmed no one but the odd insurance firm . |
| 16 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 17 | Rose Brady 's attention had been as unexpected as it had been sudden and welcome . |
| 18 | During the last few minutes Hazel had been as near to losing his head as he was ever to come . |
| 19 | Monday afternoon in the House of Commons had been as great a triumph for him ( although he had said practically nothing ) as it had been a disaster for Churchill . |
| 20 | He admitted that Ipswich had been as fortunate to beat Newcastle as they were to beat Wolves in midweek . |
| 21 | The lord of Glyndyfrdwy had been as well-tutored in arms as in law , and as apt a pupil ; he had , moreover , all the experience that Edmund lacked . |
| 22 | Jessamy had been as overwhelmed as he had been , dazzled by the physical passion , and amazed that her own easygoing , relaxed attitude to life could be turned upside down by this one man . |
| 23 | That was how I heard Old Red had been as angry as Sister over the Charlie Peters affair , and had said as much to Dr Jones . |
| 24 | The diagnoses of Britain 's problems have been as varied as the problems themselves . |
| 25 | THE MILITANT defenders of animals ' rights have been as active in Canada as in Britain . |
| 26 | This three-CD retrospective of his solo output is a timely reminder that his career has been as interesting for its disasters as its triumphs . |
| 27 | In more recent times the functioning of Swedish industrial relations has been as much , if not more , dependent upon the centralisation of power within the employers ' confederation as upon the unions ' peak organisation . |
| 28 | In the four general elections held since independence the turnover of MPs has been as much as 50 per cent . |
| 29 | Her own father had been as much of a weakling as her husband subsequently became ; Gustave supplanted him . |
| 30 | They told me that the girl 's father had been as coy as any nineteenth-century English maiden . |