Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had known the family for some years as I had been Mrs Singh 's English tutor on a local authority adult literacy programme . |
| 2 | As long as there had been secrets , she had felt close to him but now , with the opening of these two slim packages , the last of those secrets would be gone . |
| 3 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |
| 4 | Some people are wary of keeping Plecs in an aquarium with Discus as there have been cases of Plecs grazing off the sides of the Discus and leaving sucker marks on them but I have not seen any evidence of this from the Spotted Orange Pleco . |
| 5 | Potassium permanganate has the disadvantage of producing solid manganese dioxide during the process of oxidation which can cause blockages and importantly where any of the chlorinated oxidising agents are used care needs to be taken when phenolic contaminants are present as there have been instances of chlorophenols being formed which in turn produce most obnoxious odours sometimes toxic which are extremely difficult to break down . |
| 6 | It is not a recent development ; there have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people , and efforts to cope with their presence have been proceeding since the last century . |
| 7 | There have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people but , before the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century , public awareness was low . |
| 8 | Yet all was glitter in this room , as it had been glitter two months ago when she had been so happy . |
| 9 | As it had been years since I had been anywhere further away from Fontanellato than Parma , I had no hesitation in saying that I would like to go to Bologna . |
| 10 | ( One may however ask after the nature of men in so far as it has been men rather than women who have created these pictures of the world and of the ‘ place ’ of woman within it such that they should have needed to construct such a misogynist picture . ) |
| 11 | ‘ Dare Say certainly deserved this change of luck as he 'd been second in three of his four races so far this term . ’ |