Example sentences of "[be] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , keel-haul me fer a Spanisher , ’ Susan exclaimed , ‘ ye 're as scurvy a shipment o ’ cut-throats as any that e'er sailed the Main . |
| 2 | His main role will be as ambassador for Weatherill 's in America , where the firm hopes to find a new market . |
| 3 | The future will not be as God/dess or fate decrees , but as we design it . |
| 4 | However good they might be as students , their families feel that marriage is infinitely preferable to a college career . |
| 5 | MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ . |
| 6 | No doubt Clinton will soon be as shit as every previous president : breaking promises , screwing up the economy , stomping on small countries . |
| 7 | MGM was not quite as happy with The Crowd ( 1928 ) , which was held back for a year and temporarily given a happy ending and which proved only to be as Kine Weekly predicted ‘ a sound box office success ’ rather than a runaway winner . |
| 8 | The ideal time to make that kind of break would be as Sun shifts over to an object-oriented operating system , its next operating systems move , McNealy said . |
| 9 | But his chief duty will be as coach to a club looking to overhaul their playing structure ready for the move to top-class new facilities the season after next . |
| 10 | In these days of competitive air fares many overseas locations can be as cost effective as being in the UK . |
| 11 | You shall be as marble until … |
| 12 | It is a remarkable fact , Mr Hopkins , that the argument used by the serpent to seduce Eve from her allegiance to her Creator is almost precisely that used by the Editor of The Times : " Ye shall be as GODS , knowing good and evil " … that is , as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 13 | But her best-known theatre role in the city has to be as Shirley Valentine , the acclaimed Willy Russell play that she took all over the country four years ago . |
| 14 | Er and it may well be as Mr has suggested that when we look at it it is not a problem . |
| 15 | But it may well be as Mr suggested that er there 's l there 's gon na be very little difficulty there . |
| 16 | That 's exactly what I was going to say , Mr Chairman , it 's , it might be as Mr says , or it may , it may well make matters worse , I do n't think we should get into the debate on how the national government are doing , |
| 17 | ‘ No , no , you see , we are in Rome and must be as Romans … ’ |
| 18 | Until then her sole performance would be as guest of honour that evening at the Eastbourne Conservative Club , where she had been asked to unveil a bust in commemoration of Dr Bodkin Adams . |
| 19 | Wishes can of course be fulfilled or remain unfulfilled and things may or may not be as people with certain attitudes would like , but it would be thoroughly misleading to speak of truth or falsehood here . |
| 20 | On most street corners there are cigarette machines ( the Germans do n't seem to be as health conscious as we are ) . |
| 21 | The thematic of historicity … has always been required by the determination of Being as presence … |
| 22 | In Nils Enkvist 's words , " styles come into being as aggregates of probabilities of expression in situational contexts , or , more briefly , as aggregates of contextual probabilities " ( p. 129 ) . |
| 23 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 24 | Being as Liverpool had never seen a skate comp before , the atmosphere at Dan-Z 's was riotous — even though it was only a mini ramp . |
| 25 | In Jesus ' own relation of sonship to the Father , a relation which is mediated and empowered by the Holy Spirit , the triune structure of God 's own eternal being as Father , Son and Holy Spirit is shown as the eternal ground within God of the human person and history of Jesus . |
| 26 | The world itself is presented as a kind of self-projection of Geist , in which it brings itself into being as Nature , and so as over against itself ( thesis and antithesis ) . |
| 27 | Against all the odds it has worked , and this is a measure of just how strong they both were as individuals when they came to the marriage ten years ago . |
| 28 | In Birmingham , the largest number of placements for juveniles during the first eighteen months of the scheme were as messengers and porters , workers in drilling , milling , engineering , and brass foundries , business clerks , and labourers in warehouses . |
| 29 | People were as plants , cultivated or wild , all subjected to growth , only requiring sustenance , a space to live , to exist . |
| 30 | He 'd been doing solo club pa 's as Zura C before the pair met . |