Example sentences of "[be] [det] as " in BNC.

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1 Since then performance has been much as expected .
2 We 're all as the good Lord made us and some of us a sight worse .
3 I mean I think the , I , I think it can effect this , but not that materially erm there are many as you know different provinces round the world and what happens in the C I S is , is obviously very important for the Middle East and so erm it will have an impact .
4 If , if as I understand it , it 's a matter of law , and the practice will be much as just suggested , is that a correct er , interpretation .
5 The Northern Ireland Act 1982 provides for the existing Assembly ( which lacks both legislative and executive powers ) to make proposals for the transfers to the Assembly of legislative and executive powers but such proposals must be such as to be ‘ likely to command widespread acceptance throughout the community ’ and although attempts are currently under way to evolve such proposals , they have not so far met with success .
6 Here the world of the mind that I build will not be same as another man builds ; each one of us must build his own world of I and Thou .
7 It used to er be same as ordinary room you know it people used
8 And when you see them you can think , ah that would be same as what I was doing in that one , and you can work it out for yourselves .
9 At best they were regarded as a distraction , if not a danger ; the assumption being that as they did not smoke or play outdoor games , ‘ they devote themselves … to inducing lads to leave humming-tops and marbles , and cleave only to them ’ .
10 It is not particularly surprising that Coleman , a redoubtable big fish in a very small pond , although giving great attention to his early cases , later assumed a sometimes unjustified confidence , and came to believe , or at least teach , that the diseases of the horse were few as compared to those of man , and that he could carry all the drugs necessary for veterinary practice in his waistcoat pocket .
11 That is pretty high praise ; and though there are some obvious exceptions , they were fewer as the years went by .
12 There were many as reckoned she threw ‘ erself away when she started going wi ’ Walter Machin . ’
13 sort of , to put it , I 'm gon na be is that as from tomorrow we will have identified what erm desking and so on will be moved during the reorganization erm , and obviously any of the desking that is n't gon na be moved until the organization , we 'll be tidying up the cables .
14 that can be used for actually doing , doing the recycling on each of those , and and I would like to say that that this , this report had been erm prepared jointly by officers of the Transportation Department who were responsible for the operational side and wi and the officers and regulation side of , of the Authority Planning Environment Department and therefore the comments in the air have been shared between erm both sides er what I would like to say is that as well as the recycling activities which are carried out in our household waste facilities of glass , paper , waste - oil , etc. , er there are we have in the last twelve months started two initiatives which I think will fall in into erm the , the first part - composting .
15 Well the er point I 'd like to make is that as of last Saturday the er , erm , the Soviets were building a new submarine every forty days , they 're spending thirty five percent of the G N P .
16 She is that as well .
17 I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure .
18 Be that as it may , it may turn out that the preparedness not to acquiesce in any all-Ireland solution is decidedly stronger than most commentators until recently were prepared to accept , except for the work of Bew , Gibbon , and Patterson .
19 Be that as it may , I do n't think such frivolity helps CAMRA 's cause .
20 Perhaps this is a reflection of the increasing health of the young and affluent , who are prepared to try to dance for 24 hours ; be that as it may , it multiplies the offence to outsiders .
21 Be that as it may , this work , heavily reliant on repetition and never straying far from the home key , cried out for someone to nurture its more lyrical passages , to shake its often delightful phrases , to exploit its contrasts ; in short , for a far more imaginative approach than that brought by Harry Christophers .
22 Be that as it may , these avant-gardes are held to have a ‘ distinctive character ’ which resides in their ‘ seeking to abolish the separation between art and life ’ .
23 Be that as it may , it was here mat Lewis began to build up his encyclopaedic knowledge of late medieval literature .
24 Be that as it may , the last two state-supported military schools that refuse to admit women cadets are fighting a rearguard action for their cause .
25 Be that as it may , terrible things clearly happened .
26 Be that as it may , Woolridge had his suspicions .
27 Be that as it may …
28 Be that as it may , ’ he said , ‘ you do not sell newspapers by making people feel guilty . ’
29 Be that as it may , since that first witticism concerning the gypsies , I have not been able to think of other such witticisms quickly enough .
30 Be that as it may , chancroid is diagnosed and treated with frequency in endemic areas where it has been described as a disease of the socially unenlightened and the economically unfortunate .
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