Example sentences of "[adv] as [pers pn] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orbit will be circular and the Moon will be about 1½ times as far away as it is now and so total solar eclipses will not occur . |
| 2 | Would she and Stephen be sitting just as they were now and be suddenly unable to remember anything that had happened because nothing would have been real ? |
| 3 | Be just as you are now and you 'll be fine . ’ |
| 4 | the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics , who believed that , when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world , everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail . |
| 5 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
| 6 | As soon as he 's more or less mastered something , he 's bored with it . ’ |
| 7 | This would offer an overview of the environment — both as it is now and how it might become on present trends . |
| 8 | I 'm as good now as I was then and my target is 20 goals for the season . |
| 9 | I should like to commend to Members the text of the Inaugural meeting of the BIE in London in 1927 much of which is as relevant today as it was then and it will only be by the commitment of you the members that the Institute will improve and ultimately progress . |
| 10 | It 's Weathernly as it 's more or less . |
| 11 | Regular worshippers may have been as sparse then as they are today but he was a person to whom one turned in times of trouble , just as he was called on at times of family celebration . |
| 12 | The Poles were almost as keen to get foreign currency then as they are now and they allowed certain visits to relatives . ’ |
| 13 | Though the Dragon Princes were few the destruction they could wreak was unmatched then as it is now and few dared the wrath of Caledor . |