Example sentences of "be [verb] as [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , no City lawyers or top barristers are included as they rarely touch the lives of ordinary people . |
| 2 | Our pattern will be displayed as we originally designed it in the Fair Isle option , but we are about to make some changes . |
| 3 | To Samsonov , all seemed to be proceeding as he most desired , and he , like Rennenkampf before him , with mistaken confidence , began to believe that the enemy were all in retreat to the Vistula . |
| 4 | Door bars may require to be replaced as they often buckle when being lifted . |
| 5 | This resistance can only be overcome as you gently persuade and cajole subordinates to expand their horizons . |
| 6 | If the bill were to be passed as it now stands it would result in the restriction , and even removal , of presently existing freedoms for evangelistic work . |
| 7 | And their answers are startling as they frankly reveal all for the first time . |
| 8 | Robin Maynard , a campaigner for Friends of the Earth , said : ‘ It 's a hidden problem ; most farmers do n't know soil is being eroded as they increasingly rely on a mixture of new strains of crops , fertilisers and farm equipment . ’ |
| 9 | They were both attacked , one having a violent headache , the other being possessed as I now realised I had been . |
| 10 | Three police cars were damaged as they effectively rammed the metro and brought it to a stop . |
| 11 | His ambitions were fulfilled as he rightly claimed that his cars won more races than any other model . |
| 12 | They were sitting as they always did when her father was home , in the large airy dining room which looked out on the stone patio where in the summer clematis bloomed white and purple . |
| 13 | The trio , who were linked on security force computers to 32 murders , were killed as they apparently tried to murder a retired UDR man on a remote Co Tyrone road . |
| 14 | Moments later his suspicions were confirmed as it gradually slid open . |
| 15 | For the salvation offered by God to men and women … took on , from the Old Testament Prophets onwards , the privileged form of a nuptial mystery : for God the Chosen People is seen as his ardently loved spouse … |
| 16 | If I do need to remove the fish can you give me any suggestions on housing them temporarily while the tank is cleaned as I only have one tank . |
| 17 | When the New Year 's Honours List is published , Britons will learn once again that the snob system is functioning as it always has . |
| 18 | Nathan was frowning as he gingerly touched the plaster . |
| 19 | This arrangement was terminated as it apparently consumed too much valuable wood . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a very tempting offer , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke was saying as she expertly took up her soup without slurping it . |
| 21 | And that was exactly what the radiologist was doing as he slowly ran his sensor over my stomach . |
| 22 | Dusk was falling as I eventually made my way back into town . |
| 23 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |