Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 2 | As I 've been stuck for years now |
| 3 | And it 's certainly been marvellous to come and listen to it , as I have been one of your loyal supporters over many years . |
| 4 | No thanks love , not yet that 's with the conversations , spoken English , guidelines for recording conversations , guidelines for recording conversations As soon as you 've been involved in a conversation , press the record down to start recording oh yeah these are to show people what you 're doing for |
| 5 | Additionally , if you have received treatment or advice for a medical condition during the 2 years before taking up the Hospital Income Plan , your cover for the condition commences after you have been insured for 24 months or if you are admitted to hospital for that condition during this period then as soon after the 24 months as you have been free of in-patient treatment for 12 months . |
| 6 | Muriel held the broad shoulders and was surprised at the strangeness of the proximity , just as she had been surprised at the sight of Delia 's loosened hair some weeks before . |
| 7 | As we saw was true of Durkheim , much of this analysis and terminology of Weber 's has been adopted by radical and Marxist theorists ; thus we find radicals such as Fitzgerald and Sim ( 1992 ; see Chapter 1 ) identify-ing a ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ in the penal system . |
| 8 | III ’ , which as we know is unproductive of surplus-value . |
| 9 | For the first four years of the new school 's existence the buildings were used much as they had been prior to amalgamation , but in 1974 organisation was rationalised to provide departmental areas with teaching rooms and adjacent resource bases . |
| 10 | There was no dispute in the proceedings before the judge , nor is there now , that the appellants were served with that notice of motion , as they had been earlier with the notice of the order made by the deputy judge . |
| 11 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |
| 12 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | This was n't supposed to happen — but then , nothing today had happened as it had been supposed to . |
| 14 | Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes . |
| 15 | It 's tremendous as it 's been dry for 10 years . |
| 16 | More than useful at manipulating the seam , dazzling in the field — the pirouette and throw that cut down David Smith at Southend had to be seen to be believed — Mark 's elegant bat could prove as distressing for the patriot next summer as it has been enchanting for the connoisseur this . |
| 17 | His arthritis made it impossible for him to walk as he had been used to doing . |
| 18 | Geoffrey 's appointment was appropriate , as he had been assistant to the marshal in the Welsh war of 1282 . |
| 19 | He had returned earlier in the day and Maeve was as ecstatic to see him as he had been hungry for her . |
| 20 | En route , we passed a woodman baking potatoes and chestnuts on the ashes of a fire , as Jean-Claude had done , and a huge swarm of angry , iridescent flies hovering over a dead fox , as he had been accustomed to finding close at hand . |
| 21 | As he had been delirious on arrival , the authorities , knowing that his landlady , Mrs Avery , had been responsible for getting him into hospital , simply put down her name as next-of-kin . |