Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] to [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have to be in London for the entire week of the General Election , I applied to Darlington Town Hall for a postal vote . |
| 2 | ‘ The meaning of a profession ’ , wrote that great Christian socialist R. H. Tawney , ‘ is that it makes the traitors the exception , not , as they tend to be in industry , the rule . ’ |
| 3 | In the Bible miracles are not as sharply divided from other events as they tend to be in our thinking . |
| 4 | It seemed futile to go to the police as they appeared to be in the plot . |
| 5 | Political will ( backed by force — as it had to be in the view of the highly ambivalent public reaction to the programme hitherto ) had come with a vengeance ( Gwatkin 1979 : 29 ) . |
| 6 | For the British , then , the picture was not ultimately as black as it appeared to be in 1945. for their part , the Americans viewed the British with considerable suspicion , and harboured their traditional fears of being outmanoeuvred . |
| 7 | When adolescence is enforced or prolonged , as it tends to be in closed institutions , these needs become all the greater . |
| 8 | Such a state of affairs can not be ignored , as it tends to be in selective and much functional assessment . |
| 9 | When the hammer strikes , the string can not be dislodged from the nut , as it tends to be in a conventional 18th-century action , but is hit into the nut as in a down-striking action . |
| 10 | For the best results , exact control of the adhesion seems to be critical but when this is achieved , as it seems to be in the best natural and artificial composite materials , very excellent combinations of strength and toughness are created . |
| 11 | Mr Farraday will usually have just returned from his short walk on the downs at that point , so he is rarely engrossed in his reading or writing as he tends to be in the evenings . |
| 12 | Benjamin Titford , we must say , was not quite as elevated socially as he appears to be in his water-colour portrait ; or rather , he had only recently become so — which was good enough , after all , for any Victorian member of the nouveaux-riches . |