Example sentences of "as [pron] be at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure you are as appalled as I am at the use that has been made of the private letter of a schoolboy to his parents , but it is certainly a lesson for you in the ways of the world . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Most important is to have the physical and mental strength to be as successful at the end of this season as I was at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 3 | Yet , as I watched all this from the very end of the slow queue , I had thought it would be me who would have been regarded the potential menace as I was at the wheel of the most outrageously styled and priced supercar ever . |
| 4 | ‘ Honey , I 'd love to , but I 'm more or less stuck here as much as you are at the moment . |
| 5 | You got as far as you were at the wedding |
| 6 | I doubt if anyone in the four divisions is entertaining as much as we are at the moment . |
| 7 | Mr Hart believes there should be a more structured approach to problem-solving as there is at the Halewood plant . |
| 8 | Sun 's recently announced activities in the personal systems business with First Person are not directly involved , aimed as they are at the consumer end of the market rather than corporate networking . |
| 9 | ‘ Clearly the Kurds , one way or another , are going to present an enormous problem to the courts very shortly , as they are at the moment to the Home Office , ’ Mr Justice Schiemann said . |
| 10 | ‘ We buy 50 to 60 cars a year , and if they prove to be as good as they are at the moment at the end of the year I think we could be in the market again for more diesels . |
| 11 | and they 're not there t as they are at the moment to meet the needs of the Greater York area . |
| 12 | not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment . |
| 13 | Of course , er we er , the provisos must be er that the er , that the prices or the costs at the Nuffield remain as competitive as they are at the moment , and of course , that we get the same very high quality that we er , that we already have . |
| 14 | For the press the facilities were as basic as they were at the hotel . |
| 15 | The tenant may wish to dispense with 7.6.3 , 7.6.4 , 7.6.5 and 7.6.6 and add the following proviso to 7.6.2 : If for any reason the premises and all other relevant parts of the centre sufficient for the Tenant [ or any undertenant ] to carry on its [ or their ] normal trade and business including the means of access to the Premises and all essential services therein and thereto shall not be reinstated in accordance with the provisions of this clause as they were at the date of the relevant destruction or damage by the second anniversary of the date of the destruction or damage the Tenant may thereafter determine the Term by giving not less than one month 's notice to the Landlord and upon expiry of such notice the Term shall cease but without prejudice to the claim of either party for any earlier breach of covenant by the other This will doubtless be resisted by the landlord who will wish to have the unilateral right to terminate . |
| 16 | It was a series which left viewers as baffled at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 17 | I mean they are more or less the same at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 18 | ‘ Seven or eight hundred years of sewers , underground rivers , tunnels , and nobody knows where half of them are until they 're excavating or making changes , as they were at the Priory . |
| 19 | They are thus almost as dear as they were at the end of 1989 , when the p/e ratio peaked at 18 before a nearly successful coup sank the stockmarket and all who sailed in her . |
| 20 | Thus s27 of the Partnership Act states : ( 1 ) Where a partnership entered into for a fixed term is continued after the term has expired , and without any express new agreement , the rights and duties of the partners remain the same as they were at the expiration of the term , so far as is consistent with the incidents of a partnership at will . |
| 21 | Miracles were reported at his tomb as they were at the burial place of Richard Scrope , Archbishop of York , who was beheaded in 1405 and whose popularity as a saintly defender of Church freedoms against the usurpation of secular authority rivalled that of Thomas of Canterbury . |
| 22 | The issues raised by these comments are as relevant today as they were at the time . |
| 23 | The sharpest criticisms of this approach have been made — as they were at the time — from extreme left-wing but non-Stalinist positions . |
| 24 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 25 | This clerk is amorously alive and even experienced : — " " deerne love " " is as double in meaning here as it is at the beginning of Dame Sirith , and the same must hold for the semantically similar " " privee " " ; slyness is very much more the quality of a fabliau lover ( cf. |
| 26 | They are considering now short-term leases rather than sell on the market as it is at the present , and they are including the clinic in the buildings for which they are looking for alternative uses . |
| 27 | as it is at the Lyceum that there is kind of historically a certain amount of , not exactly friction , but I mean something that has |
| 28 | The machine tool industry meets the worst of the problem , as it is at the end of the manufacturing cycle and can not respond quickly either in recession or in a boom , because of the long lead-times involved in production and delivery . |
| 29 | I 'd like , I think as it is at the moment is erm is superb ! |
| 30 | ‘ This morning I 'm taking you up the coast to my house overlooking the Sound , and if the weather stays as good as it is at the moment we 'll spend the afternoon on the beach at Hornbaek , which means we 'll go right past Kronberg — we can even stop off and take the tour if it appeals to you . ’ |