Example sentences of "[verb] as [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrill was out of all proportion to the event , of course , and serves only to reflect the overwhelmingly domesticated aspect of much British countryside , dominated as it is by cows and sheep , as well as some of what historian Keith Thomas has called ‘ our anti-urban bias ’ . |
| 2 | It is also clear that the transport sector , dominated as it is by private modes , represents the fastest growing source of airborne pollutants , including greenhouse gases . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not good for the Konica League to be dominated as it is by Southern teams . |
| 4 | One of my lasting impressions as an undergraduate studying at the London School of Economics in the early 1960s , dominated as it was by the Popperian conception of science and the quest for a Positive Economics , was of the great gulf that was fixed between the two worlds of social science and religious belief . |
| 5 | Consultants can provide a source of expert advice for local groups , but the issue of who controls the process must be addressed as it was absolutely crucial for any community economic development . |
| 6 | Surrounded as we are by solutions of all kinds , each one supported by persuasive evidence of attested success , we can not but be tempted into the belief that somewhere among them there will be one which matches our particular teaching problem and which can therefore be slotted into our situation like a cassette or a computer programme . |
| 7 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 8 | The whole resort is very picturesque , surrounded as it is by the Kitzbuhler alps . |
| 9 | If there is such a place as an ideal situation , Donnington Brewery must surely be in it , surrounded as it is by beautiful scenery , an abundance of wild life and a remarkable air of peace and tranquillity . |
| 10 | Her mother , once rid of the armour-plated respectability of Maître Henri and his phalanx of parents , brothers and sisters , all devoted to the law , had married a happy-go-lucky literary exile from Leeds , as nearly as possible his opposite , and the half-English , half-French child had been absorbed into their slapdash household with the greatest enthusiasm and affection , and never given time to doubt or worry , surrounded as she was by joyous evidence of her own importance and value . |
| 11 | Surrounded as he was by flatterers and sycophants , Constantius may have disposed of some of the land as rewards for service and information , but he needed money to recoup the heavy losses in his army . |
| 12 | Surrounded as he was by the glamour of the acting world , he could pick and choose from the world 's most beautiful women — women like Marianne , with her lush body and provocative , slanting green eyes . |
| 13 | A remarkable film of 1955 , Rebel without a Cause , claimed as ‘ new realism ’ when it was first screened , showed delinquent boys and girls in the mid-teens proving their worth in ‘ chicken ’ contests whose violence , distorted as it is by social pressures , does express a genuine personal pride : the dares and challenges of the groups of Hell 's Angels today , leading to criminal actions , have a distant debased origin in the concept of honour . |
| 14 | In addition , the clergy appear to have considerable difficulty in recognizing the transformation which theoretical positions on Christian belief and morality undergo as they are concretized in historical human relationships , doubtless also because of the strong essentialist bias in their perception of socio-ethical issues . |
| 15 | We are within the Constitution as it stands , nothing illegal is going on and we claim the right to be treated as democratic citizens assembling as we are free to do . |
| 16 | At the same time he has no political authority , er , representing as it were the British government , he 's just an individual of stature , and he 's got the time and the energy to do it . |
| 17 | For an economy such as the one we have imagined in which there is imperfect information in the sense we have described , the relationship between aggregate supply and the general level of prices can be depicted as it is in figure 4.3 . |
| 18 | One of the big ways is , is spiritualism and things that are not real , things that are sort of er blind in the mind of the unbeliever as it were , in other words material things probably and things that have under revelation |
| 19 | I said that I would not believe a son of mine could behave as he was alleging you had behaved . ’ |
| 20 | The Chamber of the House of Commons was damaged by bombs during the Second World War and when deciding whether it should be rebuilt as it was originally , or along the lines of the Houses of Parliament in Ottawa and elsewhere in the Commonwealth ( ’ one representative : one desk ’ ) , Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee , with other senior politicians , plumped for the old ways — and the old ways were those of adversarial politics . |
| 21 | The effects of the New Poor Law , after 1834 , suffused as it was with an assumption that the stable two-parent family was the norm , were probably less to encourage female sexual autonomy , and a ‘ sexual revolution ’ than to diminish female control . |
| 22 | I could not see what was happening as I was falling upsidedown and my legs obscured all view of the aircraft above me . |
| 23 | The response is encrypted as it is sent , and responses come back faster than pre-PROFS . |
| 24 | However , his action provoked significant comment from Treasury permanent secretaries , committed as they were to a Gladstonian ideology of ‘ cheap government ’ and to the subordination of the extravagant missionary zeal of medical reformers . |
| 25 | Of all the uniformed organizations , the Boys ' Life Brigade founded in Nottingham by the Revd John Brown Paton , was the most distinctive in so far as it appeared to be non-military , committed as it was to the principles of life-saving , even though it had a BB-style uniform and a military command structure . |
| 26 | For example where the handbrake of a motor car is released and the car is allowed to run down a hill by itself the offence under section 12 would not be committed as it was not for his or another 's use . |
| 27 | By the early twentieth century , it was not unusual for the library to be a masculine combination of gun room , study and smoking room , and the Dolls ' House library has a cluttered family atmosphere , scattered as it is with periodicals , newspapers , cards and dice . |
| 28 | Same as all farm work , see , farm work They do n't know as they 're born these days , these youngsters do n't , when they come to talking about farming . |
| 29 | Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were . |
| 30 | We are already enjoying eternal life , and physical death will merely mean the passing from life , in which we see through a glass darkly , to life when we shall see and know as we are known . |