Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] be as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plastics are not the villain they are made out to be as regards the volume of waste . |
| 2 | And time boiled back into being as the touch of his lips sent a shaft of fire down to sear her inside . |
| 3 | MGM was not quite as happy with The Crowd ( 1928 ) , which was held back for a year and temporarily given a happy ending and which proved only to be as Kine Weekly predicted ‘ a sound box office success ’ rather than a runaway winner . |
| 4 | Too often retired people will say that retirement did not turn out to be as they had expected . |
| 5 | To anticipate , the basis of the resolution of the paradox will turn out to be as follows . |