Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] be as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth cried thrusting her arm through her sister 's as they walked . |
| 2 | Briefly , the rationalisation for their inclusion is as follows . |
| 3 | erm another area of my work is as I er writing workshops , the writing workshops are very different from the normal writing workshops there based at galleries and they take groups of people round an exhibition recording their comments on either one particular picture or the exhibition as a whole and then with my help we put the comments into poems that are then displayed along side the exhibits , erm this work I do with erm all sorts of people with children people with special needs , disabled people and , and that 's really where my interest in art erm comes in and I find that its a great leveller for people who would like to express themselves and have perhaps have difficulty by aiding , by looking at paintings and being able to see perhaps emotions or images that they , they feel themselves , so in all areas erm I find painting in my areas of work , painting influences me and has done for as , as long as I can remember . |
| 4 | Micro-organisms may be instrumental in many commonly observed microforms in limestones , but the precise nature of their role is as yet poorly known . |
| 5 | And that the reality of her love was as it had been in the wood : she should never marry anyone else , whatever happened . |
| 6 | Burun 's chief wife was small and slim , handsome in the way that unremarkable women sometimes are when they have matured past the need for beauty , and the red-gold of her hair was as yet unmarred by the silver which would have betrayed her age . |
| 7 | He spent the night in anguish , but later in some hope ; Dinah was spirited ; surely she would not endure this decision of her father 's as to her future ? |
| 8 | To this the magazine responded : " We note that Mr Arkell 's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you could inform us what his attitude to damages would be , were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows : fuck off " . |
| 9 | The objectives of the Unit as laid out in its constitution are as follows : to undertake industrial relations research of a long-term multidisciplinary character ; to contribute towards improving the quality of data and of understanding that is available for industrial relations policy-making by government , employers and trade unions ; to provide for a concentration of resources and continuity of work and thereby improve career opportunities for research workers and facilitate large-scale research projects ; to enhance the quality of industrial relations teaching and research activity of the School of Industrial and Business Studies ; to be a national and international centre for industrial relations research and to attract suitable visiting researchers and research students to the University . |
| 10 | Choices of ends , as of means , are debatable in terms of public tests ( of whether things are in fact as the agent imagines them , whether his reactions as observed in his behaviour are as he feels them to be ) , but can take account of public observations only to the extent that they are subjectively confirmed . |
| 11 | My father had left , but everything apart from his absence was as it had been . |
| 12 | The proportions in our sample were as follows : Type 1 , 8 per cent ; Type 2 , 50 per cent ; Type 3 , 39 per cent ; Type 4 , 3 per cent . |
| 13 | ‘ I shall go to my mother 's as soon as my discharge from the army comes through . ’ |
| 14 | But , thanks to the sunny summer , many of the topmost specimens on my tree are as flushed with orange and pink as the imported stock from Australia . |
| 15 | He remembered little things — childhood images trapped in memory : his father 's hand laid momentarily on his mother 's as they sat at table ; laughter from their bedroom at night ; his mother straightening his father 's tie and drawing her finger in a delicate gesture along his cheek . |
| 16 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |