Example sentences of "[noun sg] as he be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 32 | Tomorrow night , Ferguson will get the chance against Germany to prove that Hateley is as accurate in his judgement as he is in front of goal . |
| 33 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy is fighting for life in Walton Hospital today after being hit by a van as he was on his way to school . |
| 34 | The most genuinely modest personality it is my pleasure to know , George had to be bullied by a number of us to sit for his sculpture by Archie Forrest who could well be considered as adept with clay as he is with paint . |
| 35 | The man was as insensitive to language as he was to people . |
| 36 | The eighteenth-century chemist and Unitarian minister Joseph Priestley ( 1733–1804 ) was as keen to remove spirits from Christianity as he was from chemistry . |
| 37 | You two should get along like a house on fire as he 's by way of being quite an authority on horses these days . |
| 38 | He was almost as hostile to his own mother as he was to Elinor 's , even though the politesse observed by his family meant he had not yet worked out a way of expressing it . |