Example sentences of "as [adj] [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this basis we can say that the vast majority of families with an unskilled manual worker as sole earner were at best only marginally above that line . |
| 2 | Much of the equipment that is presented as pre-reading material is in fact using these ideas of matching , pairing and visual discrimination , which are equally necessary in the foundation experiences for mathematics . |
| 3 | We are looking to the ILEA and Sports Council to support this , but a small charge might be necessary as this day is over and above the normal QT days . |
| 4 | Ladies and gentlemen erm about three years ago we finally decided to restore this car that you see behind us and although it was er an impossible task at times we , we carried on regardless and I hope that you 'll agree that everything you see today , plus the fact that seeing everybody out here , I think we , you 'll agree we made the right decision and er we feel that as long as this car is in this position that nobody 'll erm have any doubts who the Three- Ninetieth Group were and er , I think er , I think we 're all proud of this day particularly . |
| 5 | Where boys are most likely to drop this stance is when a whole group is having a go at a particular character , as this group is with Dot Cotton : |
| 6 | As this area is in Cabus Parish I have been asked to contact you to see if your council can do anything about this matter . |
| 7 | But as he was profoundly unconvincing , and as another place is at present still considering the English position , I would not wish to force the point on the House . |
| 8 | He was soon making explicit , too , a fundamental teleological analogy , in which changing conditions are to sexual generation as sexual crossing is to asexual generation . |
| 9 | Our bar lunches , for example , are as reasonable as any hotel 's in the area . |
| 10 | Altogether Höll 's weight and authority are as impressive as any pianist 's in this work . |
| 11 | The most base instincts — the desire for food or sex — were , he argued , all that one could ever find in the unshaped man , and human nature was as indifferent to good or evil as free-flowing water is to the shape it eventually fills . ’ |
| 12 | Burdensome as royal taxation was during the war , the clergy were mercifully free of papal taxation except on two occasions . |
| 13 | But before then there is another Guardian debate ( Saturday , NFT1 , 2.15 ) which , if it is half as argumentative as last weekend 's about the South African cinema , ought to be well worth attending . |
| 14 | As Holy Communion was by tradition the first food and drink of the day , the tea left a feeling of guilt for I was told never to tell anyone although I expect it was a common practice amongst lady communicants . |