Example sentences of "as [pers pn] might be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once seen , it gives us back a legitimate access to a great wealth of traditional human experience on the matter , which must of course be critically used , but which certainly does not leave us utterly puzzled , as we might be in starting to observe a strange species . |
| 2 | No one in the room is excluded , as they might be from a maths activity that some of them ca n't do ; or from a games session , where physical prowess is such an important factor . |
| 3 | Two very important indexing journals not always used as much as they might be by social researchers are the British Humanities Index and the Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin . |
| 4 | Quilts were what you lay on to sunbathe that summer , not for warmth on beds , but slung for lounging comfort as it might be on some Damascus rooftop . |
| 5 | The one I have chosen is this — brief , informal letters , written from time to time as our work proceeds , in a plain , straightforward style , as it might be to a friend . |
| 6 | … as it might be to a friend . |
| 7 | When this is not the case , as with non-Western cultures ( and as it might be with deaf people ) , then the theories produced may be of limited value . |
| 8 | His briefer letters to Harry Hooton — avoiding those ‘ terrible letters I used to throw at you last term as it might be from the fruitless monotony of this place ’ — now explain his reading . |
| 9 | The flights of stairs ended in galleries with pine balustrades and all the heavy , badly carved dark-stained woodwork was pine , as it might be in a church . |
| 10 | To be sure it is not always functioning ‘ with all the stops out ’ as it might be in a problem-solving task . |
| 11 | I asked her to prepare everything as it might be in America , so that you would feel at home . |
| 12 | But how likely was Dr. Greene , experienced as he might be in viewing bodies , to disagree with the opinion of a consultant forensic pathologist unless the latter 's judgment was manifestly perverse ? |