Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb mod] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll be taking over my job as cop winder , and when you do I 'll be promoted to the looms , just as you 'll be in time . ’ |
| 2 | So , with the finance arranged , it is back to Aladdin 's cave … be as careful choosing your loan as you will be in choosing your aircraft . |
| 3 | Police say they 're anxious to trace the mother as she may be in need of medical help . |
| 4 | This is particularly true for the female , as she must be in top condition to make good quality eggs prior to spawning . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's fine , Mum , or at least as fine as she could be in the circumstances . |
| 6 | We could , of course , try sympathetic detonation by dropping a depth charge on it but as we would be in the immediate vicinity at the time I do n't think that would be a very good idea . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could be in doing statistically valid trials ’ |
| 9 | True , these sources overlap , different as they may be in the nature of their risk , difficulty , and complexity , and the potential for innovation may well lie in more than one area at a time . |
| 10 | Where a number of service points are involved — as they would be in a centrally organized stock revision for a public library authority — the choice of locations for titles ordered is an additional complication . |
| 11 | It has been known , but parents who do such a thing are as disliked as they would be in any society , and such marriages are often barren . |
| 12 | Travellers are often forced to live in exposed public situations where social inequality and harsh conditions are not hidden from more affluent members of society as they would be in an outlying council estate or an inner city back street . |
| 13 | This means that at any frequency , sound waves in water are nearly five times as long as they would be in air , and so provide poorer resolution . |
| 14 | When the Liberals were defeated , as they would be in due course , it would be they , and not the Labour Party , who would take the Opposition front bench . |
| 15 | The myriad instruments and switches initially make the cockpits appear complex , but they are actually about as straightforward as they could be in a jet trainer deliberately well-equipped with supplementary systems ( although the snug front cockpit demands good house-keeping discipline with charts and lwt-down books ) . |
| 16 | The typical small businessman in Hong Kong now has business interests in southern China , to complement his existing connections through kinship , and would much prefer that a cheaper project be put in place , with a view to the needs of Greater Hong Kong as they will be in the 21st century — this after full consultation with the Chinese authorities . |
| 17 | The two are not being played in the First XV at the moment because they will not be available for the league matches , as they will be in Australia and Fiji with the national squad . |
| 18 | The tactile consciousness too , powerful as it may be in intimate contact , can not represent our wide apprehension of the world to so marked a degree . |
| 19 | For the concomitant of Callinicos ' critique of postmodernism is not , as it would be in half a hundred other cases , the defence of modernism . |
| 20 | We rarely saw its summit , lost as it would be in thick mist , but its mystery made it all the more attractive and seductive . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the Labour Party continues to be as inadequate in Opposition as it would be in government . |
| 22 | The aim of treatment is not for a young child to lose weight as it would be in an adult , but to maintain their weight or make below normal weight gain ( Dietz 1984 ) . |
| 23 | Alternatively , we may say that the plates are so close to each other ( as it would be in a practical diode ) that the electron beam has n't got a chance to spread . |
| 24 | I shall assume that the zoological species Homo sapiens is indeed a unity in the sense that in the hypothetical absence of all cultural restraints interbreeding between the members of any randomly selected human population of randomly selected individuals would be random , just as it would be in a randomly selected pack of mongrel dogs provided always that particular individual dogs were prevented from asserting dominance over their neighbours . |
| 25 | This would pose a problem if natural illumination were used , as it would be in a field setting or greenhouse . |
| 26 | Each play was presented on a single set , as it would be in a theatre . |
| 27 | For example , while the /r/ of person is pronounced ( as it would be in JC ) [ P15 ] , the speaker has also pronounced /r/ in mother , where it is less usual for Jamaicans to pronounce it , and at the end of Jamaica , where it does not occur historically at all . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | To be sure it is not always functioning ‘ with all the stops out ’ as it might be in a problem-solving task . |
| 30 | I asked her to prepare everything as it might be in America , so that you would feel at home . |