Example sentences of "as [pron] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real Summit , as everyone is now well aware , was to be held in Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Just tell me one last thing : as everyone is so busy wiping out the memory of the last 40 odd years , do you still want to keep your military headstone with its red star ? |
| 3 | ‘ As everyone is so fond of reminding me , ’ Nogai met Burun 's eyes , ‘ my death would not cause a ripple in the affairs of the Khanate . |
| 4 | Then there 's another ten cold minutes waiting since the East End service is only twice as good as ours , and twice as good as nothing is not much . |
| 5 | It is ill mannered to stand around gossiping , as nothing is more irritating to a person waiting for attention . |
| 6 | When dealing with a telephone enquiry it is essential that all the necessary information is at the fingertips of the receptionist as nothing is more irritating on the telephone than hesitancy through lack of knowledge or being asked to hang on whilst information is being looked up — and always have alternatives to offer if the first choice is not available . |
| 7 | When we were outside the house , where no one could hear us , she said : ‘ As nobody is out at this time I thought it would be nice to go to that field which is full of melons . |
| 8 | was delighted to tell you that we have already received our first nomination for this position in 1992. has been nominated and seconded and , as she is not a current elected member of the Executive Committee , it has been decided to invite her to the remaining Executive meetings as an observer so that she gets used to how the Society functions . |
| 9 | She would n't be as popular as she is today if I had n't guided her career . |
| 10 | Two superb views of RN228 as she is today ( as G-USTV ) from the lens of RAF Public Relations photographer Sgt Rick Brewell . |
| 11 | Carole Ann Ford , who played Susan , the Doctor 's granddaughter , as she is today . |
| 12 | Real people : Sibylle Alexander as she is today and pictured with the Kaufmann family at Christmas 1942 . |
| 13 | Yelena Prokina skilfully using Mussorgsky 's rapid melodic fragments to suggest her terror as she is about to succumb to rape , Andrey Khovansky pursuing her with the exaggeration of the weak man who is over-asserting himself . |
| 14 | My mother I can hardly see save as she is now while I am writing . |
| 15 | I like to think that Miranda will survive her crisis and not be as depressed and defeated as she is now . |
| 16 | Well , Mrs Newton , as she is now , was fairly monosyllabic until I promised that the Daily News would send her a little present . |
| 17 | " She was exactly the same as she is now , but she took the trouble to hide the fact . |
| 18 | The foreman said that the girl was lying on her back , her hands folded , as she is now . ’ |
| 19 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 20 | As she is now studying fell-time for the Ministry , she resigned from the post at the end of October , 1991 , and we have appointed another worker , Mrs . |
| 21 | ‘ The mistress became — as she is now . |
| 22 | ABOVE : Fighting from the podium in 1969 ; LEFT : Dancing with husband Ted ; RIGHT : As she is now , aged 82 , and still fighting By Diana Pulson |
| 23 | But as they do , it 's gon na hit her cos it 's not year that it does n't help , see if she 's in a third year class , she was always as she is now , in the top of that , but even |
| 24 | Her Frenchness , and whiteness , seem very much under threat as she is always surrounded by Africans , and Africa . |
| 25 | And if her husband comes back , as he is apparently hinting he might , or if she moves , or gets a job , as she is always threatening to do if he does n't , or if my colleagues in the DSS find out that I am paying her , then even this hopeless arrangement will come to an end and I shall be back to the agencies and the advertisements , back to the interviews and the references , back to strangers in the house . |
| 26 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 27 | She took the punchcard pattern from a magazine , but the ‘ tooth ’ was too large a pattern as she is very small . |
| 28 | All that energy for comparatively few sales , but she will get them for the paperback as she is very much the rising star of Black American fiction . |
| 29 | As she is only three you will need a lot of patience and persistence to get the message across , but do keep trying , otherwise her bossiness could leave her on the wrong side of the fence from her friends . |
| 30 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |