Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [am/are] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unused as I am to public scribbling , and tardy to boot ( I 've just read your December/January issue ) , I felt I had to thank you for saving me time and trouble ( not to mention hard-won shekels ) , in a search for something which obviously does not exist . |
| 2 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 3 | That 's Captain J.B.J. Noel — the 1922 and 1924 cameraman — talking to Blessed , and I 'm as willing to give credence to that as I am to Simon Fraser 's dream of Tilman 's end . |
| 4 | The reception , a buffet , so glad you could come , yes did n't she , yes I am , O ha ha Uncle Tom 's sozzled ha ha good old Uncle Tom , accustomed as I am to public speaking , a glass of champagne cider each , I give you the Bride 's parents I My own parents looking a bit sick of all the tipsy Irish . |
| 5 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 6 | The evening event was thoroughly enjoyable with several awards being made , whilst Graham Crowe delivered one of his ‘ unaccustomed as I am to making short speeches ’ . |
| 7 | However , the point you have to erm , recall , is that if it 's a conflict between parental investment in a sibling and parental investment in myself , I am twice as closely related to myself as I am to my sibling . |
| 8 | ‘ But you , Bethlehem … small as you are to be among Judah 's clans , out of you shall come forth a governor for Israel , one whose roots are far back in the past , in days gone by . |
| 9 | Higueras warned Jim , ‘ Once a player is as close as you are to being number one in the world , the adjustments should be fractional in your game . |
| 10 | I will therefore , sir , dear as you are to me , give up your person to the happier , to my worthier rival . |
| 11 | We are therefore committed to continue managing rivers , as we are to managing every square mile of the English countryside . |
| 12 | Accustomed as we are to the damp rigours of most Scottish self-catering properties , the Rannoch flats and apartments seem like paradise . |
| 13 | The fathers were as close to the New Testament as we are to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | This is the sort of situation which leads to our distinguishing ‘ ourselves as we feel ourselves to be ’ and ‘ ourselves as we are to others ’ . |
| 15 | The most bizarre of all these techniques , at least to our eyes , prejudiced as we are to a mammalian way of doing things , is that practised by Rhinoderma , a tiny frog that Darwin found in Southern Chile . |
| 16 | A student , faced with discourse slightly beyond his or her current knowledge , is in the same position relative to that discourse as we are to the above . |
| 17 | The sickness of morning is already upon us , unaccustomed as we are to being up so early . |
| 18 | The sexual feelings were there , and were overwhelming , as they are to many teenagers . |
| 19 | Dampness and lack of ventilation are as welcoming to insects as they are to wood fungi and once these conditions are rectified the beetles will feel less inclined to stay . |
| 20 | Overall the cost of a funeral often comes as a big shock to people and the vicar 's fees , peripheral as they are to the main bill , come in for lots of cynical comments like ‘ Even at a time like this , the church is making money . ’ |
| 21 | The figures from the United Kingdom , acknowledged as they are to be the most accurate , still underestimate the true incidence of infection . |
| 22 | It is unclear at this stage if direct comparison can be made with Behrensmeyer 's weathering categories , applied as they are to large mammal weathering in tropical climates , but as a provisional estimate these changes will be attributed to her stage 2 . |
| 23 | In their Narratives of love and loss ( 1987 , pp.1–2 ) they have set out ‘ to understand and … explain the astonishing emotional depth and moving power of works which might at first sight appear deceptively simple to adult readers , written as they are to be read by children ’ . |
| 24 | The tuners are Jackson-stamped Gotohs and have proved in the past to be man enough for the job , relegated as they are to being mere anchor points for the strings , taking into account the Floyd Rose licensed tremolo employed here . |
| 25 | The dates of these visits will be given to you as soon as they are to hand . |
| 26 | Presents from returning travellers or presents for your hostess are as much a sign of manners to the hareem as they are to us . |
| 27 | Since the node-link-node triples are not as meaningful to readers as they are to those who made the semantic net , the author may place any phrase in the margin . |
| 28 | Mark Watson and John Warwick , joint co-ordinators , who double as NISW consultant and information officer respectively , are happy to talk to those who have no more idea about what they want to do than , say , look at child abuse in Texas , as they are to someone who can build on a clutch of ready-made contacts . |
| 29 | The attainment of that general purpose and the nature of the scheme are prima facie as appropriate to the case of an unregistered company as they are to the case of a registered company . |
| 30 | All these features are as relevant to running a high-quality home for mentally disordered people as they are to selling hamburgers , and many services are now devising rules for ‘ human ’ care which can be monitored in exactly the same way , covering aspects of the physical environment , care practices and procedures and ‘ customer satisfaction ’ with the service . |