Example sentences of "as they be and " in BNC.
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| 1 | We carry on with the gin , nobody paying any attention to my sentimental reminiscences , contradictory and literary as they are and unable to express my conflicting desire that England be an island in a timewarp and that the English behaved like Continentals . |
| 2 | Other findings were that 67 per cent think standards will decline in the next few years if things carry on as they are and that 77 per cent agree teachers do a good job in spite of everything . |
| 3 | Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way . |
| 4 | In any case , for as long as they remain as powerful as they are and until the country is ready for a proper comprehensive system the grammar school should be preserved : ‘ It would , moreover , be absurd from a socialist point of view to close down the grammar school , while leaving the public schools still holding their present commanding position . |
| 5 | Sister Mary Leahy , who organised the prayer week at Seacroft , explained the purpose of these personal interviews ; ‘ Prayer is a relationship with God , so as a prayer guide , I would want to help people to recognise God in their lives — relating person to person — speaking to God and listening to him — coming to God just as they are and not as they think they ought to be . ’ |
| 6 | Of course we could leave things as they are and just go our own ways , but it would n't work . |
| 7 | Leopards are after all quite as at home in the treetops as they are and on occasion are partial to monkey . |
| 8 | These forces have been described as ‘ Wallacian ’ ( Harper , 1977 ) , because they represent those agents of natural selection that were of more concern to Wallace than to Darwin in accounting for how organisms are as they are and behave as they do . |
| 9 | As Morgenthau put it : ‘ [ Realism ] believes … in the possibility of distinguishing in politics between truth and opinion — between what is true objectively and rationally , supported by evidence and illuminated by reason , and what is only a subjective judgment , divorced from the facts as they are and informed by prejudice and wishful thinking . ’ |
| 10 | We have highlighted the importance of recognising that the Constitution is subject to change in response to political conflicts , and so we have pointed to the need to study the Constitution ( and constitutional theory ) historically , politically and critically , with an eye to the tensions between things as they are and things as it is thought they are and should be . |
| 11 | Therefore the choice is between leaving things as they are and adopting a new definition which is different in substance . |
| 12 | But er some schemes have annual general meetings and elect people er some are quite content to leave things as they are and the volunteer carries on all the way through with it . |
| 13 | Alright and er you 're quite happy with things as they are and that ? |
| 14 | It was agreed to leave them as they are and to take no further action . |
| 15 | But it would n't have been so funny if the robbers were n't as stupid as they were and the film would n't have been so good . |
| 16 | Meanwhile they carried on as they were and that went very well . |
| 17 | and er with my son particularly earlier on in his career things were going round and round in circles and in the end I had to step in at one point , grab all the papers as they came past as they were and saying , come on . |
| 18 | I ca n't obviously give my Noble Friend an assurance that this will be done , but in due course er I would very much hope that it would be and when it is my Noble Friend will then be able to refer to that Act with total simplicity and find his way through it and with all the original Acts amended as they were and will be after this Act has been passed . |