Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [is] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As yours is low mileage , the cam followers will be OK to use again . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : And I to show I can defy your resentment will show you a countenance as intrepid as yours is lovely . |
| 3 | Sue 's mum 's little and fat , nearly as tall as she 's broad . |
| 4 | And as she 's five and a bit weeks old , it 's five weeks |
| 5 | I 'll be taking her back as soon as she 's well . ’ |
| 6 | There was no red carpet ; no Royal protocol for the Princess today , as she 's one of the team . |
| 7 | Well as long as she 's okay . |
| 8 | I was just going to say , I think Mrs Mrs 's really a answered the question as far as she 's able to do . |
| 9 | I 'm an irrelevance as far as she 's concerned . |
| 10 | My daughter says that as far as she 's concerned he no longer exists . |
| 11 | As far as she 's concerned I 've been drug-free since I come out of stir . |
| 12 | If she 's hauled in the office with me and there she 's she 's as far as she 's concerned she 's won . |
| 13 | yeah because the person er who 's job it is to deal with the sulks for want of a better phrase there is not is preferring not to tackle the issue because as far as she 's concerned it 's not affecting the efficiency of the office , that 's what I 'm trying to say and it 's not , in fact it 's added to the efficiency of the office if anything . |
| 14 | what it , what it was saying was in effect that the woman er so long as she 's free and and open sexually then she can have whatever she wants . |
| 15 | She ca n't look after the salon at lunchtimes , as she 's unable to answer the phone . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't care if she 's called the Quacking Duck just as long as she 's steady , ’ Charlotte replied . |
| 17 | Yvonne cares passionately about animal causes and is not averse to expressing her opinions in words and deeds — all the more remarkable as she is deaf . |
| 18 | A woman is born into one lineage but is transferred to her husband 's lineage as soon as she is married . |
| 19 | As soon as she is married and enters her husband 's family and clan group she is considered a potential source of danger , because her sexuality remains still incompletely controlled and its beneficiality as yet not proven through child-bearing . |
| 20 | When she meets other animals , walk on and ignore her — as she is timid of strange people , I think this will overrule her aggression towards a strange dog , and she will catch up very quickly . |
| 21 | The Glass Menagerie is partly autobiographical and describes the conflict between a son , Tom , who is drawn to the sensuality of D.H.Lawrence 's writings and who himself scribbles poems on shoe-boxes in the warehouse where he works , and a repressive and puritanical mother , Amanda , who is as passionately possessive of her children as she is unwilling to let go of her own lost youth . |
| 22 | As she is pure , she is fine enough for me . ’ |
| 23 | As she is impervious to his suggestions , he is determined to revive the old custom known as the droit du seigneur ( one of the most hated abuses of the Ancien Régime ) , whereby the lord of a manor was entitled to deflower his female servants before their weddings . |
| 24 | She has an extraordinary gift , as she is telekinetic and so has the power to make things happen through thought-transmission . |
| 25 | While the opening exchanges between the clerk and the girl are very cursory , they are sufficient to introduce all that is necessary for an audience to know : the girl is a " " damishel " " ( I. 1 ) , the interlocutor a man ( " " sir " " , I. 2 ) , and the girl is vulnerable as she is alone : ( " Where is your master , where is your mistress ? " |
| 26 | Winner of the Swan European Regatta in 1989 and a highly creditable 6th overall in the competitive Swan World Cup this year and consistently in the frame in UK waters , this well maintained 40-footer is as docile on Channel cruises as she is dynamic on the race course . |
| 27 | The stump she sits on is as dead as she is blind . |
| 28 | I ca n't remember any of the country because of me being such a young age , but my sister remembers more than I as she is older than myself . |
| 29 | AS COOL as she is beautiful , Selina Scott has the reputation of being one of Britain 's most secretive women . |
| 30 | He assured Lord Salisbury on his visit to England in the summer of 1929 that ( according to Salisbury 's notes of their conversation ) , though dominion status might be admitted as the ultimate goal , ‘ inasmuch as it is impossible to anticipate an India which could defend itself , and as it is unthinkable that a British army could be subject to native control — an essential condition of real Dominion status — the realisation of the aspiration is not within sight ’ . |