Example sentences of "as they be for " in BNC.
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| 31 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 32 | Important as they were for historians of the future , and as a source for scholarship generally , public records generated less political and academic controversy then than later . |
| 33 | Similarly , it has been shown that tsunami , or " tidal waves " as they were for long mis-named , have an immense effect on shore-lines , both in erosion and in the shifting of great quantities of sediment . |