Example sentences of "[prep] be as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew he was disappointing where the riding was concerned , although no one had actually told him so — the whole business of being as one with the animal he rode seemed to elude him . |
| 2 | I was pleased that he was more diplomatic afterwards instead of being as over the top as ever . |
| 3 | The thematic of historicity … has always been required by the determination of Being as presence … |
| 4 | This also comes into being as we couple reading the Bible with prayer . |
| 5 | The world itself is presented as a kind of self-projection of Geist , in which it brings itself into being as Nature , and so as over against itself ( thesis and antithesis ) . |
| 6 | And time boiled back into being as the touch of his lips sent a shaft of fire down to sear her inside . |
| 7 | In Nils Enkvist 's words , " styles come into being as aggregates of probabilities of expression in situational contexts , or , more briefly , as aggregates of contextual probabilities " ( p. 129 ) . |
| 8 | they 'd got ta be as I could n't go to them |
| 9 | The principles that the therapist and patient should adhere to are as follows . |
| 10 | Basically every day is an effort , that 's the reality , and there 's a great tendency to want life to be as it was . |
| 11 | Basically every day is an effort , that 's the reality , and there 's a great tendency to want life to be as it was . |
| 12 | That 's the reality ; you want life to be as it was . |
| 13 | I want it to be as though I had never been . |
| 14 | I want it to be as though I had never taken that turning . |
| 15 | As a whole , this grand spectacle was a rare hit with what seemed to be as varied an audience as any opera company is likely to find these days . |
| 16 | The right to be as fucked up as men . |
| 17 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 18 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 19 | Things do not have to be as they are . |
| 20 | Is it to be as before ? |
| 21 | With the National Youth Orchestra conducted at Glasgow 's Royal Concert Hall by Christopher Seaman , this promises to be as sparkling an occasion as ever . |
| 22 | Though Cognitive–Behavioural Marital Therapy has consistently been found to be as or more effective than any other type of marital therapy , nevertheless in terms of the proportion of clients that actually improve , the results are quite modest . |
| 23 | Plastics are not the villain they are made out to be as regards the volume of waste . |
| 24 | We , Barnabas James Thomas and Joseph Jex Taylor both of 1 Victoria Street , Westminster , Civil Engineers , and Gordon Cale Thomas of Marsworth in the County of Bucks. , Civil Engineer , do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows : — |
| 25 | We , Barnabas James Thomas and Joseph Jex Taylor , both of 1 Victoria Street , Westminster , Civil Engineers ; and Gordon Cale Thomas of Marsworth , in the County of Bucks. , Civil Engineer , do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows : — |
| 26 | The responsibilities of the two departments were to be as follows : the education authorities who operated a service under the 1910 Act had to confine themselves to ‘ interviewing , advising , registering and selecting juvenile applicants ’ , while the labour exchanges would ‘ register vacancies , place juveniles with employers and oversee their progress during the early years of employment ’ . |
| 27 | The average relative abundances of all skeletal elements for three species of owl were found to be as follows : great horned owl , 51.5 per cent ; barn owl , 62.7 per cent ; and screech owl , 46.5 per cent ( Dodson & Wexlar , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | The four outcomes that can result are taken to be as labelled in the Box ( over page ) . |
| 29 | The summary of this American experience seems to be as follows : |
| 30 | She can enjoy the last freedom to be as she is ; her pursuits may seem strange , but after her death it may be discovered that her treasured collection — of old cups , pressed flowers , or newspaper cuttings — is quite priceless . |