Example sentences of "[being] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was being friendly as usual to Bambi , frostier in pale turquoise with pearls . |
| 2 | At the time there seemed good reasons for this assumption , the United States being irreplaceable as mediator with Israel . |
| 3 | It is thought that the platelet is necessary for the maintenance of normal vascular integrity in that patients with thrombocytopaenia show a generalised haemorrhagic tendency and bruising when the platelet count falls below about 5 × 10 9 /1 , spontaneous bruising and more severe bleeding being possible as the platelet count falls below 20 × 10 9 /1 . |
| 4 | And in fact Frau Nordern was not being polite as Herr Nordern drove the Lada in a wobbly course down Klara-Lettkin-Strasse . |
| 5 | And although we often hear about different jobs being of different sorts of status , they 're on a ladder of status , its for unemployed people the situation is very often as if you 've actually been kicked off this ladder and this is what people say when they describe being unemployed as being on the scrap heap and so on , it 's as if you 've been expelled from this particular world where erm people respect you for having a job and know that you 're contributing . |
| 6 | Eva never speaks of being afraid as the various political situations blew up even though at times it must have been rather like walking a tightrope after UDI . |
| 7 | French Basques seem happy to go on being French as well as Basque . |
| 8 | We were lucky last week cos half of us have got netball , half of us have got hockey , but last week because it was raining it was too bad for the hockey people to go out cos they co , with it being dark as well so we , we just stayed inside . |
| 9 | In the General Prologue portrait of the Reeve — a portrayal which leans heavily on conventional attitudes of hostility towards the lords ' men , the peasant officials amongst the peasants , in medieval English satire — the Reeve is presented as a man who provokes suspicion and fear : and as a man who , by being identifiable as one of a type rather than an individual , attracts the prejudices associated with that type . |
| 10 | The attendance allowance , being payable as of right , must be declared as income for tax purposes , but any expenses wholly and necessarily incurred in the performance of the duty ( and not otherwise reimbursed ) may be set off against it . |
| 11 | The corporate finance unit at house broker Smith New Court confessed to being ignorant as to what was going on . |
| 12 | Nevertheless there were times when Alexander Ramsay had to admit to himself that he found all this , essential and worth while as it certainly was , somehow less than satisfying after all the excitements of the recent past ; a feeling of being understretched as it were , less than fully challenged . |
| 13 | Her eyes were weird enough as it was without being bloodshot as well . |
| 14 | Er Noble Lords er know a good precedent erm y you just but I 've never seen one before and erm so far of course perhaps I 'm being unfair as there has n't been the opportunity to do so , but so far we have had no explanation from the Government as to how that list i it is proposed shall be compiled |
| 15 | Having read about the way in which Adam and Eve were beguiled out of the garden , Christians settle for being innocent as doves and leave others to be wise as serpents . |
| 16 | ( Note , however , that ‘ better ’ covers less bad , or being good as opposed to being bad , as well as degree of goodness . ) |
| 17 | I stopped being blind as my feet squelched over marshy ground where common spotted orchids grew to pick my way across medieval ridge-and-furrow pasture . |
| 18 | After leaving The Clash ( and being name-checked as ‘ Tory Crimes ’ on the sleeve of ‘ The Clash ’ ) , original drummer Terry Chimes joined Bowie clones Cowboys International . |
| 19 | In the later phase of Mrs Thatcher 's government , Britain was in danger of being rudderless as nothing very obvious came to succeed this older source of authority . |
| 20 | Any man if he is alone becomes more aware of being lonely as he ages . |
| 21 | Being undemanding as to most conditions this should be the first choice of every aquarist . |
| 22 | A clenched fist , a frosty stare or a head-thrust , feet-planted , arms-akimbo posture , being recognizable as proper parts or adjuncts to acts of real violence , can stand in for the real thing in the ritualized ‘ aggression ’ to be described in a later chapter of this book . |
| 23 | In the fourth and fifth years , in addition to being available as separate examination options , art , music , drama and dance are involved in a compulsory multi-media course for all pupils . |
| 24 | Using a bank overdraft , would incur an interest cost , with tax capital allowances being available as above . |
| 25 | When the acceptance condition ( ie acceptance in respect of over 50 per cent of the voting rights in the target ) attached to an offer is satisfied , the offer is described as being unconditional as to acceptances . |
| 26 | Let's hope they do , that 's Nick Harris being optimistic as always . |
| 27 | Of course , nature being unjust as ever , I have no biological clock of my own . |
| 28 | They were n't so much being difficult as simply teasing , and it made for a very amusing if unproductive hour . |
| 29 | This view forcibly made by Simon claims that land is like any other resource which , far from being finite as for example , the Club of Rome world models assumed ( Meadows et al. |
| 30 | Alone , the two girls were playful as they went about their tasks , mischievous at times , even carefully boisterous ; but as soon as their father came in they would sink into a beseeching drabness , cower as close to being invisible as they could . |