Example sentences of "as they be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sexual feelings were there , and were overwhelming , as they are to many teenagers . |
| 2 | The machines are very good quality , Schaller-style but presumably Gotoh , gold-plated — as they are on all O.C. Smith guitars — and dead smooth to use . |
| 3 | The Crime Survey is a victimisation study and its main conclusion is one that has been noted , in a less systematic way , many times before : working-class crime is a problem , and it is a problem for the working class , since they are its principal victims , as they are of all types of crime : |
| 4 | It should be noted that the two marks and are being used for two different purposes in this course , as they are in many phonetics books . |
| 5 | Surveys are a way of life with an I B M. as they are in many companies today . |
| 6 | American guests are famous for deep ties and they hope they will consider themselves at home as long as they are in this country . |
| 7 | I 've considered doing part-time work … but its almost impossible now with things as they are in this area . |
| 8 | The human eye is very sensitive to green and the visible differences between the samples , small as they are in some cases , corresponded to a smaller difference in the reflected light levels . |
| 9 | We have to look at the range of ideals which are somehow clustered together to guide us , arrayed as they are in some sort of a rough priority system , and take out of its slot the unquestioned ideal ‘ be a man ’ . |
| 10 | These can not be explained simply in terms of shared descent ( as they were in some multicultural accounts of ethnicity ) or a shared socio-economic location and history ( as they are in some antiracist versions of ‘ the black experience ’ ) . |
| 11 | Significantly , with the statistics classified as they are in these data sets , the lowest level of risk occurs when younger women keep at least two-three year intervals between consecutive births and four or five years elapse in the later reproductive ages . |
| 12 | Singer s own argument was that trees , lacking as they are in any capacity for suffering , can not have interests . |
| 13 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 14 | To begin with , he thought I was as close to Steve and Paul as they were to each other — and they were like a single amoeba that wo n't let anyone else into its world . |
| 15 | The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time . |
| 16 | Sir Daniel bade his brother Roger , then living at Coniston Hall , make a report on the mines as they were at that time . |
| 17 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |
| 18 | Or , again , the Crusades might be seen , as they were in much propaganda , as wars fought to defend fellow Christians suffering physically at the hands of the Muslim world — those who took part being ‘ fired by the ardour of charity ’ towards their brothers . |
| 19 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 20 | Yes , I , I was actually just saying to my wife last night , erm , who would have ever thought that in the same year , we could have lost two of the greatest wing-halves , as they were in those days , but I suppose mid-field players they 'd be known as today , who 'd |
| 21 | So the chief basis of argument must be indirect : when the relations of production are as they were in this case , people will make history of this kind . |