Example sentences of "as [pers pn] be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am as sure of it as I am of this water . ’ |
| 2 | Almost as frightened as I am of this gang . ’ |
| 3 | Nevertheless , as long as I am in this world I remain a sinner , still capable of letting him down . |
| 4 | I had never been so tempted to hit any man as I was at that moment . |
| 5 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 6 | Once again , I 'm stuck , as trapped as I was in that tree — and I do n't think a well-timed lightning bolt from Lil will spring me this time . |
| 7 | As soon as I 'm over this bit , we 'll just melt away in the fog one morning and send everybody postcards . |
| 8 | Is it strange going thousands of miles away to Australia and finding out that you 're as known there as you are on this island ? |
| 9 | She was an enterprising cook , as she was in all things , and fed her family well . |
| 10 | … ’ bit once the sun and beer has gone to the head and we 're talking as we are after this weekend severe overcooking . |
| 11 | Now if we took this view about parental investment theory , it would immediately erm concentrate our attention if we 're talking about human beings as we are in this course on er one critical factor which er is astonishingly important and that is er body fat . |
| 12 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 13 | The sexual feelings were there , and were overwhelming , as they are to many teenagers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Surveys are a way of life with an I B M. as they are in many companies today . |
| 18 | American guests are famous for deep ties and they hope they will consider themselves at home as long as they are in this country . |
| 19 | I 've considered doing part-time work … but its almost impossible now with things as they are in this area . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Singer s own argument was that trees , lacking as they are in any capacity for suffering , can not have interests . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time . |
| 28 | Sir Daniel bade his brother Roger , then living at Coniston Hall , make a report on the mines as they were at that time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |