Example sentences of "as they are [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 . |