Example sentences of "[noun pl] as he be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Built in an age of faith , the tower had stood as a symbol , too , of that final unquenchable hope that even the sea would yield up her dead and that their God was God of the waters as he was of the land . |
| 2 | Directing the building of what appeared to be a large fortification , Ross was clearly enjoying himself as he laughed and joked with the children , as perfectly at ease in these casual , unsophisticated surroundings as he was in the cosmopolitan offices of a smart City boardroom . |
| 3 | But he was far from the political revolutionary which many observers thought him to be and as adapt at cooling the passions of the men as he was at arousing them . |
| 4 | As proud of his Keighley ancestry on both sides as he was of his ‘ liberal principles ’ , he claimed that his ancestors had fought at Flodden . |
| 5 | He is therefore at much at risk from violence in his office of constable out of uniform and office hours as he is in them . |
| 6 | His introduction will be no walk-over but if he is half as good over fences as he was over hurdles , he should win . |