Example sentences of "[noun sg] as he be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was just as at home behind the wheel of a Sports Car as he was in a Grand Prix car , and his passion for all branches of the sport possible hindered his quest for the world title . |
| 2 | He was as pathetically unqualified in the art of murder as he was at golf or philosophy . |
| 3 | William Mullen , who worked with Beattie in the Lanarkshire Steel works , is as convinced today of Geordie 's innocence as he was on the morning the police arrived there to arrest Beattie . |
| 4 | Let me read you those tremendous ver words from John , first John in chapter one , says if we walk in the light as he is in the light , he or your fellowship with one another , and the blood of Jesus , his son , cleanses us from all sins . |
| 5 | He may not , however , have sat in the final term as he was under sentence of excommunication , possibly for his part in the battle of Lewes . |
| 6 | He also shows a healthy disrespect for the over-specialised , and is as much at home with the nuts and bolts of medical practice as he is with basic research in the laboratory . |
| 7 | But they were still respectful to the Emperor ; as fellow-Muslims they were part of the group that had dominated India for centuries , and it is unlikely that he was nearly as worried by their attitude as he was by the threat of Persian invasions like the one that led to Delhi being captured and plundered in 1739 , or by the rebellious Marathas of western India , Hindu in religion and devoted to cavalry raids to plunder their neighbours . |
| 8 | He kept asking her to get to the point as he was in a meeting , while she was waiting for him to get to the point , since , as far as she was aware , he 'd made the call to her in the first place . |
| 9 | He is as interested in perfecting a paint finish that is redolent of a medieval misericord as he is in capturing the ephemeral nature of a Polaroid in the lines of a perspex chair . |
| 10 | Hitler was never again to be at the centre of public attention as he was for a while following the plot of 20 July 1944 . |
| 11 | A 16-year-old youth is in hospital with serious head injuries after an accident as he was on his way to school . |
| 12 | Throughout the 1930s , Ernest Bevin was the dominant figure on this body as he was at Labour Party conferences , shaping Labour 's domestic and foreign policy . |
| 13 | She was as individualistic as Rokovssky , as much in love with her own competence as he was with his . |
| 14 | God is not as interested in getting us through a conflict as he is in how we respond to it . |
| 15 | Writing as he was in the 1930s , he expressed his pleasure at the extensive documentation and reference material available to the student of art , instancing the growth of libraries and art historical teaching . |
| 16 | Adam 's apparent lack of concern enraged Mike , as hurt by his brother 's treachery as he was by the theft . |
| 17 | He 's just adjusting his outfit as he 's in the car driving up the Tadcaster road and he looks with horror . |
| 18 | The good player will be in the same position at impact as he was at address ( above left ) , while the bad player 's hands will be well forward of the ball at impact ( above right ) . |
| 19 | Les Cusworth was never as comfortable in a white jersey as he was in Leicester 's Christmas-tree outfit . |
| 20 | ‘ He is as far from being a man as he is from being a baby . ’ |
| 21 | Rex is as capable of making an honest mistake as he is of lying . |
| 22 | He is a collector 's item as full of hot air as he is of magical ideas . |
| 23 | Rhodes could well become a double international as he is in the South African national hockey squad , but so far the hockey union has n't followed cricket down the integration path and cricket at the moment takes first place on his agenda . |
| 24 | It crossed Harry 's mind that on the kind of salary he received — even if he was lucky enough to be paid as well by an English employer as he was by Wendell Harvey — Madeleine would not be able to afford designer dresses , or any other of those expensive luxuries she took for granted . |
| 25 | It is even possible that Mr Soros is as wrong about gold as he was about the 1987 stockmarket crash , when he lost something like $100m . |
| 26 | It is worth saying accordingly that Denethor , contrasted with Saruman as he is in other ways with Théoden , is an arch-conservative . |
| 27 | We trust he has seen his error and will become as respectable in his conduct as he is in his abilities . ’ |
| 28 | He belonged with them , They were like him , as undernourished in one way as he was in another . |
| 29 | His father would have expected him to be brave , would have told him that God was God of the darkness as He was of the light . |
| 30 | Certainly he was never again to be as actively interested in the company as he was in the late 1940s . |