Example sentences of "[vb pp] as they be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , his action provoked significant comment from Treasury permanent secretaries , committed as they were to a Gladstonian ideology of ‘ cheap government ’ and to the subordination of the extravagant missionary zeal of medical reformers . |
| 2 | In particular they lamented the fact that applicants for enrolment as students were no longer interviewed as they were until the late 1970's . |
| 3 | Their arrival could hardly have gone unremarked , preceded as they were by a number of attendants with trunks , hatboxes and assorted luggage , a little yapping pomeranian on a lead … |
| 4 | Nigel 's arrangement of the white slaves , as he called the domestic machines , positioned as they were on the first floor , entailed many journeys upstairs to inspect their progress . |
| 5 | In their Narratives of love and loss ( 1987 , pp.1–2 ) they have set out ‘ to understand and … explain the astonishing emotional depth and moving power of works which might at first sight appear deceptively simple to adult readers , written as they are to be read by children ’ . |
| 6 | It is unclear at this stage if direct comparison can be made with Behrensmeyer 's weathering categories , applied as they are to large mammal weathering in tropical climates , but as a provisional estimate these changes will be attributed to her stage 2 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Such principles of professional practice , measured as they are in terms of the client 's perspective on the relationship , are , on the face of it , clear and straightforward . |
| 9 | In India , army officers in the Company 's service were advanced by time promotion , mitigated in some degree by considerations of evident merit , and commissions were not openly bought and sold as they were in the British army . |
| 10 | For the purpose of this guide these terms will be used as they are in themselves descriptive of the types of valuation report we may be asked to prepare , although naturally our clients will not use this terminology . |
| 11 | Each time I 'd wondered how they carried such a heavy load : how the pine-needles even stuck together , bound as they were with a single length of rope . |
| 12 | The tuners are Jackson-stamped Gotohs and have proved in the past to be man enough for the job , relegated as they are to being mere anchor points for the strings , taking into account the Floyd Rose licensed tremolo employed here . |
| 13 | This may in turn have caused the forelegs of prosauropods ( the Triassic forerunners of sauropods ) to become more massive , stimulated as they were by the repeated dropping onto all fours when moving slowly . |
| 14 | Such , therefore , should be the character in the followers of Jesus , called as they were to be ‘ holy ’ or ‘ separated to God ’ as his special possession ( I Pet . |
| 15 | It 's proper that we should be asking in the context of these proposals for boundary changes , affected as they are by the decision of the er first of all the French national assembly and now the French government to make life difficult for the other member states as far as the ratification of these proposals are concerned , it 's right that we should be asking what is the position of the British government in relation to these matters . |
| 16 | But there is a natural barrier of around 40 per cent , which appears to be the maximum vote for any European party of the left , based as they are on earlier 20th-century political formations arising from industrial production . |
| 17 | Hence , their views , based as they are on personal first-hand experiences , form an important body of evidence about whether or to what extent Britain lives up to its reputation as a liberal democratic country . |
| 18 | Homelessness has been on the increase for a long time and Government initiatives , based as they are on encouraging the private sector to fill the gap left by local authorities , have been essentially piecemeal and fragmentary . |
| 19 | The halls look like Dante 's Circles , packed as they are with anxious parents grasping their child 's schedules , trying not to be late for class . |
| 20 | He remembered the release he had felt when he had first heard the teachings of Akhenaten , which had cut away the rotten trappings of the old beliefs , festooned as they were with the cynical speculation of the priests . |
| 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 | His sadism is satisfied , at least at first , within the permitted limits of naval discipline , but it is accompanied by unpredictable moods and actions which disturb and perplex the crew to the point of mutiny , terrified as they are by the hostile surveillance of the officers and the malicious spying which William Bentley the midshipman carries on by his uncle 's order . |
| 23 | The Task Force set themselves a tall order , comprised as they were of a wide range of largely voluntary community groups diverse experience of land-use issues and perceptions of the problems — spanning local issues to National land-related policies . |
| 24 | Perhaps the words of his ‘ Old Dialogue ’ ( Flowers for Hitler , p128 ) come from this time , overshadowed as they are with other meanings and claims : |
| 25 | Her almost violet eyes were a bit startling , maybe , set as they were in such dark lashes , but certainly her hair did n't give the impression of ruthless determination ; it sprang every which way , totally unsuppressed . |
| 26 | His moves within Russia towards ‘ openness ’ ( glasnost ) , accompanied as they were by freer elections and the release of dissidents , including Sakharov in 1986 , impressed Western public opinion . |
| 27 | Still , Max Klein 's steamrolling tactics , accompanied as they were by afterbattle embraces and chucks under the chin of opponents young and old , in the end always proved irresistible . |
| 28 | The figures from the United Kingdom , acknowledged as they are to be the most accurate , still underestimate the true incidence of infection . |
| 29 | In part , this was due to the military superiority of the Nationalists in both matériel and organization , assisted as they were by massive support from Germany and Italy . |
| 30 | Though heavily laden as they were on their trek back to the crofts , they did not complain . |