Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marianne is me ; Eleanor is me as I ought to be . |
| 2 | Paige loves to play games , and sometimes I 'm not as sharp as I ought to be . |
| 3 | Try as I might to be in the present , to subsume myself to history , to see myself as just another corpuscle coursing along the urban arteries , I could n't . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not as young as I used to be . |
| 5 | She 's not as soft as I used to be … |
| 6 | Not as young as I used to be ! |
| 7 | ‘ Give me a hand son , ’ Bert grunted , ‘ I 'm not as young as I used to be . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm not ashamed of my body as I used to be . |
| 9 | Not as strong as I used to be . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not as strong as I used to be . |
| 11 | ‘ Valencia , Alicante , Gandia — you should see the beach at Gandia , as white as I used to be — ’ |
| 12 | But it seems a shame not to challenge yourself because other people say you 're not as good as you used to be . |
| 13 | She was not quite as neat as she used to be . |
| 14 | She 's not as cool as she used to be , you know . |
| 15 | You think the whole blooming world 's all arranged so as everything ought to be your way . |
| 16 | We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us . |
| 17 | Modern relevant and as successful in recruitment of the workforce of the nineties as we used to be in recruiting the workforce of the sixties and seventies . |
| 18 | And , and , and lets remember that the first big shock that British sportsmen got , the first shaking of the earth which intimated that we were n't so hot at these things as we used to be was in professional sport , it was in football , it was when the Hungarians beat England in nineteen-fifty-six , and the Hungarian army officer Elista Pushkas became erm a world figure because he 'd led the team that had humbled British football might . |
| 19 | The authority of the verderers , like that of the coroners , had ended with the previous reign , so the king sent out orders to the sheriffs to make arrangements for the election of ‘ as many verderers as there ought to be and used to be ’ in nineteen forests south of Trent , and in Sherwood Forest north of it , ‘ as no verderer is as yet elected therein by command of the King , |
| 20 | Just as there ought to be a Radio 2 equivalent of John Maddox 's excellent Scientifically Speaking ( which seems , unaccountably , to have disappeared ) , so such widely relevant debates should find a place on BBC 1 . |
| 21 | If you are turned down for a grant or loan or you are unhappy with the amount given , there is no right of appeal to an independent tribunal as there used to be . |
| 22 | As she uncovered herself to him — ‘ for I love , and there is no loneliness , no misery , no doubt and ignorance , no hoping for that which seems vain as there used to be , but never will be again ’ — one glimpses the ideal that enabled her to accept without question the life that lay before them . |
| 23 | Oh dear , well I could say er work has got a lot easier for a start , a lot easier and they ai n't as , they ai n't as , there ai n't so much night work as there used to be . |
| 24 | In either case ( the Bank selling more or buying fewer bills ) , there will be a knock-on effect on interest rates throughout the economy , just as there used to be with MLR . |
| 25 | There 's not as many as there used to be . |
| 26 | still there , there is n't , there is n't as much as there used to be , but some are fair amount |
| 27 | They are good , but as people they 're not as good as they ought to be . |
| 28 | It has dawned on the stock market that accounts are not as reliable as they ought to be and that dubious accounting practices may reflect underlying difficulties or at least lead to some distortion in the market 's valuation of a company 's shares . |
| 29 | He 'd see it as some kind of betrayal , that I 'd allowed someone from outside to see that things are n't as perfect as they ought to be . ’ |
| 30 | They 'll not be as lively as they ought to be come morning , but tonight will have got a whole lot of unhappy things out of Seb 's system . |