Example sentences of "as [pron] be [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as I was sort of starting work . |
| 2 | Seeing as I 'm sort of got half into that one really . |
| 3 | Barbara Cartland , you know , who really cares , so long as you 're sort of thinking right , I 've got to concentrate on this , because you know , have this different way of going about things . |
| 4 | As we are part of our own subject matter , we ultimately find ourselves . |
| 5 | Just as there are families of correctly spelled words , so there tend to be families of error . |
| 6 | Naturally there have been pockets of Tory resistance in Labour strongholds , just as there are pockets of Labour resistance in the South . |
| 7 | These combinations are computed in such a way as to concentrate the maximum amount of information in principal component 1 and the least in principal component 4 ( or 7 if TM data are used , for there are as many principal components as there are bands of imagery ) . |
| 8 | ‘ There are ways , are there not , of avoiding becoming an unsupported mother , just as there are ways of avoiding becoming unemployed ? |
| 9 | It is quite another to argue that there are as many worlds as there are ways of ordering experience . |
| 10 | However , just as there are degrees of physical punishment ( see pages 77–8 ) , there are variations in verbal punishment . |
| 11 | Or are there degrees of ghosthood just as there are degrees of warmth and sanity and beauty and livingness and dyingness ? |
| 12 | A pragmatic view is that an aesthetic experience is what is described as such , and as there are varieties of religious experience , so there may be varieties of aesthetic experience . |
| 13 | There are as many Patrick Wells in Ireland as there are haunts of Robin Hood and King Arthur in England . |
| 14 | Sure , she does n't scream with anguish and caterwaul and present a screwed-up persona like some ‘ foxcore ’ groups we could name , but she 's quite comfortable being a woman and there should be as many ways for women to express themselves as there are grains of sand on a non-radioactive beach . |
| 15 | Another difficulty with the tariff is the fact that there are probably at least as many different tariffs in practice as there are levels of court ( Court of Appeal , Crown Court and magistrates ' court ) . |
| 16 | Communication between leader and follower must take place in as many dimensions as there are levels of maturity to be considered . |
| 17 | I found this broken object , which is possibly a dog , in a field with Celtic and Roman coins , I have been told that it may be the end of a knife as there are fragments of iron on the base of the dog . |
| 18 | Oblique aerial photographs are easier to take than vertical ones , but are difficult to use afterwards , as there is distortion of the image . |
| 19 | In so far as there is surveillance of us , we tend to feel it is largely intended for our own good , to avoid us getting into difficult situations , etc … |
| 20 | These last were elected by all ratepayers including women , who could also be elected ; in addition to , electors had a cumulative vote with as many votes as there were members of the local board . |
| 21 | As there were signs of some useful action by the Government on cold weather payments , I believe that the struggle may avail something , so it may be worth pursuing the point . |
| 22 | Just as there were classes of free and unfree warriors , so there were , in every European country , free and unfree peasants . |
| 23 | That one I got five days ’ notice for and it was quite nerve-wracking , as there was tons of complicated stuff to learn . |
| 24 | Arriving at Halling he was warned not to go on to Rochester as there was danger of his being captured on the road . |
| 25 | So neither the UK parent nor any of its wholly-owned subsidiaries qualify as small companies in their own right as they are members of an ineligible group . |
| 26 | But in his analyses of kinship relations or of cooking , for example , Lévi-Strauss 's approach is based entirely on the assumption that they are systems which are structured like a language ; that is to say , that their individual elements have meaning only in so far as they are part of an overall system . |
| 27 | Our knowledge is bounded by our ideas , and extends only so far as they are ideas of real essences . |
| 28 | So long as they 're part of a sensible low fat diet . |
| 29 | ‘ They knew each other all right , ’ John Hewitt from the Ulster Aviation Society told me , ‘ as they were members of the Queen 's University Air Squadron , and had trained together . |
| 30 | The interviewers , who are normally retired FBI men , are pretty tolerant of homosexuals ( as long as they are out of the closet , making ‘ outing ’ an official policy ) and marijuana-smoking ( as long as it was part of student experimenting ) . |