Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb base] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 2 | And a good thing as I say is to just erm highlight the stuff that you want if you 've |
| 3 | Er I think we must remind ourselves that er this year 's as I say is by no means er generous and for that reason we 're not aiming higher , not because we would n't like to , but because we recognize the , the restrictions placed from elsewhere . |
| 4 | ‘ Gentle , indeed ! ’ she said ‘ And if I were as gentle in the market as I have been for him at home , how does he think I would manage ? ’ |
| 5 | There is no use in telling a customer wanting to go to San Marino ( as I have been in three central London agencies ) that it does n't exist , that he really means San Remo . |
| 6 | I think I was then as near to hysteria as I have been in the whole of my life . |
| 7 | I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics . |
| 8 | I would have thought that you 'd be delighted to invite Calder back just to put your views across again , even though there is n't anything between you both , as you 've been at pains to tell me ! ’ |
| 9 | It would of course be necessary if the County Council well first of all , our report will as you know be to the County Council . |
| 10 | Please God , I will be as true to you , as you have been to me ’ |
| 11 | Please be frank , as you have been until now on every other matter . |
| 12 | Thus , on the facts of the instant case , goes the argument , the fact that the proceedings against the respondent were postponed until the proceedings against the Murphy brothers were concluded ( despite the fact that such postponement as we find was in practice almost inevitable ) amounts to a breach of Magna Carta chapter 29 . |
| 13 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |
| 14 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , as we have been at pains to argue , to do so would be only to impose our own interpretation of reality on the reader . |
| 16 | ‘ Rangers are happy to be as successful as we have been in Scotland . |
| 17 | A picture as they say is worth a thousand words and so it was that on the afternoon unemployment broke through the three million barrier I chanced a glimpse of the private feelings of John Major . |
| 18 | As they have been at Wimpey Homes ’ first development of Superspec houses at West Moor in Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 19 | Birds can be an inspiration , as they have been to so many artists and poets . |
| 20 | If they 're offered , as they have been for years and years ever since the industrial revolution , things that have been cynically designed for the working classes , is it surprising that we have a nation of people who are supposed to have no visual standards ? |
| 21 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |
| 22 | Most essential of all for the future assessment of public finance , we must establish a truly independent source of economic statistics to ensure that judgments are not distorted — as they have been under this Government , by political interference in their collection or presentation . |
| 23 | The pre-recorded elements of his programmes for BBC Radio Kent are compiled in a home recording studio come darkroom , as they have been since 1975 . |
| 24 | Perhaps now teenagers — brainwashed as they have been by teen magazines , TV programmes and pop stars who all glamorise sex — will understand why it is so much wiser to wait . |
| 25 | Scoured as they have been by the turbulent and freezing sands that eroded every trace of fittings and furnishings whatsoever , their walls and ceilings do bear signs : remnants of incised and sometimes inlaid strings of rectangular shapes that numerous experts have confidently identified as writing , though no truly plausible translation has ever been constructed . |
| 26 | Although these areal units will alter less with time than administrative units , they are nonetheless transitory and so , ideally , smaller and more permanent units like kilometre grid squares should be used , as they have been by the OPCS in a limited fashion , as the basic building block . |
| 27 | There is a nice pool , sunbathing area and poolside bar at the back of the apartments , and we know they 'll be just as popular in Summer '90 as they have been in previous years . |
| 28 | Both the American and British governments are cloaking these new operations in a shroud of secrecy though it is unlikely any politician has the slightest idea what the two agencies are planning to do or that they even care if laws are broken as they have been in the past . |
| 29 | We pay attention to those salient features which are constitutive of the type of genre , and expect that the peripheral features will be as they have been in the past . |
| 30 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |