Example sentences of "as [pers pn] be to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just on a year ago , as I was to be in London at the time of the World Cup , I made enquiries about obtaining tickets to attend some of the Cup matches in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Perhaps they were as eager to be without me as I was to be without them for a while . |
| 3 | Higueras warned Jim , ‘ Once a player is as close as you are to being number one in the world , the adjustments should be fractional in your game . |
| 4 | ‘ But you , Bethlehem … small as you are to be among Judah 's clans , out of you shall come forth a governor for Israel , one whose roots are far back in the past , in days gone by . |
| 5 | As she is to be moving house and garden this year , she foresees a ceremonial tree-planting as a follow-up to the presentation . |
| 6 | The sickness of morning is already upon us , unaccustomed as we are to being up so early . |
| 7 | The figures from the United Kingdom , acknowledged as they are to be the most accurate , still underestimate the true incidence of infection . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Latterly it has become increasingly apparent that neighbouring small-scale communities , even when they are lumped together under the same " tribal " label , are just as likely to be sharply contrasted as they are to be very much the same . |
| 10 | But , in so far as they are to be seen as sons of the lost primal mother , they clearly represent the manic alternative to the depressive self-punishment of the followers of Cybele or the castrated and killed sons of the Great Mother represented by Attis and Tammuz , by the dead and dismembered Osiris , or the crucified Christ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Close as they are to being sold , electricity and water will be largely unaffected by this week 's change . |
| 13 | Of the two assessors , as they were to be referred to , Samuel Angell ( 1800–66 ) was the better known . |
| 14 | According to the US consul in Saigon , three and a half of these four statements were completely false but , in fact , not only may Under-Secretary of State Dean Acheson have offered the ‘ good offices ’ of the US ( as they were to be offered in Indonesia ) but there was also at the same time in effect a plea from Moffat , then in Singapore , that for various reasons the US should intervene . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Bad as it is to be poor in Indian it 's worse to be as destitute as the street-children . |
| 17 | I say nuclear catastrophe rather than nuclear war also because the episode which ends civilisation is as likely to be an accident as it is to be a monstrous design ; the result of human error or foolishness rather than of deliberate choice , an ultimate irony to mock the rational pretensions of the human race . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's as silly to laugh as it is to be scared . |
| 19 | As a matter of fact , although it is an extra extravagance from the point of view of fuel , the chicken will be very much nicer cooked the same day as it is to be eaten , before it has had time to harden up . |
| 20 | It is as important to be ruthlessly clear about the underlying causes of success as it is to be analytical about the basic faults which have led to failure . |
| 21 | The move to Longmore House , as it is to be called , will provide greatly improved public access to Historic Scotland services , expertise and information . |
| 22 | The North Atlantic Marine Mammals Commission , as it is to be known , groups together Norway , Iceland , Greenland and the Faroe Islands . |
| 23 | Motorists can expect to see the decoy on any motorway in the region as it is to be moved frequently . |
| 24 | Helen never intended her As It Was to be an accurate account of their young lives , and there are no letters because they met often . |
| 25 | In many ways , these additional protocols reinforced the impression that for France the EDC was designed as a guarantee for itself against possible German aggression as much as it was to be an anti-Soviet organisation . |
| 26 | It remained silent , unused as it was to being asked for its opinions . |
| 27 | In a sense I suppose , er what DeKlerk 's government has demonstrated is that they are trying as it were to be impartial and not allow political considerations to influence their judgement about whether Mrs Mandela should go on trial . |
| 28 | Hope then made what was to be his last appeal to the House of Commons for a Gothic Foreign Office , as he was to be out of Parliament from May 1859 until 1865 , when the present building was being built . |
| 29 | These repairs had to wait until the time of Haymo of Hythe , or as he was to be known as Haymo of Hythe . |
| 30 | The son of parents ‘ in service ’ in Gloucestershire , Miles — as he was to be known universally within the underground and after — had interests which moved rapidly across from art into poetry . |