Example sentences of "as they [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are good , but as people they 're not as good as they ought to be . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So , if erm so your , your , your principal complaint , I maybe wrong it maybe not your principal , look at page a hundred and twenty seven for your assistance , erm standard form of agreements restricted competitions , the service of the petitions or the agents provided so this is names and thereby restrict the competition as the agents them say erm then impose on that it was a regime etcetera , erm that the , the competitive the anti competitive one is your sub paragraph one is n't it ? , on page one , two , seven your saying look here is a of , of dictated through their bi-laws , a standard form that all agents must use , you say , erm , er that that restricts competition because it means that agents are free , or as free as they ought to be , erm to compete with each other or providing services to outside names , I follow that , I did n't say I except it , but I follow that entirely , erm , but does n't , does n't , if you 're right does n't it follow that the agreements are void ? |
| 6 | Who would have thought we would be watching the Kirov ( as they used to be ) performing a pas de deux from Antony Tudor 's The Leaves are Fading ? |
| 7 | The risk , they argued , was judging South Africa 's rugby resources as they used to be , not what they might become . |
| 8 | She had never learned to read , either , and on the very rare occasions she received a letter Christine was called in to read it to her , Miss Miggs being careful to explain that her eyes were n't as good as they used to be or that she could n't find her glasses . |
| 9 | ‘ Not as thick as they used to be , ’ snorted Squeaky , ‘ not many big uns either . ’ |
| 10 | It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be . |
| 11 | It is now very difficult to park a car in Funchal as areas are being made into pedestrian streets and the central reservations in Avenida Arriaga are being restored to walking areas , as they used to be before cars took them over . |
| 12 | This means that although credit cards are probably still the cheapest way to pay bills abroad , they may not be quite such good value as they used to be . |
| 13 | Employers are not as co-operative as they used to be and players ca n't afford to throw up a job with the employment market as it is ’ — GEORGE SPOTSWOOD ( Irish RFU technical officer ) . |
| 14 | Women are not , however , forced into the worst aspects of this trade by their lack of money to the same extent as they used to be . |
| 15 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 16 | JEWKES : Here about my wrist as they used to be . |
| 17 | As we get older our bodies are not as good at keeping warm as they used to be . |
| 18 | Mine are the only actually they 're not as bad as they used to be they need doing now but Daddy 's so they 're not too bad . |
| 19 | I mean we 're all worried in , in the world about cuts in various areas and the education area has its share of the cuts , we know the teachers are worried about their salaries and what 's going on in the schools , and even we hear from the University from time to time that they , things are n't as they used to be . |