Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [be] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are not alone as I am just as confused myself . |
| 2 | What happens when I extend this approach from myself , as I am here and now , to other persons , places and times ? |
| 3 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 4 | I do n't mind whether I 'm English or Irish , but the thing about this is that as I was there till I was about fifteen or sixteen , it rubbed off on me a lot the whole atmosphere of Ireland . |
| 5 | I 've stayed the same as I was before but now it 's all right to be what I was before . |
| 6 | I 'm as good now as I was then and my target is 20 goals for the season . |
| 7 | Be just as you are now and you 'll be fine . ’ |
| 8 | She would n't be as popular as she is today if I had n't guided her career . |
| 9 | Real people : Sibylle Alexander as she is today and pictured with the Kaufmann family at Christmas 1942 . |
| 10 | My mother I can hardly see save as she is now while I am writing . |
| 11 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 12 | Holists , according to Miller , aim to show why social phenomena would be as they are even if particular individuals possessed properties other than those they actually have . |
| 13 | We could now go on to attempt to explain the character of these institutions by citing their effect on leading capitalists — they are as they are partly because they encourage a belief which is functional in relation to the system as a whole . |
| 14 | Regular worshippers may have been as sparse then as they are today but he was a person to whom one turned in times of trouble , just as he was called on at times of family celebration . |
| 15 | There were weaknesses — batteries were neither so good nor so light as they are today and in any case this was the first step . |
| 16 | Yes the they were much the same as they are now but er , of course the one nearest was the er spraying hanger , that 's where they used to build the Swallow side-cars , the main office building there 's a large hanger with large sliding doors at the back of there which used to house the erm experimental department for the Harvard Aircraft and erm they used to operate the flight gang from there getting the planes ready to go up to be actually tested , and then the next hanger up was very much er starting from scratch and finishing the aircraft structurally you know . |
| 17 | The Poles were almost as keen to get foreign currency then as they are now and they allowed certain visits to relatives . ’ |
| 18 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
| 19 | ‘ I will not anthropomorphize these vandals as they are wilfully and ignorantly trying to destroy a building that is there for the use of all the community . |
| 20 | The Report , echoing the research of the previous decade and the confidence of Crowther , asserted that the ‘ Newsom Children ’ ( as they were conveniently but inelegantly called ) were held back more by social than by genetic factors . |
| 21 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
| 22 | Would she and Stephen be sitting just as they were now and be suddenly unable to remember anything that had happened because nothing would have been real ? |
| 23 | Surprisingly she discovered that funding for both film-makers and festival organisers is proving as elusive in the larger metropolitan centres as it is here where the state of gay and lesbian film culture can safely be said to be embryonic at best . |
| 24 | Dr Mahmoud al-Sharief , Jordan 's Information Minister , said the best antidote to radical Islam was to give fundamentalists some power rather than jail sentences , to make them ‘ deal with the world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be ’ . |
| 25 | Mr Court was a principal architect of this Society as it is today and I am grateful for this opportunity to pay tribute to the very considerable part he has played in the development of the Society over the past 16 years . |
| 26 | English Language is the study of the English language as it is today as well as of the history of its development over more than a thousand years . |
| 27 | Well , it , it , it looked very similar , not quite as good as it is now but er , it was n't no where near as wide of course . |
| 28 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 29 | Mm but I , I mean I can use it as it is now but anything else on to it I would find it difficult . |
| 30 | All that science could say is : The universe is as it is now because it was as it was then . |