Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [be] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full of admiration as I was for these brave , sturdy survivors , it was kidneys I was now interested in . |
| 2 | His principle is to maintain the gardens and grounds as they are for all the residents , so that from outside it is not apparent that the building has been divided up . |
| 3 | Does the work move to them , or are cars made so expensive that people are obliged to live close to their work , as they were for much of this century ? |
| 4 | And we just went through them , the same procedure as it is for all our policies , which is eight point two , five , growth percent . |
| 5 | WP It will inevitably be confusing for those in Eastern Europe who mistake the rhetoric of Western ideology for the reality of economic life — just as it is for many in the West . |
| 6 | If this seems too scandalous an idea , as it is for many people , it can be modified without damage to Freud 's other theories , and the cultures of human societies may be seen as transmitting the repressed material of earlier generations to the present one . |
| 7 | When the background is a single colour , this is a simple matter , as it is for this yellow crab spider crouching in wait for a prey to arrive on the marigold flower . |
| 8 | Dividing the world up into nation-states , as it is for most practical purposes for most people , is therefore a profoundly ideological strategy . |
| 9 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 10 | The longevity of any one copy of a meme is probably relatively unimportant , as it is for any one copy of a gene . |
| 11 | Nor can potential school achievement or social competence be directly linked to levels of sight : pupils with little or no sight have shown that they can achieve well in school , be independent and happy , since the interaction of the child and the learning environment is as significant for them in helping to achieve these goals as it is for any pupil in school . |
| 12 | The ‘ look ’ in this stratum is as considered and serious a matter as it is for any Sloane , and just as rigid . |
| 13 | This is as true for those who , like those in FYT 's full-time staff team , serve God 's servants , as it is for those who are at the sharpest end . |
| 14 | Acquiring a good interview technique is as important for people employing one person to work directly for them as it is for those who will be taking on large numbers to work for a company . |
| 15 | The report , People and Poverty in the North East , says that the cost of living for people on income support is three times as high as it is for those on an average wage . |
| 16 | If it is any consolation , the whole question of arrangement seems just as much a problem for people with enviably rare and valuable collections as it is for those with hardly enough to call a collection of anything . |
| 17 | For those theses who have only one recorded citation , the citation period is zero , as it is for those theses whose citations all fall within a single year . |
| 18 | During this period the family unit becomes the natural social grouping , as it is for these highly protective swans ( opposite , bottom ) . |
| 19 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |
| 20 | At every point in those historic struggles which founded the Protestant and radical traditions in Europe , and which severed radicalism from the body of the Catholic Church , the struggle was as much for personal gain or for political or economic dominance as it was for any pure-hearted vision of goodness . |
| 21 | In this example , the assumption held good in the test we submitted it to : the experience of unemployment was broadly similar for those who were unalienated as it was for those who were alienated ; we could feel confident about averaging the two d s . |
| 22 | She reported that the diet was particularly suitable for her , just as it was for those with a high cholesterol level . |
| 23 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 24 | When the fashion changed after the war , it was difficult for some older singers , just as it was for some of the stars of silent films when the talkies came in . |