Example sentences of "as [pers pn] is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 She would n't be as popular as she is today if I had n't guided her career .
2 Real people : Sibylle Alexander as she is today and pictured with the Kaufmann family at Christmas 1942 .
3 My mother I can hardly see save as she is now while I am writing .
4 She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost .
5 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 .
6 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 ’ .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Mm but I , I mean I can use it as it is now but anything else on to it I would find it difficult .
12 All that science could say is : The universe is as it is now because it was as it was then .
13 Though the Dragon Princes were few the destruction they could wreak was unmatched then as it is now and few dared the wrath of Caledor .
14 It claims 100% compatibility with Windows 3. x ( as it is now and as it may become to ward off emulators ) and no degradation in the performance of any Windows application .
15 X ( as it is now and as it may become to ward off emulators ) and no degradation in the performance of any Windows application .
16 The orbit will be circular and the Moon will be about 1½ times as far away as it is now and so total solar eclipses will not occur .
17 This would offer an overview of the environment — both as it is now and how it might become on present trends .
18 I suggest that the erm ticket price should be two pounds fifty as it is now and that the concessionary price should be increased to two pounds .
19 In later years , say 1964 , 1974 , 1984 , the first vision of Nozières took on its perfection and primacy , as it is only after the mind has cleared itself of the flow of daily preoccupation , planning , expectation , that the moment of a death can be known for what it is , and one 's life mapped , prospectively and retrospectively , to that threshold .
20 The dharmashala in which the doctor — Guruji , as he is commonly and respectfully known — works and lives was constructed many years ago by some pious rich people as an inn to provide poor travellers and pilgrims with shelter .
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