Example sentences of "as they [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Nightriders choir , including Santa , helped 1,000 passengers pass the time at Stansted , Essex , as they waited to be taken by bus to Luton or Gatwick where their flights had been diverted . |
| 2 | But as they waited to be escorted by police from Waterloo to the concert , they were confronted by a crowd of anti-Nazi protesters . |
| 3 | Amelia McLean also pointed out that skill was at stake : " fortunately , the majority of women workers can not see their way to join that union , as they claim to be skilled workers " . |
| 4 | Even if the consultants William Mercer Fraser are as good at business as they claim to be and the answer to everyone 's communications problems , the style is a guaranteed turn-off . |
| 5 | Are the British as bad and the French as good at sex as they claim to be ? |
| 6 | If a single criticism of Degas Sculptures is to be made , it is that the Gauthier prints are reproduced on a small , often miniature scale and are not presented , as they deserve to be , on a one-to-a-page basis , preferably beside their bronze counterparts . |
| 7 | But for the caring and hard work of the Pet Rescue Fund Committee many animals would not be alive and well today as they deserve to be . |
| 8 | The response by ’ tallies ’ as they like to be known was so good that at least a hundred had to be turned away . |
| 9 | Notts in this first half are going to be as they like to be , attacking the Kop end , a Kop end which is utterly deserted because Pisa have n't brought any fans with them but they 've brought a very large following of journalists , and as I said in the initial two-way with Martin , there has been a language barrier between them and me , but when they pointed to the weather and all shivered together , I knew precisely what they meant . |
| 10 | Well , from Cizek 's point of view , it is much better that they should draw as they know to be , than for him to show them by means of perspective how to draw the house as it is seen by the camera 's eye . |
| 11 | But before that , it is possible , using the sources revealed by the 1910 dispute , to put together a sort of group portrait of the women compositors , as they were in 1910 , and as they continued to be over the coming years . |
| 12 | But the Kosygin reforms , as they came to be known , were ditched . |
| 13 | Legislation curbed the ‘ jitneys ’ , as they came to be called . |
| 14 | The ‘ Indian Tamils ’ , as they came to be called , were of low status and had a reputation among British planters for being docile . |
| 15 | Pockets of resistance still remained in 1922 , in Tambov , Siberia , Georgia , and Central Asia : seemingly safe areas , like the Smolensk and Kursk gubernii , were not as stable as they seemed to be on the surface . |
| 16 | Valiant and Vigilant were not beautiful ships to look at and at full speed ( about 14 knots ) looked particularly incongruous , as they seemed to be suspended between their own wash and bow-wave . |
| 17 | When he sensed that the politicians were afraid enough of the army to come to terms with him ( as they seemed to be after learning that troops based in Algeria had seized control of the island of Corsica on 24 – 25 May ) , he flashed a red light to Algiers and moved on the political front in Paris . |
| 18 | However the texture of these patinas is not very convincing as they tend to be rather matt and powdery , and are quite easily recognised under the microscope . |
| 19 | It 's not advisable to try and cut them out yourself as they tend to be close to the skin . |
| 20 | ‘ The meaning of a profession ’ , wrote that great Christian socialist R. H. Tawney , ‘ is that it makes the traitors the exception , not , as they tend to be in industry , the rule . ’ |
| 21 | Organisations range from Brownies , Cub-Scouts , Scouts and Guides to the Silver Lining Club for the ‘ Senile Citizens ’ , as they tend to be called locally . |
| 22 | Keep a close eye on wild fish , as they tend to be more aggressive than their tank-bred counterparts . |
| 23 | There are several obvious flowers , such as forget-me-nots , which can either be used as a spray or individually , and wild flowers are often useful as they tend to be small . |
| 24 | If nurses were as careful with time as they tend to be with money , their professional effectiveness would take a meteoric rise ’ . |
| 25 | For this reason , the diaries of prominent politicians , such as those of Richard Crossman or Harold Wilson , have to be read with some scepticism , as they tend to be self-justificatory . |
| 26 | In the Bible miracles are not as sharply divided from other events as they tend to be in our thinking . |
| 27 | Persian-design Chinese rugs tend to be more expensive than those with classic Chinese and Aubusson designs , as they tend to be more finely knotted . |
| 28 | Ruched and festoon blinds will benefit from this attention , as they tend to be dust traps . |
| 29 | Placings were the most popular method of issue over 1985–89 , although the average size at £6m was considerably smaller than offers for sale and tenders at £62.3 and £32.8 million respectively , reflecting the fact that smaller companies tend to go for placings as they tend to be cheaper ( see Table 11.2 ) and placings have also become more popular as a result of the requirements for the size of company using a placing being relaxed after Big Bang . |
| 30 | But the government believes that , not least in the light of what is being achieved in other countries , the standards now generally attained by our pupils are neither as good as they can be , nor as good as they need to be if young people are to be equipped for the world of the twenty-first century . |