Example sentences of "as [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel as futile as salmon arriving a day late for spawning , just as everyone is leaving satiated . |
| 2 | The scene is n't as great as everyone is making out . |
| 3 | As everyone is to pay an equal amount , the burden of tax will fall far more heavily on the poor than the rich . |
| 4 | as , you know , as , as everyone 's suggesting . |
| 5 | Just as everyone 's forgetting about Myra Hindley , there 's something in the newspaper again about her . |
| 6 | Just as everyone was expecting a draw , however , Yusupov made a an unexpected sacrifice of a bishop . |
| 7 | ‘ You thought as everyone was meant to think . |
| 8 | They are commemorated by a plaque on the alms-houses at nearby Burraton Combe , given in 1726 by James Buller ‘ … whose glorious memory as well as illustrious favours ought not to be forgotten but kept , as t is hoped they will be , in everlasting remembrance . ’ |
| 9 | The only equipment required is a detector and a set of headphones , as nothing is buried . |
| 10 | As nothing was done , she borrowed the car and made several trips , Philip assisting , to the rubbish dumps . |
| 11 | So long as you know how far it is to the line , and so long as someone is calling out the time to the start , you just need to judge your speed correctly . |
| 12 | you can do it because as you read through your notes as someone 's talking to you in the lecture you will be saying , Yeah of course of course . |
| 13 | I 'm very willing , but seeing as someone 's doing something for me , I 'm like you sure you do n't mind ? |
| 14 | Whatever , the cops eventually moved on and the Englishman and I were spared the task of explaining what such an unlikely pair of lads as ourselves were doing with such a gleaming trophy . |
| 15 | Also , if I get it written ( which I may not , as I am expecting someone to lunch and want to catch this afternoon 's post ) forward Jenny 's letter ? |
| 16 | Your colleague Pool is hiding his thoughts from me , just as I am hiding mine from him . |
| 17 | I am sure that all my colleagues are as delighted as I am to support this excellent Bill , not least because it builds on the firm foundation organised during the passage of our privatisation measures . |
| 18 | Campese , who hopes to face the Barbarians at Twickenham on Saturday , is more direct , saying : ‘ I play because I enjoy it and as long as I am enjoying my rugby and I am wanted — well , you are a long time retired . ’ |
| 19 | There will be similar trouble over the gender difference if indeed as I am suggesting — it is true that ideas about the meaning of maleness have distorted moral thinking in our culture quite deeply , so as to affect the whole concept of individuality , and thereby condition the way in which some central metaphysical issues are seen . |
| 20 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 21 | I hope you officers are treating Chief Joseph as I am treated . ’ |
| 22 | As I am writing these words , I have a persistent , low-pitched hum in my left ear . |
| 23 | But pragmatism , as I am using the term here , is a function of pedagogic mediation whereby the relationship between theory and practice , ideas and their actualization , can only be realized within the domain of application , that is , through the immediate activity of teaching . |
| 24 | In so far as I am using an expression , as distinct from attending to it , I am at home in it . |
| 25 | The crucial difference between economic growth and development , as I am using the term here , is that development may include everything that is already included in economic growth plus criteria of distribution of the social product and democratic politics . |
| 26 | It is perfectly genuine with Ana and not at all uncommon , as I am given to understand . |
| 27 | Given their experience of the remote jargon of their teacher training , and of the demonstrable lack of impact of the pundits on education , as well as their weariness and preoccupation , it is entirely understandable that teachers should be turned off ideas at least as much in 1989 as they were twenty-five years ago : understandable but a mistake , as I am trying to argue . |
| 28 | Mine starts at least two weeks before I begin fishing and continues , albeit less frequently , for as long as I am fishing that water . |
| 29 | But it would seem to me that er there may be a marginal undersupply in Bradford on the basis of the current U D P and that is assuming that we we have the same balance between Bradford and between North Yorkshire as I am implying from my my particular figures . |
| 30 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |