Example sentences of "as [pron] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not half as much as I am of you ! thought Henry , as he ran his eyes down the rest of the manuscript ( she must have written it before going to sleep ) . |
| 2 | Confident as I am of your Lordship 's view , the parties agreed to trial by jury ’ . |
| 3 | So be it but , remaining as I am of the view that they were a correct expression of the law , I repeat them as part of the ratio of my decision in this case . |
| 4 | I think perhaps I must try never to go away unless with you — And yet I know when you are out at supper with others , that you are all the time thinking of me , as I am of you ( and last evening in the hansom ! |
| 5 | ‘ I am as sure of it as I am of this water . ’ |
| 6 | Almost as frightened as I am of this gang . ’ |
| 7 | Danielle is a very happy and contented baby and I am a very happy and contented full time working mum — and as far as I 'm concerned that 's the best recommendation I can give to those of you who are in the same boat as I was of dreading re-entering the working world ! |
| 8 | In fact , for a while I was almost as afraid of boys as I was of horses and cows . |
| 9 | It became apparent that he was as aware of me as I was of him . |
| 10 | Fond as I was of Margaret , I could willingly have shaken her . |
| 11 | I said , ‘ Ssshh ’ , cravenly , for I was scared of her , although not as scared as I was of my own parent . |
| 12 | ‘ They are probably as frightened of you as you are of them . ’ |
| 13 | Fond as she is of children , however , they are by no means her only interest . |
| 14 | Even Ruth , ignorant as she was of New York society , knew about the Astors . |
| 15 | Mary Rose was a kind and simple woman , in awe of her husband , as she had been of her father , as she was of her parish priest . |
| 16 | She found it difficult to speak to him of Barbs , full as she was of jealous suspicion . |
| 17 | Poor Johnny ; wallowing in a mire of Women 's Lib : He was a product of his times , as she was of hers . |
| 18 | ‘ Where 's Oliver ? ’ asked Linda who had grown as tired of hearing Harbury 's troubles as she was of Marilyn Duxbody 's . |
| 19 | She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly . |
| 20 | Was he thinking of her as she was of him ? |
| 21 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 22 | Fond as she was of Tim Dunton , she had repeatedly and steadfastly refused all his proposals of marriage . |
| 23 | We 'll sit apart from them , as we 're of a lower class ! |
| 24 | We need to be certain that the revelation stems from God ; and we can not be as certain of this as we are of our reason-based knowledge of the particular truth in question . |
| 25 | It is common for us to imagine that others are going to be as critical of us as we are of ourselves . |
| 26 | The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ . |
| 27 | Are the aliens as frightened of us as we are of them ? |
| 28 | Americans are proud of their way of life as we are of our own although there are differences , there are many more similarities . |
| 29 | they were just as scared of us as we are of them |
| 30 | This plan was no sloppily organized affair , aware as we were of the lengths to which threatened men will go to protect their most prized territory . |