Example sentences of "as [pron] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real Summit , as everyone is now well aware , was to be held in Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Just tell me one last thing : as everyone is so busy wiping out the memory of the last 40 odd years , do you still want to keep your military headstone with its red star ? |
| 3 | ‘ As everyone is so fond of reminding me , ’ Nogai met Burun 's eyes , ‘ my death would not cause a ripple in the affairs of the Khanate . |
| 4 | It is ill mannered to stand around gossiping , as nothing is more irritating to a person waiting for attention . |
| 5 | When dealing with a telephone enquiry it is essential that all the necessary information is at the fingertips of the receptionist as nothing is more irritating on the telephone than hesitancy through lack of knowledge or being asked to hang on whilst information is being looked up — and always have alternatives to offer if the first choice is not available . |
| 6 | She would n't be as popular as she is today if I had n't guided her career . |
| 7 | Two superb views of RN228 as she is today ( as G-USTV ) from the lens of RAF Public Relations photographer Sgt Rick Brewell . |
| 8 | Carole Ann Ford , who played Susan , the Doctor 's granddaughter , as she is today . |
| 9 | Real people : Sibylle Alexander as she is today and pictured with the Kaufmann family at Christmas 1942 . |
| 10 | My mother I can hardly see save as she is now while I am writing . |
| 11 | I like to think that Miranda will survive her crisis and not be as depressed and defeated as she is now . |
| 12 | Well , Mrs Newton , as she is now , was fairly monosyllabic until I promised that the Daily News would send her a little present . |
| 13 | " She was exactly the same as she is now , but she took the trouble to hide the fact . |
| 14 | The foreman said that the girl was lying on her back , her hands folded , as she is now . ’ |
| 15 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 16 | As she is now studying fell-time for the Ministry , she resigned from the post at the end of October , 1991 , and we have appointed another worker , Mrs . |
| 17 | ‘ The mistress became — as she is now . |
| 18 | ABOVE : Fighting from the podium in 1969 ; LEFT : Dancing with husband Ted ; RIGHT : As she is now , aged 82 , and still fighting By Diana Pulson |
| 19 | But as they do , it 's gon na hit her cos it 's not year that it does n't help , see if she 's in a third year class , she was always as she is now , in the top of that , but even |
| 20 | Her Frenchness , and whiteness , seem very much under threat as she is always surrounded by Africans , and Africa . |
| 21 | And if her husband comes back , as he is apparently hinting he might , or if she moves , or gets a job , as she is always threatening to do if he does n't , or if my colleagues in the DSS find out that I am paying her , then even this hopeless arrangement will come to an end and I shall be back to the agencies and the advertisements , back to the interviews and the references , back to strangers in the house . |
| 22 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 23 | She took the punchcard pattern from a magazine , but the ‘ tooth ’ was too large a pattern as she is very small . |
| 24 | All that energy for comparatively few sales , but she will get them for the paperback as she is very much the rising star of Black American fiction . |
| 25 | As she is only three you will need a lot of patience and persistence to get the message across , but do keep trying , otherwise her bossiness could leave her on the wrong side of the fence from her friends . |
| 26 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
| 27 | And so he is no longer too common for her as she is really as common as he was . |
| 28 | We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 29 | The text implies that Veronica has tea separately from John as she is still fed by her mother . |
| 30 | Pat has also asked me to thank those who gave their names to be pen friends and asks you to be patient as she is too ill to distribute them yet . |