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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Conventional wisdom is that within broad limits , these types of change of use do not need consent , but it is as yet untested : the issue may ultimately be judged by the external effect of the split or amalgamation ( e. g. increase in traffic ) .
2 But it is as Anne Rice that she is most accessible , writing about history and horror with everything from eighteenth-century castrati in Venice and Scottish demons to Egyptian mummies in Edwardian England .
3 But it is as though she has had to start from square one .
4 But it is as strike-breakers — with all that that implies of betrayal of working-class solidarity — that they went down in ETS history .
5 George was also on the board of the Scottish Orchestra ( currently the Royal Scottish National Orchestra ) but it is as creator of the much-loved Cosmo cinema in Glasgow in the 1930s that he will always be remembered .
  Next page