Example sentences of "as [pron] is [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | The only equipment required is a detector and a set of headphones , as nothing is buried . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So long as yu is living an yu want eat food |
| 8 | We discuss the merits of lighting the Trangia , decide that as nobody is watching , a coffee in the camp café will be OK . |
| 9 | They may get away with a trick or two , but only for as long as nobody is watching too closely . |
| 10 | It 's a shame that someone as obviously capable of expressing himself as you is given to such bursts of undisguised racism and ignorance . |
| 11 | Myself and English , as she is taught in schools , came to a conflict and gradually to a more and more friendly agreement through the necessity of writing long letters daily to one who was neither a schoolboy nor an elder , the subject of the letters being matters concerning nobody else in the world . |
| 12 | ‘ Thank you , but my maid will do so ; she is drinking tea in the servants ’ quarters , and will come as soon as she is sent for . ’ |
| 13 | Japlish As She Is Wrote |
| 14 | ARTscribble ( as she is wrote ) |
| 15 | The truth is that , as she is laying , the cuckoo removes and eats one of the host 's eggs . |
| 16 | Here Jo is the voice of authority as she is living happily with her director boyfriend Chris . |
| 17 | The next year von Moltke , one of the architects of Prussia 's military revival , remarked contemptuously but not inaccurately to his brother that " England is as powerless on the Continent as she is presuming " . |
| 18 | She 's doing , spending as much time doing tea and she sees , as she is phoning prospects . |
| 19 | One Saturday afternoon store security officers stop her as she is leaving , search her bags and find 11 lb of sliced ham and half-a-dozen eggs in them . |
| 20 | Talking of volunteering , this is 's last newsletter as she is moving ( has moved ! ) to Cofton Hackett . |
| 21 | Anne Locke is having to give up her classes in Paris as she is moving . |
| 22 | In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace . |
| 23 | Sarah 's death is vital to the machines as she is to become the mother of John Connor , the charismatic leader of the remaining pockets of human resistance in the Terminator 's own time . |
| 24 | life as it is lived , English as she is spoken . |
| 25 | Mrs. McKenzie , whose mother was also a member of Grayshott Good Companions , will be very sorry to leave the Thursday afternoon friends she has known for so long — but she will not be sitting at home alone as she is going to Grayshott 's weekly day centre . |
| 26 | Imagine how you would fare if you were learning English as she is spoke in Oxford and met a Geordie . |
| 27 | The devout and thankfully expressive countenance of the wife and mother is too admirably depicted to be overlooked or mistaken by anyone as she is occupied with those two most delightful of maternal duties , suckling her infant and teaching her child to pray to God . |
| 28 | Model Carla 's dash as she is linked to Mick … |
| 29 | I myself prefer Mrs. Proudie out of the three , but Madeline I also find interesting and thought-provoking while Mrs. Crawley seems the most boring as she is admired by everybody and does nothing wrong , which is very dull but does provide contrast . |
| 30 | There are no defined relationships to other records as everything is handled at document level . |