Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her religious sensibility is much nearer to that of the affective Franciscan devotion just as his is to the Dominican tradition of speculative thought . |
| 2 | Her life was as important to her as his was to him . |
| 3 | Unused as I am to public scribbling , and tardy to boot ( I 've just read your December/January issue ) , I felt I had to thank you for saving me time and trouble ( not to mention hard-won shekels ) , in a search for something which obviously does not exist . |
| 4 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
| 5 | That 's Captain J.B.J. Noel — the 1922 and 1924 cameraman — talking to Blessed , and I 'm as willing to give credence to that as I am to Simon Fraser 's dream of Tilman 's end . |
| 6 | The reception , a buffet , so glad you could come , yes did n't she , yes I am , O ha ha Uncle Tom 's sozzled ha ha good old Uncle Tom , accustomed as I am to public speaking , a glass of champagne cider each , I give you the Bride 's parents I My own parents looking a bit sick of all the tipsy Irish . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The evening event was thoroughly enjoyable with several awards being made , whilst Graham Crowe delivered one of his ‘ unaccustomed as I am to making short speeches ’ . |
| 9 | However , the point you have to erm , recall , is that if it 's a conflict between parental investment in a sibling and parental investment in myself , I am twice as closely related to myself as I am to my sibling . |
| 10 | Admittedly there 's nothing else as inane as the tale of Froggie and Miss Mousey among the 13 tracks on Good As I Been To You ( Columbia ) — but neither is there anything actually written by Dylan . |
| 11 | But it 's the difference between the wheezing , cracked , crumbling voice on ‘ Good As I Been To You ’ and the supine , delicate wonderment of Young 's voice on ‘ Harvest Moon ’ which marks the astonishing chasm between the two albums . |
| 12 | Just on a year ago , as I was to be in London at the time of the World Cup , I made enquiries about obtaining tickets to attend some of the Cup matches in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | Perhaps they were as eager to be without me as I was to be without them for a while . |
| 14 | When I could not think how to answer this , unaccustomed as I was to conversing with People , she went on , ‘ Do you speak English ? |
| 15 | ‘ But you , Bethlehem … small as you are to be among Judah 's clans , out of you shall come forth a governor for Israel , one whose roots are far back in the past , in days gone by . |
| 16 | Higueras warned Jim , ‘ Once a player is as close as you are to being number one in the world , the adjustments should be fractional in your game . |
| 17 | I will therefore , sir , dear as you are to me , give up your person to the happier , to my worthier rival . |
| 18 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 19 | Poor Lucy , he 's a dreadful embarrassment to her , nearly as bad as she is to him . ’ |
| 20 | As she is to be moving house and garden this year , she foresees a ceremonial tree-planting as a follow-up to the presentation . |
| 21 | I am so jealous and protective of her , ’ but , close as she was to Louise , she could n't bring herself to admit what she saw as the black depths of her failure with her daughter . |
| 22 | Madame indicated the preferred style from a set of drawings in a folder and Ellie , attached as she was to her mane of dark hair , was forced to agree how chic the chosen style was . |
| 23 | It seemed remarkable that Elizabeth should be as good as she was to her sister-in-law . |
| 24 | He was as bound to her as she was to him . |
| 25 | I am quite sure she was as sensitively generous to her sister as she was to me . |
| 26 | Dedicated as she was to Schellenberg 's welfare , she had an instinct about things . |
| 27 | Used as she was to dogs , she was unafraid , but even so she froze . |
| 28 | We are therefore committed to continue managing rivers , as we are to managing every square mile of the English countryside . |
| 29 | Accustomed as we are to the damp rigours of most Scottish self-catering properties , the Rannoch flats and apartments seem like paradise . |
| 30 | The fathers were as close to the New Testament as we are to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century . |