Example sentences of "as they [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sexual feelings were there , and were overwhelming , as they are to many teenagers . |
| 2 | Dampness and lack of ventilation are as welcoming to insects as they are to wood fungi and once these conditions are rectified the beetles will feel less inclined to stay . |
| 3 | Overall the cost of a funeral often comes as a big shock to people and the vicar 's fees , peripheral as they are to the main bill , come in for lots of cynical comments like ‘ Even at a time like this , the church is making money . ’ |
| 4 | The figures from the United Kingdom , acknowledged as they are to be the most accurate , still underestimate the true incidence of infection . |
| 5 | It is unclear at this stage if direct comparison can be made with Behrensmeyer 's weathering categories , applied as they are to large mammal weathering in tropical climates , but as a provisional estimate these changes will be attributed to her stage 2 . |
| 6 | In their Narratives of love and loss ( 1987 , pp.1–2 ) they have set out ‘ to understand and … explain the astonishing emotional depth and moving power of works which might at first sight appear deceptively simple to adult readers , written as they are to be read by children ’ . |
| 7 | The tuners are Jackson-stamped Gotohs and have proved in the past to be man enough for the job , relegated as they are to being mere anchor points for the strings , taking into account the Floyd Rose licensed tremolo employed here . |
| 8 | The dates of these visits will be given to you as soon as they are to hand . |
| 9 | Presents from returning travellers or presents for your hostess are as much a sign of manners to the hareem as they are to us . |
| 10 | Since the node-link-node triples are not as meaningful to readers as they are to those who made the semantic net , the author may place any phrase in the margin . |
| 11 | Mark Watson and John Warwick , joint co-ordinators , who double as NISW consultant and information officer respectively , are happy to talk to those who have no more idea about what they want to do than , say , look at child abuse in Texas , as they are to someone who can build on a clutch of ready-made contacts . |
| 12 | The attainment of that general purpose and the nature of the scheme are prima facie as appropriate to the case of an unregistered company as they are to the case of a registered company . |
| 13 | All these features are as relevant to running a high-quality home for mentally disordered people as they are to selling hamburgers , and many services are now devising rules for ‘ human ’ care which can be monitored in exactly the same way , covering aspects of the physical environment , care practices and procedures and ‘ customer satisfaction ’ with the service . |
| 14 | There could be a good Dream in artificial intelligence the POV of an omniscient machine intellect , and its struggles with humans who are to it as they are to ants . |
| 15 | Market intelligence and sales and marketing expertise are , therefore , as crucial to the success of the technology transfer company as they are to innovation in general . |
| 16 | Suggestions of future disaster are never as convincing to the listener as they are to the talker . |
| 17 | Latterly it has become increasingly apparent that neighbouring small-scale communities , even when they are lumped together under the same " tribal " label , are just as likely to be sharply contrasted as they are to be very much the same . |
| 18 | But trade flows are at least as sensitive to the level of non-tariff barriers as they are to tariffs themselves . |
| 19 | Close as they are to being sold , electricity and water will be largely unaffected by this week 's change . |
| 20 | All such sources of conflict are familiar to those in the public sector as much as they are to those in the private . |
| 21 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 22 | But , in so far as they are to be seen as sons of the lost primal mother , they clearly represent the manic alternative to the depressive self-punishment of the followers of Cybele or the castrated and killed sons of the Great Mother represented by Attis and Tammuz , by the dead and dismembered Osiris , or the crucified Christ . |
| 23 | Er control copy all eight files as they are to the and that should do it ! say on there . |
| 24 | ‘ Clearly the Kurds , one way or another , are going to present an enormous problem to the courts very shortly , as they are at the moment to the Home Office , ’ Mr Justice Schiemann said . |
| 25 | ‘ We buy 50 to 60 cars a year , and if they prove to be as good as they are at the moment at the end of the year I think we could be in the market again for more diesels . |
| 26 | However , interventions with other agencies and community development may be as relevant at this stage as they are at earlier levels of intervention . |
| 27 | They are , for instance , twice as large at UHF frequencies as they are at VHF frequencies . |
| 28 | Surely all seats should be numbered and tickets allocated for individual seats as they are at other sporting and entertainment events . |
| 29 | Sun 's recently announced activities in the personal systems business with First Person are not directly involved , aimed as they are at the consumer end of the market rather than corporate networking . |
| 30 | People , however , are ill at ease with bluntness and , curiously , are almost as uncomfortable at stating things bluntly as they are at hearing blunt statements . |