Example sentences of "as he be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entre la vie et la mort ( 1968 ) depicts the drama of a writer 's struggle with language and the processes of creation , aware as he is of the potentially enslaving power of words . |
| 2 | Rex is as capable of making an honest mistake as he is of lying . |
| 3 | He is a collector 's item as full of hot air as he is of magical ideas . |
| 4 | When he refers to Montagu as ‘ the Assyrian ’ and his Queen Anne 's Gate house as ‘ the silken tents of Shem ’ , he was not being jealous or even anti-semitic , but complacently and affectionately mocking of Montagu , of whom he was almost as fond as he was of Venetia . |
| 5 | As soon as he was of age he took himself off to London to work as a merchant 's clerk . |
| 6 | Built in an age of faith , the tower had stood as a symbol , too , of that final unquenchable hope that even the sea would yield up her dead and that their God was God of the waters as he was of the land . |
| 7 | His father would have expected him to be brave , would have told him that God was God of the darkness as He was of the light . |
| 8 | Fond as he was of aquatints and textured design , colour rarely entered his commentary vocabulary . |
| 9 | ‘ I think , ’ she added , ‘ that your father wants to be as proud of you as he was of your moth-er . |
| 10 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 11 | Memet did not contradict her , for , fond as he was of her , he had no intention of marrying her . |
| 12 | As proud of his Keighley ancestry on both sides as he was of his ‘ liberal principles ’ , he claimed that his ancestors had fought at Flodden . |
| 13 | I also join him in paying tribute to Alick Buchanan-Smith who was a personal friend of mine , as he was of so many , and who was an outstanding parliamentarian and Minister , and to the courage of George Buckley . |