Example sentences of "as they be [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Some of the items are fine as they are but are not given unconditional approval because they should only be eaten in moderation .
2 I do n't expect the heartbeat award scheme to suffer , I will be in touch with Matthew fairly closely to ensure that , but I think the position of the labour group is that we can not support these recommendations as they are but we offer you a compromise solution .
3 You can ask them either just as they are or use them as a basis for formulating questions that are particularly related to the job for which you are being interviewed .
4 Everyone — whether self-employed or working for an employer — has the choice of continuing as they are or of switching instead to a personal pension .
5 I mean are you learning these as they are or I mean
6 A GIS is capable of identifying such slivers and allowing the user the choice of leaving them as they are or of replacing them with an average boundary position .
7 These are laminated with a glossy protective finish on both sides and can be framed or just used as they are as posters ( great for brightening your den ! )
8 We carry on with the gin , nobody paying any attention to my sentimental reminiscences , contradictory and literary as they are and unable to express my conflicting desire that England be an island in a timewarp and that the English behaved like Continentals .
9 Other findings were that 67 per cent think standards will decline in the next few years if things carry on as they are and that 77 per cent agree teachers do a good job in spite of everything .
10 Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way .
11 In any case , for as long as they remain as powerful as they are and until the country is ready for a proper comprehensive system the grammar school should be preserved : ‘ It would , moreover , be absurd from a socialist point of view to close down the grammar school , while leaving the public schools still holding their present commanding position .
12 Sister Mary Leahy , who organised the prayer week at Seacroft , explained the purpose of these personal interviews ; ‘ Prayer is a relationship with God , so as a prayer guide , I would want to help people to recognise God in their lives — relating person to person — speaking to God and listening to him — coming to God just as they are and not as they think they ought to be . ’
13 Of course we could leave things as they are and just go our own ways , but it would n't work .
14 Leopards are after all quite as at home in the treetops as they are and on occasion are partial to monkey .
15 These forces have been described as ‘ Wallacian ’ ( Harper , 1977 ) , because they represent those agents of natural selection that were of more concern to Wallace than to Darwin in accounting for how organisms are as they are and behave as they do .
16 As Morgenthau put it : ‘ [ Realism ] believes … in the possibility of distinguishing in politics between truth and opinion — between what is true objectively and rationally , supported by evidence and illuminated by reason , and what is only a subjective judgment , divorced from the facts as they are and informed by prejudice and wishful thinking . ’
17 We have highlighted the importance of recognising that the Constitution is subject to change in response to political conflicts , and so we have pointed to the need to study the Constitution ( and constitutional theory ) historically , politically and critically , with an eye to the tensions between things as they are and things as it is thought they are and should be .
18 Therefore the choice is between leaving things as they are and adopting a new definition which is different in substance .
19 But er some schemes have annual general meetings and elect people er some are quite content to leave things as they are and the volunteer carries on all the way through with it .
20 Alright and er you 're quite happy with things as they are and that ?
21 It was agreed to leave them as they are and to take no further action .
22 There are those who claim that canvassing the votes of the electorate is a waste of time : that they are at least as likely to vote for you if you leave them alone as they are if you go round and bother them at night .
23 These are as essential when you 're planning a company training seminar with twenty-five people as they are when you 're organising an 8,000 delegate , fifty-nation , ten-day congress .
24 Member states are not always as Community minded when implementing directives into their respective legal systems as they are when adopting them within the Council .
25 They offer three options for Horton : to Roughly stay as they are when they become a health Service Trust ; TO ’ Examine ’ the Accident and other acute services ; or to move the acute services away to major hospitals .
26 There are many features of animals which could be improved on , and which are as they are because of the legacy of the past .
27 We shall not have a complete theory until we can do more than merely say that ‘ things are as they are because they were as they were . ’
28 Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are .
29 You do n't have to draw the continent and oceans exactly as they are because it 's a diagram .
30 That His Majesty , understanding that the Forest Laws are grievous to the Subjects of this Kingdom … out of his Grace and Goodness to his people , is willing to lay down all the new Bounds of his Forests … reduced to the same Condition as they were before the late justices Seat held .
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