Example sentences of "as we be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are therefore committed to continue managing rivers , as we are to managing every square mile of the English countryside . |
| 2 | Accustomed as we are to the damp rigours of most Scottish self-catering properties , the Rannoch flats and apartments seem like paradise . |
| 3 | The fathers were as close to the New Testament as we are to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | This is the sort of situation which leads to our distinguishing ‘ ourselves as we feel ourselves to be ’ and ‘ ourselves as we are to others ’ . |
| 5 | The most bizarre of all these techniques , at least to our eyes , prejudiced as we are to a mammalian way of doing things , is that practised by Rhinoderma , a tiny frog that Darwin found in Southern Chile . |
| 6 | A student , faced with discourse slightly beyond his or her current knowledge , is in the same position relative to that discourse as we are to the above . |
| 7 | The sickness of morning is already upon us , unaccustomed as we are to being up so early . |