Example sentences of "[be] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously they 're as hung up as the rest of us . |
| 2 | Erm they 're as you can see , still a bit awkward but much easier to use than these . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , keel-haul me fer a Spanisher , ’ Susan exclaimed , ‘ ye 're as scurvy a shipment o ’ cut-throats as any that e'er sailed the Main . |
| 4 | ‘ They 're as I want them . |
| 5 | If we do run into the dogs , we 'll prob'ly have to use these … ’ he raised the barrel of his pump-action , ‘ … so we 're as well bein' where we can see to hit ‘ em . ’ |
| 6 | What she was doing is she was talking as a person who 's got a genuine love of the theatre as we all have that 's what were doing here looking for solutions now can I 'm I 'm as I said I 'm not assassinating your character now but you 're being very intimidating in the way that your talking to people . . |
| 7 | He 's got me in such a state that I 'm as useless as he says I am . " |
| 8 | I 'm just hoping that I could learn as I 'm as I 'm earning you know . |
| 9 | Basically every day is an effort , that 's the reality , and there 's a great tendency to want life to be as it was . |
| 10 | Basically every day is an effort , that 's the reality , and there 's a great tendency to want life to be as it was . |
| 11 | If I do n't make a Will , then the distribution of what you possess when you die may not be as you would wish . |
| 12 | That 's the reality ; you want life to be as it was . |
| 13 | Everything possible must be done , he wrote , and yet it must be as though nothing had been done . |
| 14 | I want it to be as though I had never been . |
| 15 | I want it to be as though I had never taken that turning . |
| 16 | The reasons for waiting list length are complex , and may be as related to shortages of aftercare facilities and ancillary staff as to the availability of surgical facilities . |
| 17 | The moment can be as the dancer pauses momentarily in a pose , as a comma in the middle or as a full stop at the end of a sentence . |
| 18 | and the gulls be as neat on the pond |
| 19 | As a whole , this grand spectacle was a rare hit with what seemed to be as varied an audience as any opera company is likely to find these days . |
| 20 | The research data might be as follows . |
| 21 | However good they might be as students , their families feel that marriage is infinitely preferable to a college career . |
| 22 | Charles was too sensitive for his liking , too intellectual , too philosophical , and although Charles adored his father and has spent a lifetime trying to please him and be as he would like , he has never really succeeded . |
| 23 | The right to be as fucked up as men . |
| 24 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 25 | He did n't know where it could be as he felt no pain except a slight stitch when he did aerobics . |
| 26 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 27 | Things do not have to be as they are . |
| 28 | In these days of competitive air fares many overseas locations can be as cost effective as being in the UK . |
| 29 | ‘ Penini knows I think it good that he is considerate and sensitive — he has been brought up to see no merit in violence , and when he is a man he will be as his father , entirely lacking in those so-called manly virtues of domination and arrogance towards women . ’ |
| 30 | Is it to be as before ? |