Example sentences of "be as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The more anonymous I am as an actor the easier it is to make you believe I 'm someone else . ’ |
| 2 | I am as an invalid housewife , unresourceful and unknowing , who leaves business to her husband . |
| 3 | I am as you probably know a huge supporter of Sunday trading . |
| 4 | you know you sort of , you were there , I am as a trainer you were sort of digging away there getting a bit more information out about people . |
| 5 | I am as well darling ! |
| 6 | I am as you would say a cobbler . |
| 7 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 8 | The research design was not intended to display how ordinary Easton 's police are as people , although the topics about which they talk show a concern with the same mundane things as other people — family , sport and leisure , television , sex , work , overtime and the bosses , the in-laws , friends , the cost of living , holidays , pregnancies , the house and DIY , politics , and so on . |
| 9 | B F Skinner 's work shows how important intermittent rewards are as a positive motivator in shaping behaviour , when you win fairly regularly you want to keep on trying . |
| 10 | Those shining metals are as the veritable trail of the serpent ; they follow inevitably in the wake of civilisations , and give rise to crowded and smoky manufacturing towns , while spreading abroad an unrestful desire for travel with all its concomitant worries and brain wear . |
| 11 | Continentals are unable to be butlers because they are as a breed incapable of the emotional restraint which only the English race are capable of . |
| 12 | Continentals — and by and large the Celts , as you will no doubt agree — are as a rule unable to control themselves in moments of strong emotion , and are thus unable to maintain a professional demeanour other than in the least challenging of situations . |
| 13 | Liquefied petroleum gas ( LPG ) consists of light hydrocarbons — mainly butane , propane and ethane — and its main uses are as a premium heating fuel , as a feedstock to the petrochemical industry and as a motor fuel . |
| 14 | The framework used in the interviews ( Table B ) provided information which can be categorised into five are as : |
| 15 | Perhaps the most interesting uses of the cube are as an intricate and interesting concrete example in group theory and , to a lesser degree , in combinatorics . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) Committees of the whole House , which are as the name suggest . |
| 17 | One of the particular pleasures of visiting Brno is how welcome you are as a visitor from the west and how interested people often are to talk to you . |
| 18 | Most of the calls made to houses are as a result of information given out by LASSY — the largest computer database in Europe . |
| 19 | ‘ Then your feelings for me are as mine for you ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 20 | Joan is the younger by a year but , being of similar height and appearance , the girls are as twins . |
| 21 | Social worth in our society is related to the workplace : you are valued by what you do for a job , not what or who you are as a person . |
| 22 | The sentence pairs are designed to reflect important grammatical contrasts but , without information regarding how the particular contrasts were selected and how far they are representative of the grammatical skills available to children of this age , it is impossible to determine how useful they are as test items . |
| 23 | Can you now describe the kind of person you are as an adult ? |
| 24 | There 's no need for James to even attempt to sing the chorus , the entire audience are as one shouting that word out to him . |
| 25 | Elastic singer Jonn Penney is in animated form — are as various members of Carter USM 's crew , dancing drunkenly down the front . |
| 26 | In particular , there is now a very developed elite theory tradition of analysing the social backgrounds and interconnections of different elite groups , using evidence of how these personnel are recruited , where they live , and who they meet with , as surrogate indicators for how they act , and interact , what their values are , and how cohesive they are as a group ( Rustow , 1966 ) . |
| 27 | When young people play central parts in adventure stones , their motives and actions are as a rule suitably moderated nor are they expected to concern themselves with elaborate points of honour . |
| 28 | Very broadly these are as an emergency , via a GP referral , from an out-patient clinic or via a waiting list . |
| 29 | All distances are as the Devon crow flies . |
| 30 | Categories are as the last competition i.e. HUMAN PORTRAITURE , PICTORIAL , LANDSCAPES , FLORA AND FAUNA , ARCHITECTURE/BUILDINGS/RECORD AND ANY PRINT ( the latter is for exhibitors not having previously won a prize ) . |