Example sentences of "as [pers pn] be at the beginning " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Most important is to have the physical and mental strength to be as successful at the end of this season as I was at the beginning of 1990 .
2 It was a series which left viewers as baffled at the end as they were at the beginning .
3 I mean they are more or less the same at the end as they were at the beginning .
4 This clerk is amorously alive and even experienced : — " " deerne love " " is as double in meaning here as it is at the beginning of Dame Sirith , and the same must hold for the semantically similar " " privee " " ; slyness is very much more the quality of a fabliau lover ( cf.
5 With a digital signal , it is very difficult for distortion to occur since so long as a 1 remains a 1 and 0 remains a 0 the signal will continue to carry all the information and the data stream will be as pure at the end as it was at the beginning .
6 When mortality for both sexes in infancy and childhood was great , as it was at the beginning of the century , it did not take long for a cohort to advance up the age scale before females outnumbered males .
7 A map of the town as it was at the beginning of this century , plus one as it is today , would have added considerably to the understanding of a reader not familiar with the town .
8 ‘ My attitude is still the same as it was at the beginning of the 1986–87 season and that is , if I can continue to contribute then I 'm happy to do so . ’
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