Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has several businesses in the district — a bobbin mill , a gunpowder factory , a cotton mill , and more — and what they have in common is that the people — usually women and children — who are unfortunate enough to be employed in them are driven as cruelly as possible and paid as little as possible . |
| 2 | Improved standards of living in the South would depend on increases in consumption of energy , but there was small prospect of its being consumed as efficiently as in the North . |
| 3 | Judicial statistics , which were compiled more systematically as time went by , continued to show a high number of offences . |
| 4 | There is an ancient variant in the Lucan version of the Lord 's Prayer , which is attested as early as Marcion in the second century and reads , ‘ May thy Holy Spirit come upon us and cleanse us , ’ instead of , ‘ Thy kingdom come . ’ |
| 5 | The northern ( and earlier ) approach was by passes across the Ural mountains to the lower reaches of the river Obn and thence down the Ob Gulf by boat to the mouth of the Tazn which was ascended as far as a portage to the lower Yenisei ; from there they followed an eastward course up the Lower Tunguska river , crossing a portage to the Vilyui and so to the Lena . |
| 6 | He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed . |
| 7 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 8 | But you know that is a danger not just for those who are lost as far as God 's salvation is concerned , there is a danger there for you and I as Christians , of being smug , of being self-satisfied , I 'm alright ! |
| 9 | Carl Prean and Alan Cooke , who were beaten only once as England soared to promotion in the European League , suffered a shock defeat in the first round of the men 's doubles at the European Championships in Stuttgart last night . |
| 10 | If she meant to make us nervous , she 's succeeded as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 11 | Consequently , engineers have a primary role in ensuring that the risk management programme itself is managed as effectively as any other business activity . |
| 12 | Few of its members , remembering the success of Lloyd George in 1981 , expected to win against the personal appeal of Winston Churchill , who was regarded almost universally as the principal saviour of the country , not only in the crisis of 1940 but in the years of partnership with foreign allies . |
| 13 | The estate itself was defined as early as 1240 in a Sarum charter as Forestarehege . |
| 14 | None was admitted so long as Coleman was alive . |
| 15 | ‘ We were so excited about a new life in a new house that we were drawn together again as friends and lovers and the Other Woman got left behind . ’ |
| 16 | International discussion is eased if they are distinguished as far as possible . |
| 17 | They are expected so far as practicable to make decisions on benefit entitlement within 14 days , but this time limit is frequently exceeded . |
| 18 | Not only do the results have no bearing on rankings — and therefore do not matter — but they are forgotten so far as historical records are concerned almost before the players have walked off the court . |
| 19 | The action and control areas were carefully selected so that they were matched as far as possible in terms both of the number of referrals to the psychogeriatric service in the previous year , and of 1981 census data on the number of elderly people resident , particularly those aged 80 and over , the housing amenities of elderly people and the proportion of elderly people living alone ( see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 20 | They were gone as suddenly as they had come . |
| 21 | And when the CEGB 's geologists were sent out to look at the geological substrata , they were harassed as heavily as the waste dumpers had been . |
| 22 | On the train journey back south they were cheered once again as they passed through every station , and this time Charlie felt they were more worthy of the hatted ladies ' respect . |
| 23 | They were started as early as 1461 , and the system is still being extended and improved today . |
| 24 | Its fine architecture decorated with giant banded pilasters have more than a hint of northern Mannerism in spite of the fact that they were finished as late as 1653 . |
| 25 | The new paradigm must pass critical tests to survive , but it is born as spontaneously as the metaphors of a poet : |
| 26 | ‘ About 2,500 people receive disability working allowance and I am anxious that it is increased as quickly as possible ’ , he said , and admitted that claimants may have confused DWA with disability living allowance and claimed the wrong one . |
| 27 | Even then , there may be limits to an exclusion — if it is drawn so widely as to protect a party from all liability , even for total non-performance , its effect may be that the party has promised nothing ; there is therefore no contract , or at best only a unilateral one . |
| 28 | On the first edition of the 1-inch map ( 1834 ) it is shown as boldly as the lanes linking the villages of Canons Ashby and Moreton Pinkney , and similarly on the map of 1887 . |
| 29 | If , say , he borrows £5,000 three times , repaying it each time , he is treated as severely as someone who borrows £15,000 outright . |
| 30 | It was formed as early as 1805 by the Marchese Tommaso degli Obizzi whose taste in ‘ primitives ’ was ahead of his time . |