Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 But I am quite cowed now as you shall see by and by .
2 I 'm as good now as I was then and my target is 20 goals for the season .
3 ‘ Honestly , I 'm as fit now as I was during the World Cup and my weight is down to what it was two years ago .
4 She has told you that I was kind to her in the summerhouse , though I 'll assure you I was quite innocent then as now , and I desire you to keep this matter to yourself .
5 She was again impressive yesterday as she dispatched Conchita Martinez , another 17-year-old , who is ranked 10th in the world , 6-3 , 6-2 .
6 But where they are subject to decay or vandalism , they are sometimes set up as finds for display in museums .
7 I thought I was going to get some more , but I suppose nearly all the Owsla feel they 're very well off as they are . "
8 She made believe that they were as happy together as they should be , and was careful to weep only in secret .
9 It 's a fundamental right and it 's as important now as it was nine years ago .
10 And erm you know it was a a bad time really b you know it was the thirties I mean people say it 's bad now but er I do n't think it 's it 's as bad now as it was then .
11 ‘ I 've started at the College , ’ he told Bobby Hunt , ‘ — it 's very nice there as I do n't have to do anything : the paintings though are past belief . ’
12 Long thought to be a mystery , Coade stone is now known to be a ceramic body , and the British Museum research laboratory 's analysis in 1985 showed that it was a form of stoneware so resistant to the weather that it is as precise today as when it was originally made .
13 Dave 15 ) It is as cold today as yesterday .
14 Unfortunately , the designer has integrated them in the text , and while this might be admirable for coffee table books or even guide books , it is quite wrong here as it makes them look cramped and mean .
15 It was quite dark now as they bounced along the rough road .
16 It was as poor here as anything he had experienced in the Borinage .
17 It was as familiar almost as my own , but I could n't pin a face to it .
18 Yet it was as impossible now as it had always been , and she groaned .
19 Consequently it was as hard then as it is now to separate our various individual contributions .
20 He was very canny actually as it happened !
21 He was as shocked here as he had been by the scenes he had witnessed in London 's East End .
22 He was as vigorous physically as intellectually , and rowed for his college at Cambridge .
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