Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such speakers may make overgeneralisations which are not appropriate either as HE or as SE , for example : " I 've done a course two years ago " ( Harris 1984 : 315 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | Regular worshippers may have been as sparse then as they are today but he was a person to whom one turned in times of trouble , just as he was called on at times of family celebration . |
| 4 | The economic differences between a farmer and his workers are as wide today as they ever were ( probably wider when wealth as well as income is taken into account ) , but the social distance between them has been considerably reduced . |
| 5 | Its therapies have stood the test of time and are as effective today as they were two hundred years ago . |
| 6 | The issues raised by these comments are as relevant today as they were at the time . |
| 7 | The ideals of the Hospitaller Order are as relevant today as they were in the 16th century when the Order was founded — to meet ‘ All in Need ’ , no matter their colour , race or creed . |
| 8 | You will have seen that the accident to which this report refers happened in 1973 — The mistakes indicated in the report are as relevant to-day as they were then . |
| 9 | Produced by Igelfilm in Germany , the film examines Mr Niemoller 's prophetic stance on topics which are as relevant now as they were in his lifetime . |
| 10 | The design of interiors … are as valid today as they were in earlier times — the vaults , snugs , parlours , each with their own character , can still provide a pleasant , varied atmosphere ’ . |
| 11 | The principles of homoeopathy , as laid down by Hahnemann , are as valid today as they were in his time . |
| 12 | However , the reasons for its conception are as valid today as they were whenever the saying was first coined . |
| 13 | Unfortunately this legislation has proved to be totally ineffective both as it was drafted and as it has been put into practice . |
| 14 | I 'm as good now as I was then and my target is 20 goals for the season . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | As Malinowski 's own posthumously published field diaries record , this cross-cultural experience , involving a massive exposure to what we nowadays call ‘ culture-shock ’ , is likely to be as gruelling psychologically as it is physically . |
| 17 | Ski areas tend to be as fragmented now as they were 20 or 30 years ago . |
| 18 | But I am quite cowed now as you shall see by and by . |
| 19 | Our waterproof walking boots were really necessary here as we balanced on rocks to cross the gushing stream . |
| 20 | She made believe that they were as happy together as they should be , and was careful to weep only in secret . |
| 21 | The big , light-hungry leaves were almost black now as I walked briskly back along the path searching for the track to take me back to the lodge . |
| 22 | Golding is not judgemental here as he does n't call them ‘ silly little boys ’ . |
| 23 | So it 's not long now as you say . |
| 24 | I chose housing as my theme for the Dimbleby Lecture , and I enunciated a belief which is as firm today as it was when I delivered it : |
| 25 | The operating philosophy set them by founder is as potent today as it was then : ‘ You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well . ’ |
| 26 | Across the road from the churchyard is Poosie Nansie 's pub , the setting for Burns 's poem ‘ The Jolly Beggars ’ , and is as welcoming today as it was in the time of Scotia 's bard . |
| 27 | I should like to commend to Members the text of the Inaugural meeting of the BIE in London in 1927 much of which is as relevant today as it was then and it will only be by the commitment of you the members that the Institute will improve and ultimately progress . |
| 28 | This message is as relevant now as it was in 1940 and is more urgent than ever as the myth of material progress loses its power . |
| 29 | ‘ The need to be vigilant is as great now as it ever was . ’ |
| 30 | It 's curtain up time again , another opening of another show and the Smell of the Greasepaint and the roar of the crowd is as strong now as it ever was for the performers . |