Example sentences of "as [pers pn] are [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's going to be much colder at altitude than on the ground , but one help is the fact that you move with the wind , so you do n't get so much of a wind chill factor as you are on the ground , and we 'll be putting on extra layers when we actually take off , so we hope we 'll be warm enough . |
| 2 | ‘ Honey , I 'd love to , but I 'm more or less stuck here as much as you are at the moment . |
| 3 | However , do n't make too much of a habit of switch-changing because the opponent may pick up your rhythm and attack just as you are in the middle of a change . |
| 4 | The fathers were as close to the New Testament as we are to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | I doubt if anyone in the four divisions is entertaining as much as we are at the moment . |
| 6 | And then finally , there 's also a temptation if , as we are on the B B C part of a large corporation , and , and you are as well , your various councils , there is a temptation to get into procedural jargon . |
| 7 | Just as we are on the way out of the desert , it would be plain daft to turn back because someone thinks they have seen a hazy mirage on the horizon . ’ |
| 8 | Sitting as we are on the end of the millennium , there is bound to be a lot of reflective soul searching . |
| 9 | They are as worried as we are about the implications for the people of this country . |
| 10 | As we are in the suburbs of the city , much of the land at the sides of the road is taken up with intensive agriculture . |
| 11 | His loss has been felt as a great national calamity … assembled as we are in the execution of a Plan of great public Utility … . ’ |
| 12 | The attainment of that general purpose and the nature of the scheme are prima facie as appropriate to the case of an unregistered company as they are to the case of a registered company . |
| 13 | Suggestions of future disaster are never as convincing to the listener as they are to the talker . |
| 14 | Sun 's recently announced activities in the personal systems business with First Person are not directly involved , aimed as they are at the consumer end of the market rather than corporate networking . |
| 15 | ‘ Clearly the Kurds , one way or another , are going to present an enormous problem to the courts very shortly , as they are at the moment to the Home Office , ’ Mr Justice Schiemann said . |
| 16 | ‘ We buy 50 to 60 cars a year , and if they prove to be as good as they are at the moment at the end of the year I think we could be in the market again for more diesels . |
| 17 | and they 're not there t as they are at the moment to meet the needs of the Greater York area . |
| 18 | not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment . |
| 19 | Of course , er we er , the provisos must be er that the er , that the prices or the costs at the Nuffield remain as competitive as they are at the moment , and of course , that we get the same very high quality that we er , that we already have . |
| 20 | INTOXICATED as they are with the feeling that they are the World Cup champions , Pakistan , after only a brief stay at home which included a pilgrimage to Meccas at the government 's expense to offer their thanks to the Almighty Allah — besides cash awards at home from every quarter — are now here to take on England in a series of five Tests , and , for the first time in this country , five one-day internationals . |
| 21 | However , aggravations still do occur and are useful guides to remedy reaction as they are with the C scale . |
| 22 | If anything , studies suggest the opposite : children and young adults with crude fantasies of aggression have been found to be more openly aggressive in their behaviour than those whose aggressive fantasies are muted or contain elements indicating that they are as concerned with the dangerous consequences of their aggression as they are with the aggression itself . |
| 23 | Well , I will resume , if er in is a Parish Council , we will deal with the the orders of planning as they are on the agenda , which is a car park and the Reindeer . |
| 24 | Obviously I do n't do that with every song because a lot of people like to hear certain things as they are on the record . |
| 25 | These homemade videos are often as rough-looking inside as they are on the outside . |
| 26 | You can send as many entries as you like — as long as they are on the Echo 's official coupon . |
| 27 | With engines close to the centre of the aircraft body there is very little asymmetric force being exerted when only one engine is producing thrust but with engines widely spaced in the wings , as they are on the Canberra , there is a great deal of thrust on one side and nothing on the other to counterbalance it . |
| 28 | It is not merely that Parliament fails to keep old law under continuous revision ; it loses interest in its new creations as soon as they are on the statute book . |
| 29 | Er you happy to leave things as they are for the minute ? |
| 30 | Contemporary memoirs are as full of praise for the building 's beauty as they are for the work which took place within its walls : ‘ Its magnificence , proportions and pleasant air makes it unique among the buildings of the world , ’ wrote the chronicler Barni . |