Example sentences of "as [pers pn] are [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it strange going thousands of miles away to Australia and finding out that you 're as known there as you are on this island ? |
| 2 | … ’ bit once the sun and beer has gone to the head and we 're talking as we are after this weekend severe overcooking . |
| 3 | Now if we took this view about parental investment theory , it would immediately erm concentrate our attention if we 're talking about human beings as we are in this course on er one critical factor which er is astonishingly important and that is er body fat . |
| 4 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 5 | It should be noted that the two marks and are being used for two different purposes in this course , as they are in many phonetics books . |
| 6 | American guests are famous for deep ties and they hope they will consider themselves at home as long as they are in this country . |
| 7 | I 've considered doing part-time work … but its almost impossible now with things as they are in this area . |
| 8 | We have to look at the range of ideals which are somehow clustered together to guide us , arrayed as they are in some sort of a rough priority system , and take out of its slot the unquestioned ideal ‘ be a man ’ . |
| 9 | These can not be explained simply in terms of shared descent ( as they were in some multicultural accounts of ethnicity ) or a shared socio-economic location and history ( as they are in some antiracist versions of ‘ the black experience ’ ) . |
| 10 | Singer s own argument was that trees , lacking as they are in any capacity for suffering , can not have interests . |
| 11 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |