Example sentences of "as [pers pn] are [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to be as tolerant with the views of other human beings as you are with the great outdoors . |
| 2 | If you are moving along in an ambulance you are not as safe as you are in the static , intensive care environment of an intensive care unit . ’ |
| 3 | A student , faced with discourse slightly beyond his or her current knowledge , is in the same position relative to that discourse as we are to the above . |
| 4 | Accustomed as we are to the damp rigours of most Scottish self-catering properties , the Rannoch flats and apartments seem like paradise . |
| 5 | Like a good Renaissance poet he replies that this is the principle of decorum ; his form merely recreates his subject-matter : We are inclined to smile at the self-depreciation , as we are at the similar joke in 105 : He has no need for other forms , other themes . |
| 6 | But even knowing that , we 're still as far from finding him as we are from the Holy Grail . ’ |
| 7 | Overall the cost of a funeral often comes as a big shock to people and the vicar 's fees , peripheral as they are to the main bill , come in for lots of cynical comments like ‘ Even at a time like this , the church is making money . ’ |
| 8 | Many institutions of less than 150 , either free standing or in collaboration with others , have offered and will continue to offer a range of courses well matched to the needs of the student population as they are at the present time . |
| 9 | So far I have only described what might be termed the ‘ normal ’ , or perhaps ‘ regular ’ , inspectors , concerned as they are with the operational and engineering aspects of the job . |
| 10 | Whatever I designed would have to take account of circumstances as they are for the hard-pressed teaching population . |
| 11 | Discussions of deindustrialization are as often discussions of the deindustrialization of the employment location of the working population as they are of the declining importance of industrial production as a part of total production . |
| 12 | These essential components of a fair defence would not be available to a defendant , as they are beyond the compulsory judicial process of US federal courts . ’ |
| 13 | First , the cycle time of the various parts of the computer are not hidden from the microprogrammer , as they are from the conventional programmer . |
| 14 | I confess to finding some of his Freudian speculations , unleavened as they are by the faintest suspicion of humour , hard to follow , in the sense that I am unsure what would count either for or against them . |
| 15 | Masked as they are by the sexual scents of other animals or the synthesised fragrance of flowers , they probably still affect our behaviour to some extent . |
| 16 | His sadism is satisfied , at least at first , within the permitted limits of naval discipline , but it is accompanied by unpredictable moods and actions which disturb and perplex the crew to the point of mutiny , terrified as they are by the hostile surveillance of the officers and the malicious spying which William Bentley the midshipman carries on by his uncle 's order . |
| 17 | I am enclosing tickets for the new play and as they are in the front stalls , I may see you as I come on , ; but do not expect me to salute you , you understand , as I shall be taken up with my part . |
| 18 | America was hailed as the ‘ great English Republic ’ and orators hoped that England would become a country in which ‘ all denominations will be as free from State patronage or persecution as they are in the great land over which waves ‘ the star-spangled banner ’ ’ . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , electronics are almost as common in the classroom as they are in the high street . |
| 20 | Ethnic minorities , over represented as they are in the secondary labour market referred to earlier , are forced to take jobs ( frequently in the service sector ) with low pay , poor working conditions , no training and little security . |
| 21 | So we see that all the problems of correlation are just as real in recent history as they are in the stratigraphical record , once we have lost the advantage of the date at the top of the newspaper or letter . |
| 22 | As a result , erm , prices wo n't be quite as volatile as they are in the opposite case , alright , when the world market , and virtually nobody , let's assume that virtually nobody uses the world market to trade in , they 've all got their own agricultural policies , right , just a few countries trade in the world market , it only takes erm , a , a sort of poor harvest , or a very good harvest in any one of these erm , er , sort of protected countries , in order to get rid of this output , they 'll put it on the world market . |
| 23 | These two factors , as well as the size and number of polyps , are , as they are in the large bowels , thought to be associated with a greater risk of malignant change . |
| 24 | Undertaking the painting of heraldic devices such as squadron badges requires a licence from HMSO Crown Copyright as they are within the national domain . |