Example sentences of "as they [am/are] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Admittedly , she does not at any point in her letter state explicitly her desire to return ; but that is the unmistakable message conveyed by the general nuance of many of the passages , imbued as they are with a deep nostalgia for her days at Darlington Hall . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So long as they are on a well-drained surface above ground-water level , moisture from above will not harm them , and clamps may be built outside anywhere sheltered from strong winds . |
| 6 | Whatever I designed would have to take account of circumstances as they are for the hard-pressed teaching population . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) On a taxation on the indemnity basis all costs shall be allowed except in so far as they are of an unreasonable amount or have been unreasonably incurred and any doubts which the taxing officer may have as to whether the costs were reasonably incurred or were reasonable in amount shall be resolved in favour of the receiving party ; and in these rules the term ‘ the indemnity basis ' in relation to the taxation of costs shall be construed accordingly . |
| 9 | Indemnity basis , where ‘ all costs … except insofar as they are of an unreasonable amount or have been unreasonably incurred ’ will be allowed . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | First , the cycle time of the various parts of the computer are not hidden from the microprogrammer , as they are from the conventional programmer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A special link is used in conjunction with passwords and allows users who do not normally have access to a user 's modules without supplying a valid password ( as they are in a different branch of the user tree ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ ’ . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , electronics are almost as common in the classroom as they are in the high street . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Undertaking the painting of heraldic devices such as squadron badges requires a licence from HMSO Crown Copyright as they are within the national domain . |