Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , cotton stainer bugs , Dysdercus , are distasteful both as larvae and as adults . |
| 2 | And there you are importunate even as I am . |
| 3 | Seve treats everybody exactly the same ; they 're all there as fellow competitors and he does n't bat an eyelid at who he plays with . |
| 4 | A Warrior Bane or Parrying Blade are useful too as they reduce your enemy 's attacks . |
| 5 | ‘ We are all here as free men — not tenants , and not plaintiffs or slaves but free people who are determined to remain so . |
| 6 | In ewes it seems likely that the parasites are present largely as hypobiotic larvae in the lungs during each winter and mature in the spring . |
| 7 | He insists that the Extractive reserves are viable economically as well as socially . |
| 8 | Floodlights are available either as wide-beam units for general lighting , or in the form of spot-lamps the light from which is focused into a concentrated beam ; some have variable-focus lamps and can be used for either duty . |
| 9 | Things are difficult enough as it is . ’ |
| 10 | O. clavigera can easily be distinguished from O. globifera by the following characters : the plates of the dorsal side are thin not as well developed as in O. globifera ; the spinelets of O. clavigera often have an enlarged rugose tip , those of O. globifera are all of one kind , low and rugose , nearly granuliform ; the apical and oral papillae of O. globifera are shorter and not as rugose as those of O. clavigera ; the oral shield is more regularly rhombic in O. globifera than O. clavigera and the tentacles scales of O. globifera are large rounded while those of O. clavigera are small and spine-like . |