Example sentences of "be [adv] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good pine shavings are best as they contain resin , which also acts as an insect repellent . |
| 2 | Obviously , the real nasties , Sun readers , are just as they have always been , vile and pretty anti-gay . |
| 3 | The traditional leather-trimmed wheel and large round instrument dials are just as you remember them . |
| 4 | He might say " Things are exactly as I said they are " . |
| 5 | Love with such a person , Miranda knew , would be exactly as she had imagined it : ringed with radiance , and tenderness and glamour , larger than life , more brightly-coloured , just like the movies . |
| 6 | I understand you loud and clear , and it will be just as you desire , I promise . ’ |
| 7 | We 've as much right to be here as they have . |
| 8 | ‘ For heaven 's sake , ’ cried Babs , ‘ you 've as much right to be here as we have . ’ |
| 9 | You hardly had room enough to do your job , but you dare n't tell 'em to get out o' the way ; or else they 'd say they 'd as much right to be there as you had ! |
| 10 | The nice beer-bellied English gentleman with the Union Jack T-shirt and shorts , a can of lager in one hand and a cigarette in the other , has just as much right to be there as you do . |
| 11 | But it was not to be quite as he had hoped either . |
| 12 | However , if we win our next game we will be ahead as we lost to Palace in the title season . |
| 13 | ‘ The results were much as we had expected in an extremely tough year , ’ said Mr Heath yesterday . |
| 14 | The wallpaper , the chair , the tiny desk , the narrow bed : all were exactly as they had always been . |
| 15 | The patterns of responses were exactly as he said they would be , provided that one begins treatment , whether acute or chronic , with the 0/1 potency . |
| 16 | The relics were exactly as I 'd left them , inside the hexagram , nothing had changed . |
| 17 | You never could tell with Felipe de Santis and at the moment things were just as he wanted them . |
| 18 | They were just as I remembered them . |
| 19 | There was no wind and the smoke rose straight from the farm chimneys and the bare branches of the roadside trees were still as they stretched across the cold sky . |
| 20 | They were still as they waited below . |
| 21 | Below her hospital gown , her legs were still as she remembered — although her reinforced thigh and shin bones made them two and a half inches longer . |
| 22 | You were there as it happens . |
| 23 | Like everything else , things were never as they seemed . |
| 24 | And it 's only as we fulfil our function with the body . |
| 25 | It 's only as you begin to come out of the Ketamine state that you begin to appreciate where you are or where you 've been . |
| 26 | The Advisory Committee has agreed with the Director 's proposal-either as it stood or subject to specified modifica-tion ; |
| 27 | It is only as we become at ease with the condition of our own humanity that we can accept another person 's . |
| 28 | It is only as we remain exiles , stay-behind agents , spies in enemy territory , that we can really learn to delight in God alone . |
| 29 | The main reason is obviously as I said earlier in my in my erm summary of my statement , to reduce congestion , reduce delays , to reduce accidents and to give scope for environmental improvements within the urban area . |
| 30 | It 's best as I see it . |