Example sentences of "as [adv] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was found that 599 ( 56 per cent ) were classifiable as ‘ new cases ’ , that is , as not being known to any of the agencies in the first survey , and having no known first contact date with an agency prior to April 1985 . |
| 2 | If we think of linguistic analysis as usually being linked to the sentence as the maximum unit of grammar , then the study of discourse attempts to look at the larger contexts in which sentences occur . |
| 3 | Precepts of holiness , he declared , might just as well be preached to a wolf as to a man , if man were naturally and inevitably wicked . |
| 4 | Stanley was also an able stuccoist , but , as with his sculptural works , little can as yet be assigned to him with certainty until the 1740s . |
| 5 | This last fact means that many aspects of Salibi 's theory can not as yet be put to the test . |
| 6 | In 1609 or 1610 Larkin painted the only picture which can as yet be linked to documentary evidence : a portrait of Edward Herbert , first Baron Herbert of Cherbury [ q.v. ] , |