Example sentences of "as [pers pn] are [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's too hot to make conversation with such stupid ones as you are this afternoon .
2 ‘ We actually should have gone to Edinburgh in November to receive the award but as we are all volunteers none of us could make it , ’ said Jean Reid , secretary of Islay and Jura Community Enterprise .
3 Aware as we are these days of groups and their many uses , little exploration has been made until recently of the group as a context for spiritual direction .
4 But this implies that if we regressed C t on the three variables and entered separately , rather than as a sum as in equation ( 3.18 ) , we should observe that the coefficients estimated on these three variables are approximately all the same , as they are all estimates of α t , provided that we have specified the model correctly .
5 Every few years the gap is filled with a useful directory , but handy as they are such titles rarely survive for more than three editions : witness the demise of the Antique Collectors ' Club 's sadly missed Guide to Specialist Nurseries .
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