Example sentences of "as [pron] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her religious sensibility is much nearer to that of the affective Franciscan devotion just as his is to the Dominican tradition of speculative thought . |
| 2 | So be it but , remaining as I am of the view that they were a correct expression of the law , I repeat them as part of the ratio of my decision in this case . |
| 3 | You are as familiar as I am with the processes of monetisation of debt and of the part which the money market in the City plays in the operation of that mechanism . |
| 4 | Since I , without the benefit of tax relief , am paying as much as I am for the Monarchy , I would like them to do what they have to do in silence . |
| 5 | I am as I am through the choices I have made , and I will not whine at fate . ’ |
| 6 | I am sure you are as appalled as I am at the use that has been made of the private letter of a schoolboy to his parents , but it is certainly a lesson for you in the ways of the world . ’ |
| 7 | IMPRESSED just this side of awe as I am by the Department of Transport and its fearless tackling of such problems as juggernaut lorries and EEC regulations , I must nevertheless confess some disquiet about a recent plan . |
| 8 | I thought you 'd be as excited as I am by the idea . ’ |
| 9 | On a personal note , could you pray for me as I am in the process of getting a job in Saudi Arabia myself and will need all the prayer support I can get . |
| 10 | ‘ Honestly , I 'm as fit now as I was during the World Cup and my weight is down to what it was two years ago . |
| 11 | If I was on his staff , as I was during the election , you can have a lot of power — influence — because you can say , ‘ I think you should do this Prime Minister , I think you should do that . |
| 12 | Or am I playing some deep game , as I was with the choice of accommodation ? |
| 13 | ‘ Most important is to have the physical and mental strength to be as successful at the end of this season as I was at the beginning of 1990 . |
| 14 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 15 | Yet , as I watched all this from the very end of the slow queue , I had thought it would be me who would have been regarded the potential menace as I was at the wheel of the most outrageously styled and priced supercar ever . |
| 16 | I knew I would never finish a book so long as I was on the North Shore , either . |
| 17 | ‘ She was standing outside , on the deck overlooking the lake , as I was on the phone . |
| 18 | But just as I was on the point of giving up , the honking bus swerved past me . |
| 19 | No as as I say Doctor , I do n't Same as I was on the valium , you know |
| 20 | there 's a horse erm in some of the fields just coming out of Morpeth towards Newcastle and I saw , pardon me as I was on the bus like yesterday coming into Morpeth and this horse just shot out of nowhere and it was really enjoying itself ! |
| 21 | I walked along the road while Frankland was watching me , but as soon as I was round the corner , I went towards the hill where we had seen the boy . |
| 22 | When I woke up I was almost as amazed by the fair hair as I was by the sex , because both his ‘ father ’ and I are very dark . |
| 23 | Engaged as I was in the struggle with myself , the struggle between my self and my body , other people had no real existence for me . |
| 24 | Whilst I believed their feelings and actions were genuine , I was also aware that they were as steeped as I was in the romance of blindness : the helping hand , God 's purpose for us all . |
| 25 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
| 26 | You may well , for instance , be depending to a large extent on the character of the victim ( as I was in The Murder of the Maharajah ) and the least troublesome way to put that character before the reader is in direct scenes showing the future victim in action . |
| 27 | As long as I was in the country I was home on a Friday night and them again till Monday morning . |
| 28 | I do n't believe the programme has taken off here as rapidly as it possibly could have had all the judges been as enthusiastic as I was in the beginning , but I would say 5 to 10 per cent of the sentenced people now are at least given that option . |
| 29 | And as I 'm in the shop most of the time and know what goes and what does n't , I think you should stick by what I say or get somebody else in who 'll do it better . ’ |
| 30 | I expect Sinbad feels that as I 'm in the last few months of my final year , she 'd better pack me with as much experience as possible before I get whisked away to act staff nurse in some ward . |