Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For as long as I am the champion I will not recognise or defend or fight for their dishonoured belt . ’ |
| 2 | Charles wanted his protégé in and as I was the resident ( and unpopular ) Baroque sculpture specialist , I happened to be in the way . |
| 3 | At night I tossed and turned to dreams of such emotional intensity that I went to work as tired as I was the day before . |
| 4 | And of course , as I 'm the Editor and set up the rules for these features , I can cheat a little bit over costs … |
| 5 | So all they 're asking really as you 're the landlords , do you have any objection to them building a new er mower store ? |
| 6 | Erm a as you 're the project coordinator and I 'll , I 'll get it into the system ? |
| 7 | In fact , it was n't until after we were married I knew he wanted to go out with me ’ ) , as she is the Yanks ( ‘ American tourists talk so loudly so they can be heard above their clothes ’ ) . |
| 8 | Gwendoline had enjoyed it too , especially as she was the cause of it , though nobody knew that of course . |
| 9 | The mother was very distressed at the living arrangements as she was the housemaid for the whole extended family and had very little time to spend with her son . |
| 10 | In other words , instead of almost doubling year by year , last we are about the same , we have n't got all the confirmations , we 're about the same as we were the year before , give or take a few , about say five percent . |
| 11 | If " focusing " in this case were to involve levelling as part of new dialect creation , then we might expect /e : / and /o : / to become the new focus , as they are the majority variants , the prestige variants almost everywhere , and arguably simpler in phonological terms than the others . |
| 12 | They should benefit most from the system , as they are the information ‘ requirers ’ . |
| 13 | Women are in favour now as they are the outsiders and anyone who looks and acts differently is preferred currently . |
| 14 | It 's hard to divine the facts of her early life since her autobiography , Lady Sings The Blues , is full of tawdry details which are as likely to be figments of a pulp imagination as they are the truth : the way she tells it , she was routinely mistreated and beaten , recruited for a brothel and more or less saved only by a small talent for holding a tune . |
| 15 | On the question of the government 's proposals I 'm entirely opposed to the er the idea that they should wash their hands of their er , obligations er , the nineteen sixty eight act as as a number of members know er , gave it as they are the duty of a local authority to acquire some sites for gypsies some local authorities er , obeyed that and er they actually provide the sites , like Harlow , other authorities just ignored it ! |
| 16 | But it 's unlikely you 'll have heard of ’ Awatinas ’ … as they 're the number one group in Bolivia . |
| 17 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 18 | The roots of disillusionment — in so far as they were the fruit of twelfth-century conditions and not merely the natural response to too high or too vaguely expressed expectations — lay in the intellectuals ' belief , stated by John of Salisbury . |
| 19 | Most of the restoration has been on the exterior of the buildings ; most of the interiors are still as they were the day the Germans were defeated . |
| 20 | As it is the relationship of the head to the rest of the body ; it is often referred to as ‘ the head , neck , back relationship ’ . |
| 21 | It celebrates creativity amid doubt and despondency — creativity as energy but also as a duty , work to be done by man as it is the sun 's task to shine . |
| 22 | Investment in the National Accounts is entirely a ‘ flow ’ concept , as it is the addition to the stock of fixed capital or to the stock of inventories in any given year . |
| 23 | This problem is not so common with the bell and pad as it is the alarm doing the waking of the child and the child is already wet . |
| 24 | Confidence is an essential ingredient in happy child rearing , and many experts on child care recognize that where such confidence is found , it should not be attacked , as it is the foundation of the mother-child relationship . |
| 25 | As it is the structure you are concentrating on , you get it again in the next utterance . |
| 26 | This was Grahame 's Fowey at the turn of the century — just as it is the Fowey of today . |
| 27 | As it is the second , we have to consider the possibility that it was just complacency , which the minister vehemently denies , or even downright carelessness . |
| 28 | It is the position of the switch — on rather than off — that made the windscreen wipers start to work , as it is the position of the heater and the density of the snow that cause the other mentioned effects . |
| 29 | The teaching of values is up to the school , she argues , as it is the teachers ' opinion that children respect . |
| 30 | The term occupier is rather misleading , as it is the person who controls the premises , rather than the physical occupier , who is responsible . |