Example sentences of "be as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 you know you sort of , you were there , I am as a trainer you were sort of digging away there getting a bit more information out about people .
2 ‘ The more anonymous I am as an actor the easier it is to make you believe I 'm someone else . ’
3 Continentals are unable to be butlers because they are as a breed incapable of the emotional restraint which only the English race are capable of .
4 But the chances are as a customer I go back to the dealer and he says ‘ ah , you 've got a warranty , claim on that ’ .
5 In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries .
6 Social worth in our society is related to the workplace : you are valued by what you do for a job , not what or who you are as a person .
7 In particular , there is now a very developed elite theory tradition of analysing the social backgrounds and interconnections of different elite groups , using evidence of how these personnel are recruited , where they live , and who they meet with , as surrogate indicators for how they act , and interact , what their values are , and how cohesive they are as a group ( Rustow , 1966 ) .
8 This chapter addresses two questions : first , how important temporary jobs are as a step into employment for unemployed people ; second , to what extent the ending of temporary jobs is an important reason for becoming unemployed ?
9 When they go to a match they are as a matter of course spat upon and jostled , threatened and assaulted ’ — The Times .
10 There 's no doubt if you analyze a lot of dreams , that an awful lot of them are as a matter of fact .
11 Most of the calls made to houses are as a result of information given out by LASSY — the largest computer database in Europe .
12 Erm , the only variations which are actually going outside the Committee control are as a result of the internal market variations which are going on down .
13 Continentals — and by and large the Celts , as you will no doubt agree — are as a rule unable to control themselves in moments of strong emotion , and are thus unable to maintain a professional demeanour other than in the least challenging of situations .
14 When young people play central parts in adventure stones , their motives and actions are as a rule suitably moderated nor are they expected to concern themselves with elaborate points of honour .
15 Where written records do survive they are as a rule woefully incomplete , and for prehistoric communities they are by definition completely absent .
16 Even gifts made to individuals are as a rule intended to strengthen family links .
17 just as left handers are as a rule more variable in their hand preferences , so too are they less completely lateralised at the cerebral level .
18 Such propositions act as vehicles of explicit ontological claims and are as a rule informative , synthetic propositions ( some , like Kant , would argue that they are necessarily synthetic ) which , if true , widen our knowledge .
19 They are as a rule .
20 One of the particular pleasures of visiting Brno is how welcome you are as a visitor from the west and how interested people often are to talk to you .
21 are as an instance do that , the present government er last year , in fact since it some over , it was the seventy nine , er nineteen seventy nine .
22 Very broadly these are as an emergency , via a GP referral , from an out-patient clinic or via a waiting list .
23 Can you now describe the kind of person you are as an adult ?
24 ( 2 ) Committees of the whole House , which are as the name suggest .
25 Whether this has been in Bangladesh or Bradford or East London , the teacher must learn to accept the children as they are as the starting point of her teaching .
26 The role of Highlander in this project so far had not just been as a catalyst , nor a co-ordinating agency for the network — though this in itself is a vital role — but also as a meeting place for the widely scattered groups which came to the Center to hold regular training workshops .
27 She was very tidy and had been as a child , she said ‘ I 'm obssessive ’ .
28 My training has been as a scientist , and I still ask questions which begin ‘ Why ? ’ ( as well as others beginning ‘ How ? ’ and ‘ What if ? ’ .
29 It has been suggested that the shock of widowhood for a woman is like compulsory redundancy for a man ; and for a woman whose career has been as a housewife this might certainly be the case , even though for others it could prove a relief from the narrow constraints of their domestic role .
30 The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner .
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