Example sentences of "as [pron] be at " in BNC.

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1 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 . ’
2 Please ( grovel grovel grovel ) help me as I am at my wits ' end with all this shit .
3 As sad as I am at being wrenched away from the telly , I am led to the bar .
4 I 'm as good at this as I am at being chairman of the board — and you know how good I am at that … ’
5 ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes .
6 ‘ Obviously I would like to be as successful as I was at Everton , ’ he said , ‘ but you can not do that in five minutes .
7 But perhaps I was as oblivious at school as I was at home to the sneers or the impatience of others .
8 I had never been so tempted to hit any man as I was at that moment .
9 ‘ 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 .
10 as I was at my bedroom window
11 But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door .
12 The workshop classes were a mixture of all grades of academy , and it was here that I found common ground absorbing my trade instruction ; and happily in this field I was able not to be as conspicuous as I was at school .
13 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 .
14 ‘ Honey , I 'd love to , but I 'm more or less stuck here as much as you are at the moment .
15 They are prepared to pay the same amount of rent as you are at present receiving from it . ’
16 In addition to that you get depreciation of one thousand one hundred and forty four pound per year which , by my reckoning is ninety five pound a month in addition to that , as a Methodist Minister you get a standing charge of five hundred and twenty eight pound per year which is forty four pound pe er , per month and then you also through i in the year if you have a major repair needed on your car you get a hundred and eight pound now , if in fact , I had , I have a Vauxhall Nova , and let me take these figures as you are at twenty four P a mile , or twenty four point five P a mile and if that 's all we are recommended , recommending , in other words , there 's no lump sum at all er , that would mean that I would be getting forty nine pound but Methodist , this colleague in Llandudno if he did
17 You got as far as you were at the wedding
18 She is now reasonably well as long as she is at home , but car journeys and other people 's houses usually bring her symptoms on again .
19 A view of Sugar 's cockpit as she is at Hendon today .
20 no , if Maureen 's the same at , at home as she is at work then you can see why she left home
21 No , you 're wrong , you 're wrong , you 're totally wrong dear , because as long as one 's at work
22 As long as one 's at work
23 The Girls knew that their reputation for dancing as one was at stake , but because they were so well drilled and were accustomed to Finck 's ways , it worked brilliantly .
24 Perhaps the main consequences of the lack of high intelligence in animals is that they are not as good as we are at fooling themselves .
25 Like a good Renaissance poet he replies that this is the principle of decorum ; his form merely recreates his subject-matter : We are inclined to smile at the self-depreciation , as we are at the similar joke in 105 : He has no need for other forms , other themes .
26 I had a close look at the table last night — what really — ehh — scares me is Scum 's away form — in fact they are better away than at Old Scumford — even so they are just as good away as we are at HQ … yes they are vulnerable — but as they got points from the games vs us , Newcastle , Blacburn and Scousers recently i ca n't see what ( who ) is gon na crack them ?
27 minister 's well aware , this is causing considerable concern amongst the small percent of the population in Southend-on-Sea who are interested in European elections because the proposal is that instead of the links with Chelmsford , as we are at present , we 're going to be linked with Thurrock , which of course is something different .
28 I doubt if anyone in the four divisions is entertaining as much as we are at the moment .
29 But it is not yet clear if the Echo technology will be used in production release software from Apple , as there are at least two separate ongoing efforts within Apple to move the Mac environment over to the PowerPC , one using a large amount of translation , the other a large amount of emulation .
30 But it is not yet clear if the Echo technology will be used in production release software from Apple , as there are at least two separate ongoing efforts within Apple to move the Mac environment over to the PowerPC , one using a large amount of translation , the other a large amount of emulation .
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