Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Dusun ( Philippines ) this would be impossible , as a verb is always signalled by affixation ( Dusun does use change of stress for other grammatical features ) . |
| 2 | His eyes were as golden as a hawk 's , but so still and intent they awed her faintly . |
| 3 | Though , had she thought she might get out of his car and leave him without so much as a word being said between them , she found she was mistaken . |
| 4 | As soon as a character is within reach , or if they are attacked themselves , the Daemonettes attack and the illusion of their appearance is immediately dispelled . |
| 5 | Today I had three of them in the back of Armstrong , the ideal vehicle for such a job as a cab was unlikely to get moved along or clamped at a delicate , or indelicate , moment . |
| 6 | She now drew her chin into her chest and in a voice almost as deep as a man 's she said , ‘ And you dare to tell me to shut up , me ! who 's given her life to you . |
| 7 | Lear is now experiencing the truth of La Rochefoucauld 's maxim that ‘ So long as a man is still in a position to help others he will rarely encounter ingratitude . ’ |
| 8 | As long as a man was unfree , he had no access to the royal courts , but could plead only in his lord 's court . |
| 9 | Those days have gone only so long as a Government are in power who are determined to continue a regime of common sense and reasonable and balanced industrial relations . |
| 10 | There is a kind of corporate responsibility , and as long as a government is just it is a citizen 's duty to support it , but when the actions or a government hurt the individual and harm the nation it is the duty of a citizen to withdraw his support . |
| 11 | It is hardly surprising that such a powerful event as a revolution is necessary to uproot the social order and destroy these institutions . |
| 12 | This metaphor is developed in the second last line to describe the voice of the tramp as ‘ as sweet as a bird 's … ’ . |
| 13 | He was black and gleaming , his outline as smooth as a dolphin 's even down to the hint of rubber . |
| 14 | Very often we are only interested in θ satisfying θ ≤ U. In this case we would stop as soon as a tableau is reached in which θ ≥ U. |
| 15 | By the argument a principle is pressed to an absurdity , as a bubble is blown until it bursts . |
| 16 | If the person claiming is not looking after the estate , the Social Fund Officer will write to the person who is , at the same time as a payment is made . |
| 17 | Her face was set and nervous and white as a clown 's with powder , except for her lips which were bright orange . |
| 18 | As a ball is hit , spins and moves forward , the air that hits the front of the ball is dragged over the top of the ball , creating a slight vacuum on top of the ball . |
| 19 | And three twelfths is the same as a quarter is n't it . |
| 20 | Philippa , whose face was normally as radiant and untroubled as a child 's , had not stopped frowning since Lee had started talking to her that afternoon and it annoyed Conrad to see it . |
| 21 | As soon as a child is born entitlement begins and is never questioned until the child itself attains economic independence . |
| 22 | As soon as a society is able to produce more than the bare minimum needed for survival , it is possible for classes to emerge . |
| 23 | There she sat , in her familiar party outfit , an eccentric , much-worn , embroidered Chinese garment , her neat , solidly cut , smartly sloping black hair as tidy as a doll 's , looking perhaps faintly Chinese rather than Jewish , diminutive as she was , and with those high cheek-bones : and there sat Alix , also by Charles 's standards impoverished , though not by her own , which were more austere . |
| 24 | The new 600 Plus film packs for all cameras , £8.99 for a pack of 10 , include a battery to power all the camera 's functions — so as long as a film is loaded , the camera has power . |
| 25 | Priority , as between successive mortgagees of shares , is determined by the date at which the mortgages were effected , as a company is under no obligation to accept notices by mortgagees . |
| 26 | So long as a fissure is known to exist between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor about the ERM , the task of convincing the financial markets that policy is in safe hands will be made infinitely more difficult . |
| 27 | In the three-dimensional systems treated in section 2.2 , the strange attractors are locally planar : a small displacement perpendicular to this sheet will decay , as the trajectory returns to the attractor ; a small displacement along the sheet will remain , as a trajectory is effectively pushed forward in time ; and a small lateral displacement will grow in time . |
| 28 | In Britain , copyright exists as soon as a song is recorded on to tape or written on manuscript . |
| 29 | The little history of the period that has survived is an invaluable asset , but there are great dangers in using archaeological data to elucidate chronologically-based historical problems when the span of as little as a generation is so crucial . |
| 30 | Now , the same people who discarded him as a kid are the ones who want to shake his hand . |