Example sentences of "[pron] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My primeval instincts should have been satisfied , yet I as far from content . |
| 2 | Oh I I as far as we 're concerned er the when bit is if you were are available er now we could even put you on this Thursday . |
| 3 | It er I I mean I as far as I 'm concerned it 's er extremely difficult to get people to er come to social events . |
| 4 | I as so surprised by this ( knowing how hard some Lakes HSs can be — ever done Woden 's Cheek or Malediction ? ) |
| 5 | Mr , er I as so far as I got , Not impossible for development to occur with these constraints . |
| 6 | Smith obviously assumed that someone as badly dressed as himself could not possible be in a group and wondered why he was in the dressing room . |
| 7 | Having on hand someone as fast about the field as Back , so quick on to man and ball , could well prove an invaluable option . |
| 8 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 9 | The lure of Tinseltown and the magic dollar was always going to prove irresistible to someone as unashamedly ambitious as Kylie , and so it is proving . |
| 10 | ‘ But I find it very sad that someone as high up as Mr Pound should castigate a sport he clearly knows nothing about . ’ |
| 11 | Even to someone as straight as myself , the bearded gentleman is preferable to Anneka Rice or Judith Chalmers . |
| 12 | It 's a shame that someone as obviously capable of expressing himself as you is given to such bursts of undisguised racism and ignorance . |
| 13 | So even someone as obviously corrupt as Richard Nixon , people started talking about the new Nixon , new Nixon the statesman . |
| 14 | Some have suggested that his appointment at Berlin was the result of a compromise by the orchestra , an attempt to secure someone as far removed from Karajan in character , musical and personal , as the world could offer . |
| 15 | We use it to project to the world our fantasies about ourselves as more beautiful , more imposing , more powerful than we inwardly feel . |
| 16 | Seeing ourselves as less important than anyone else , or less worthy or deserving than others , is just another form of arrogance , disguised as humility or neurosis . |
| 17 | Its as much a part of being a modern-day star as appearing on chat shows or signing autographs . |
| 18 | The so-called ’ swan-upping ’ ceremony dates back to the fourteenth century … but nowadays its as much a fun day out as a way of keeping the swans healthy . |
| 19 | Does The Faerie Queene insist that it is to be read in such a manner that its role as a history ( which as both epic and romance it can claim to be symbolically ) must be seen as intrinsically different from the account of the English in Ireland which Spenser outlines in A View ? |
| 20 | Crop-protection guns were issued wholesale , the users of which as often wounded elephants as killed them outright , so that the surviving animals became even more dangerous . |
| 21 | We are not pre-programmed machines , though we all carry with us important biological inheritances which as much affect the colour of our eyes as our purely human gifts and abilities . |
| 22 | It accepted that while there were arguments for a full scale review , the priority had to progress on an alteration which as quickly as possible , established the principle of a Greater York new settlement and progress on the greenbelt local plan . |
| 23 | ( The club 's brochure includes advice on etiquette which as always sounds surrealistic in French . |
| 24 | Thank you for my copy of the December issue , which as always has a lively and readable quality , with a prestigious appearance that I think well-serves the image our Institute would wish to present to the world . |
| 25 | My hands left the gun hanging in mid-air above my knees and went for the catapult , which as always was hanging on my belt , the arm-rest stuck down between that and my cords . |
| 26 | Part of the three-year letter of intent went so far as to say — this is quite astonishing that for an initial period , which as far as I can recollect was never defined , British Rail should subsidise bus services because buses were being substituted for trains . |
| 27 | The object sought is an ever more accurate understanding of Community legal texts and an interpretation which as far as possible ensures harmony between national and Community provisions . |
| 28 | On the day he left , Gould wrote to Captain Washington at the Royal Geographical Society , announcing proudly , ‘ I shall have many novelties to add to science as well as to communicate a great deal respecting their habits since I have already obtained the nests and eggs of 60 species not one of which as far as I am aware have been described . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps I should start by telling you something I 'll not be talking about and that is the subject of financial resources and how Lynda 's getting on in her discussions with chief secretary , I do n't suppose that comes to you as any surprise but I shall I not be talking on that but let me say that we remain committed strongly to a substantial aid programme which as far as possible is directed towards the poorest countries . |
| 30 | Still the hired spider in the back clucked and unwedged himself as fast as he could to go and check his beloved bits and pieces by touch . |