Example sentences of "[prep] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are busy at home or out at work ( and perhaps you have others to look after as well ) it can be hard to envisage any free time . |
| 2 | Erm they can then feel that their family 's being looked after as well , so it helps them not to worry about that side of it . |
| 3 | The earliest industrial sites are now often looked after as carefully as those of abbeys and castles . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean that when we divorce after as short a time as possible you 'll give me a lump sum ? ’ she enquired , her voice frigid . |
| 5 | A rational player in a game can not be thought of as simply taking his rivals ' actions as given by some ad hoc assumption . |
| 6 | Thus , as Romaine points out , the following utterances might be thought of as functionally equivalent , in that they have the same communicative purpose , even though the surface syntactic forms are not necessarily related : |
| 7 | There is growing recognition of the dedication of disabled athletes , but many feel their efforts are still thought of as somehow less significant than those of able bodied competitors . |
| 8 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
| 9 | The genetic control of behaviour patterns in different species is , for all we know , so diverse that neither experiment should be thought of as particularly representative of behaviour as a whole . |
| 10 | He was a very earnest , very intelligent gentleman — and very much a gentleman , whom I never thought of as particularly ambitious . |
| 11 | The pitch was not , it must be admitted , of as high a standard as Wormsley . |
| 12 | All the electronic equipment used should be of as high a standard as possible since the poorer the recording , the less useful it is as a classroom aid to teaching . |
| 13 | Exhibitors reported that although the visitors numbers were slightly down on those for ‘ 88 — due to current trading conditions — their quality and purchasing power were of as high a level as ever . |
| 14 | I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered . |
| 15 | The Buddhist goal is Nirvana , which some Western writers have thought of as completely negative , annihilation or nothingness . |
| 16 | If the precursor O 2 is passed through an electrical discharge so that dissociation and recombination leads to the formation of as well as the symmetrical species , the products of reaction with X will also include and , which are different molecules ; their frequencies will probably be quite similar , but their frequencies will differ considerably . |
| 17 | These cover all lifting tasks , and should n't be thought of as just applying in an industrial environment . |
| 18 | It must be thought of as just one of the tools available to business today for managing the ever increasing volumes of information . |
| 19 | BRIAN Deane , Sheffield United 's star striker , last night asked not to be thought of as just a target man . |
| 20 | Such differences were thought of as ‘ natural ’ or ‘ given ’ , as were certain psychological traits , for example women were thought of as physically more dexterous and emotionally more volatile . |
| 21 | These diverging processes are best thought of as locally autonomous in the manner of the ‘ recursive ’ procedure of Chapter 3 , rather than as coordinated in some grand central design . |
| 22 | More recently the focus has been on literature which might be thought of as racially damaging . |
| 23 | During his final years he extensively revised , rewrote and rearranged his poems , especially The Prelude , and although the changes he made are not always improvements , they add up to the formation of the definitive text of the poems , so that many lines and phrases which we think of as unmistakably Wordsworth date from these latter years . |
| 24 | That is , indeed , the line which has been taken in cases concerning the Scottish Union legislation ( e.g. McCormick v Lord Advocate , [ 1953 ] SC 396 ; Gibson v Lord Advocate , ( 1975 ) SLT 134 ) which , however , have failed thus far because none of the acts complained of as allegedly infringing the terms of union ( e.g. the conferment upon Her Majesty by the Royal Titles Act 1953 of the title of ‘ Queen Elizabeth the Second ’ , when there had never been an Elizabeth the First of Scotland ) has in fact infringed those terms . |
| 25 | The requirement implied in this formulation , that I am always morally obliged to do the best I can , is accepted as reasonable by some commentators , while it is thought of as unreasonably demanding by others . |
| 26 | By focusing on the day to day practicalities of business life in collaboration with businessmen , it will be possible to see how far what are usually thought of as mutually exclusive approaches are , in fact , reconcilable . |
| 27 | The first step is to ensure that the waste is disposed of as close to its source as possible . |
| 28 | Within the overall acceptance of innate sociality in humans we have tried to shift the debate on human aggression or peacefulness away from definitions and absolute categories , to an investigation of alternative moral orders in which the human person is perceived of as radically different from that constructed through the Judaeo-Christian tradition . |
| 29 | Once this alienation had set in , it was inevitable that , as in our day , the loved one should come to be regarded — at least by the conscious mind — as no more than a body to be disposed of as quickly and hygienically as possible . |
| 30 | Do the easy ones first , the ones that you can definitely answer , rattle those of as quickly as you can so then you know what time you 've got to spend on the difficult ones That 's a very good point . |