Example sentences of "as [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally was anyone else as f***ed off as me with Radio 5 doing commentary on the red scouse ( mid table going nowhere ) playing QPR ( ditto ) , and making that the major headlining game instead of Leeds ( second in the table ) against West Ham ( reviving at the moment ) ? |
| 2 | Athelstan studied the jars , dismissing them as nothing but mild cures for ague , aches and pains . |
| 3 | But it was as nothing to the humiliation which the unions would pour on his government in the last two years of its term . |
| 4 | Incest and necrophilia were as nothing to the amorous Egyptian gods . |
| 5 | All nations are as nothing beside him ; |
| 6 | What line A leaves open and what is further specified by line B is the question : in whose estimation are the nations as nothing beside him ? |
| 7 | The mystery of the missing millions is as nothing in comparison . |
| 8 | He sees the cost of effective management training as nothing against the true cost of incompetent management . |
| 9 | The defendants , some of them very young , belonged to a small left-wing group known as Everyone for the Motherland Movement ( Movimiento Todos por la Patria — MTP ) ; at the time 13 of them were arrested inside the barracks and five nearby , while two , including a priest , surrendered later . |
| 10 | She then tested his creativity by asking him to write down all the things he could do with various objects such as a brick or a shoe , and all the things that would happen if certain events suddenly occurred , such as everyone in the world losing their sight or having to walk on all fours . |
| 11 | If the trustees have power to pay or do in fact pay capital transfer tax due on assets which the settlor puts into the settlement the Revenue have taken the view that the settlor has thereby an interest in the income or property of the settlement , and that the income of the settlement should be treated as his for income tax purposes under [ TA 1988 Part XV ] . |
| 12 | " The common duty of care does not impose upon an occupier any obligation willingly accepted as his by the visitor . " |
| 13 | Begin to see yourself as someone with plenty of money to spare . |
| 14 | After several years doing the rounds of St Vincent Place she was spotted as someone with an aptitude for the executive floor . |
| 15 | Despite these fluctuations in his status I remember him fondly on his infrequent leaves as someone with a great sense of fun . |
| 16 | Speaking as someone with a job I 've got to be very careful about giving advice to people who are in a much worse situation than myself , but from the research we did erm it is clear that it 's very important erm not just to sink in and dwell on your problems , not just to erm stay at home , not meeting other people , not engaging in activities . |
| 17 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 18 | She was aware of her now , not just as a daft , cantankerous old woman but as someone like herself , fearful and isolated . |
| 19 | because it can count as their as part of their |
| 20 | Hopefully Oldham will prove me right … that SHOULD be an ok game as they are too crap to come and defend for 90 mins , so might try and attack us ( especially as its on the box ) . |
| 21 | For these people going into debt is not a way to finance newer extravagences but the only way to maintain a lifestyle they have been brought up to accept as theirs by right . |
| 22 | He has had to make do without his familiar retinue of civil servants and , as plenty of critics from his own side have pointed out , he neither looks nor sounds like a prime minister . |
| 23 | And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat , |
| 24 | So would be the One Thousand and One Nights ; and a later times stories such as She by R. Haggard , and Lost Horizons by Hilton would come in the same category . |
| 25 | It hardly augurs well — especially as none of them have won an international in Paris . |
| 26 | After the album , we did two or three scattered tracks and various things , but as none of it really sold , we suddenly did n't see him around any more . |
| 27 | It is possible that the two women are one and the same , or that there is a serial killer on the prowl , but as none of Barbs 's friends or neighbours give a damn where she is , her continuing absence occasions little comment . |
| 28 | I was very lonely in Edinburgh , as none of my friends there was personally involved in the invasion . |
| 29 | It is difficult to accept the praises of some American critics for the overblown gigantism of the Beaux-Arts , particularly as none of them has followed Ruskin 's injunction to see architecture as mirroring the life of a society in all its facets . |
| 30 | As none of the small libraries with establishments under 100 were in this group , this represents 43% of the libraries with establishments over 100 . |