Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] as [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had nothing to do with his empathy , for shield as deep as she would , until the whole World became flatly three-dimensional , the conviction was still there . |
| 2 | She had pleaded for help as eloquently as she could . |
| 3 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 4 | I promise to sing for Hochhauser as well as I can . |
| 5 | End of story as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 6 | It was the end of cabaret as far as we were concerned . |
| 7 | Peter Calvocoressi has described the principle of Enigma as succinctly as it is possible to do : ‘ The Enigma was an encyphering machine that produced a highly-variable scramble of the 26 letters of the alphabet by passing electric current through a set of moveable rotors , each of which by its internal electrical connections contributed to the overall scramble . ’ |
| 8 | There was not much of this kind of nonsense as far as I could tell by eavesdropping around the room , but there were cries of anguish when the prices of some of the wines were announced . |
| 9 | There are two important systems of nomenclature as far as we are concerned . |
| 10 | At the start of the season , the defensive system was a sweeper one , it worked superbly , we were winning though , but it , it 's the , it 's the reincarnation of the battle of Culloden as far as I 'm concerned ; Bonnie Prince Charlie just trying to swamp the Duke of Cumberland . |
| 11 | There is also leading edge research taking place into pushing the limits of compression as far as they can possibly go . |
| 12 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 13 | Earlier sociologists paid considerable attention to the religious , moral and collective sentiments of societies , but recently this has not been brought into models of society as fully as it once was . |
| 14 | Robbe-Grillet showed himself to be willing to embrace this psychological/subjectivist mode of analysis as readily as he had previously accepted Roland Barthes 's imprimatur as the model chosiste . |
| 15 | Dior voids making its customers look ridiculous with extreme designs which will go out of fashion as quickly as they came in . |
| 16 | About how I was some kind of prophet as far as he was concerned and he was desperate to have me Confirmed . |
| 17 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 18 | The Akhenaten is interesting because he was the first Ayatollah of history as far as we know . |
| 19 | The specific reference by Jesus to the flood again confirms that it was a true fact of history as far as He was concerned . |
| 20 | With their wingers , the ball is flashing across the face of goal as often as it is delivered in the air and Cantona will probably thrive on this sort of service . |
| 21 | Erm , I was just saying this before you came in Hannah that er er they 'll probably be quite different groups from the beginning of February and certainly will be er a change of tutor as far as you 're concerned cos I wo n't be involved in the . |
| 22 | She flung the fragment of saucer as far as she could , watching it spinning against the sky . |
| 23 | As a matter of fact , one of the men from Scotland Yard , a very nice inspector , told me on the way out that the whole thing was a waste of time as far as he was concerned . |
| 24 | Are we going to hide the ravages of time as cleverly as we can for a few more years , or gradually make the necessary adaptations in order to create a new image that is not a faded version of the old but corresponds in an attractive and lively way to the new stage in life which we have reached ? |
| 25 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 26 | So how do interest groups come into existence as often as they do ? |
| 27 | Maybe she could have surfeited him with pleasure as surely as she could have overwhelmed him with agony . |
| 28 | With the amount of alcohol he had on board he could not be sure of playing any further conversation with Ramsbum as tactfully as he would wish . |
| 29 | I 've been giving him artificial respiration , and I think he 's going to be all right , but we ought to get him into shelter as quickly as we can . |
| 30 | That 's put you in your place , my girl ; Roman had n't even enquired how she was — their lovemaking had already vanished into limbo as far as he was concerned . |