Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a short silence then the dogs ' barking grew into a raucous row ; shouts and the shrill of hunting horns carried clear to us as a fat buck , together with two hinds , galloped from the trees and across the meadow in a flurry of snow . |
| 2 | The argument that cheaper labour costs force manufacture abroad should not be acceptable to us as prospective purchasers . |
| 3 | With the Rummidge A to Z open on the passenger seat beside her , she set off to find J. Pringle & Sons , somewhere on the other side of the city : the dark side of Rummidge , as foreign to her as the dark side of the moon . |
| 4 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 5 | As I look out of my window — the scene is as interesting to me as a Canaletto — I see the clouds suddenly begin to rise o at high speed , like a milkshake being drawn up a straw , the top layers , the fluffy stuff , going last . |
| 6 | Once the film has stopped I want you to think of things which could occur to make the situation dangerous to you as the driver of the car . |
| 7 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 8 | Mysticism , in particular , is as meaningless to me as music must be to the tone deaf . |
| 9 | Will it all seem as quaint to them as the age of steam and the stovepipe hat now seems to us ? |
| 10 | Being ‘ in on it ’ , so to speak , had dissolved fear ; and death , for the first time , seemed as natural to me as birth . |
| 11 | Thus , as do relatives , neighbours may reciprocate for care offered many years ago ( 'she was very good to us as children ; she was very good to mother' ) . |
| 12 | There was no knowing how much might be useful to us as background . |
| 13 | Good note-making methods are invaluable to you as a student because : |
| 14 | There is a tendency for members of each stratum to develop their own ‘ subculture ’ , that is certain norms , attitudes and values which are distinctive to them as a social group . |
| 15 | Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason . |
| 16 | It 's got to be meaningful to you as an individual , otherwise it wo n't work . |
| 17 | During the same time , the size and the shape of the company has changed to such a point that some of our assets are no longer meaningful to us as one of the world 's leading independent exploration and production companies . |
| 18 | For humanities students , as for science students , the values that attracted them to a subject were values which were also important to them as individuals . |
| 19 | As time went on and I knew that I had a fight on my hands , healing became as important to me as my new diet or the other new therapies . |
| 20 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 21 | ‘ I went to class to meet friends , dancing was secondary and the social side was as much if not more important to me as competition . ’ |
| 22 | When my right hon. Friend is dealing with trade with Libya , will he bear it in mind that the United Kingdom is happy and willing to trade anywhere in the world , because that is important to us as a trading nation , but we must never sacrifice our values and standards , particularly those concerning our attitude towards international terrorism ? |
| 23 | Is your work ( whether paid or unpaid ) just a way of paying the rent , or is it important to you as a person ? |
| 24 | ‘ You said he was as important to you as a desk or a wardrobe ! ’ |
| 25 | Each division is led by a Head of Services who is responsible to me as their Chief Officer . |
| 26 | Her face seemed puffy to her as if tears had been drenching it while she had been unconscious . |
| 27 | In Guinness plc v Saunders and Another [ 1990 ] AC 663 , a director claimed a payment was due to him as a result of an agreement between him and a committee of the board , but not authorised by the board of directors . |
| 28 | The people seemed friendly to him as if he often went there . |
| 29 | It was of course self-evident to him as a rationalist that dreams are a product of the imagination , rather than any mystical intervention . |
| 30 | sweet-smelling to her as cedar . |