Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kendall stormed : ‘ The players are letting themselves down as well as everyone connected with this club . |
| 2 | The end-product , as everyone knows from all the projections and mock-ups they keep making public to try to justify the wildly escalating costs , will have two arms and two legs , a language capability , and a fairly sophisticated emotional and moral response . |
| 3 | Reverting from Mr Jingle to Oliver Michaels , he added , ‘ Six months have proved to me that the passions of Lions are as nothing compared with those of Lionisers . ’ |
| 4 | The job losses in United Kingdom defence industries as a result of the change of emphasis in British procurement are as nothing compared with those that would be suffered under the Labour party 's defence policy — if so dignified a term can be used for something so confused , contradictory and misleading . |
| 5 | A good many people suffered minor injuries in consequence ; but I believe those who suffered injuries were as nothing compared to those who wished to sustain an honourable contusion or bruise , or who , to make the whole setting more dramatic , lay on the ground as if laid out for dead without any injury at all . |
| 6 | The reservations were , however , as nothing compare with those about the proposal for an audit review panel . |
| 7 | There was an explosion of laughter as someone observed with considerable accuracy upon the nature of the disturbance , and then the servants , the offending if well-meaning steward crimson-faced at their head , were entering the room with platters and trays to serve the meal . |
| 8 | One feels that two hours spent in one or other of the jammed little rooms — there are four as far as I remember at this instance , two down , one up , and one in the cellar — will be rewarding , refreshing , and never questioned by the owners . |
| 9 | As I looked at this mounting pile of equipment I thought that there was no way this was going to fit into the spare bedroom . |
| 10 | But they did that to me when I was their age and now as soon as I get to fourteen when when you can , when you can , when you could do that And now today it 's not fair . |
| 11 | I share my hon Friend 's appreciation of the value and importance of the large reforms proposed in the Bill of 1939 , and when I decided , as I announced on 23rd March , to appoint an Advisory Council to assist in the preparation of a programme of reforms , I certainly had it in mind that many of the proposals in that Bill — improved it may be by further consideration and fresh ideas — might find a place in such a programme . |
| 12 | Still , I thought as I waited in thick over-coated ranks for the Germans to come and count us , it 'll all be over by this time tomorrow . |
| 13 | The hall and the gallery and the enormous stained glass windows which faced the door as you came in , and the three reception rooms were ours , and as I suffer from terrible claustrophobia , I thought it was a wonderful place to live although David , who I am sure does n't suffer from claustrophobia as badly as I do , being British and like most British people , would be content to live in smaller environments . |
| 14 | As I left in early afternoon to catch the London train , I reflected that here was as large number of small businessmen who were likely to see some radical changes in the way they operated . |
| 15 | The opening games did not go quite as I expected in that I was surprised to see Wales beat Ireland . |
| 16 | Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected . |
| 17 | Or was the fact of their friendship with Gideon just an unwelcome coincidence , as I had at first supposed . |
| 18 | As I wrote on this page recently , opera is barely a living art form any longer . |
| 19 | As I thought about that perceptive question I realised its implications . |
| 20 | And , as I thought about that , another image came into my mind . |
| 21 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
| 22 | Sheffield , like Rome , is built on seven hills and I had to cross most of them , anger fuelling my journey as I thought of all the excuses I 'd swallowed . |
| 23 | And my cheeks were red as I thought of those precious moments . |
| 24 | I must say I agreed with them as I agreed with some of the misgivings expressed by our German colleagues , too . |
| 25 | So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them . |
| 26 | Oh , yes , you could , you certainly could , and as I said for long periods , parental an and offspring self interest will overlap . |
| 27 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 28 | And er there r there are no real er gentry in Orkney you see , and you 'll always find that if anybody gets a a a Well as I said to one boy here , I said to him look here I said your old grandfather worked in that shop till his backside was hanging out his brigs . |
| 29 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 30 | The objectives give us a way of er measuring at the end of the course whether the course has achieved for you what you wanted from we 'll come back as I said to those this afternoon and and just review them to see that you got out of the course what you . |