Example sentences of "as [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff 's default ; or perhaps that the escape was the consequence of vis major , or the act of God ; but as nothing of this sort exists here , it is unnecessary to inquire what excuse would be sufficient . |
| 2 | A detailed description of that period would be impossible , as nothing of any substance happened . |
| 3 | In any case , why should someone with short hair styled by the most recently qualified , pay as much as someone with long hair looked after by their most expert ? |
| 4 | It is easy to keep quiet — who wants to be thought of as someone with dirty habits or as a woman-hater ? |
| 5 | Sir , I thought it appropriate as someone with 11 years ' tree planting and habitat management experience to pass on some hedge-cutting tips . |
| 6 | Gin had been the great popular comfort of Paradise Street in her childhood , gin and tea , so she took it as someone from another background might have made a dish of bread and milk . |
| 7 | Section 1(6) states : No duty is owed by virtue of this section to any person in respect of risks willingly accepted as his by that person ( the question of whether a risk was so accepted to be decided on the same principles as in other cases in which one person owes a duty of care to another ) . |
| 8 | As yours for several years |
| 9 | Still , there was always food here at the blood bank as well as plenty of sweetened fluids to quickly restore energy . |
| 10 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 11 | Which it is , of course , as you of all people know . ’ |
| 12 | Jonah ( portrayed as everything from muscular faun to bearded elder ) has an iconography whose pedigree and variety would make Noah envious . |
| 13 | This and other double bed patterning can be enhanced by the use of a colour changer — Brother have one for the double bed ( the KR900 ) as well as one for single bed knitting ( the KHC820A ) . |
| 14 | They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them . |
| 15 | They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them . |
| 16 | They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them . |
| 17 | By implication , Levitt takes the view that a global market should be viewed as one with particular market segments that may bear little or no relationship to geographical boundaries . |
| 18 | Adopters may receive little warning of an imminent placement , and may have as little as one to two days notice . |
| 19 | The Merlin sleeping bag is rated as one to two season and comes with a well designed zip . |
| 20 | Is the Minister aware that three annual checks by Welsh trading standards officers discovered that as many as one in five lorries on Welsh roads are overloaded , yet the chance of being checked is one in every 5,000 journeys ? |
| 21 | Redundancy and dismissal were , not surprisingly , the most important reasons for job loss , but one survey found as much as one in five people who entered into unemployment did so after finishing a temporary job , whilst another put the proportion at only six per cent . |
| 22 | It is estimated that as many as one in five people suffers from PMLE . |
| 23 | Nowadays as many as one in five cars on UK roads is a diesel . |
| 24 | The result of an unequal balance of power is where I went back to , is the precipitating factor in marital violence which is , you know , some surveys put as high as one in four families , is in fact when the woman becomes uppity . |
| 25 | As many as one in 12 Britons dislike our cross-Channel neighbours with the Welsh topping the league . |
| 26 | Christine believes the problem is much bigger than anyone believes and cited a recent study which claimed as many as one in three children suffer some kind of sexual abuse . |
| 27 | Key ( 1989 ) portrays the essential shift as one from functional assessment of abilities and selective assessment of criteria for rationed services to one of ‘ affirmative assessment ’ through which |
| 28 | These were all heavy bomber stations and did have some very tough times , losing many aircraft and many more coming back from ops badly shot up , with dead and injured on board and sometimes bombs as well , the same as we in 8 Group and all the other Groups were experiencing . |
| 29 | Quoting extensively from a textbook in a PhD thesis , for example ( especially if you treat it as an authority rather than as something for critical comment ) is likely to give the wrong impression : that you are a beginner rather than an expert in your subject . |
| 30 | This atmosphere will ultimately emerge as something of immense value when ‘ the kindly light of reason ’ finally sweeps away all the incredible and stifling nonsense , which has been introduced from time to time in futile attempts to counter the inexorable demand that reason and common sense shall ultimately triumph , and replace superstition and blind senseless faith . |