Example sentences of "as [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 2 | Members of the 1966 World Cup-winning side spoke of their shock and sadness last night as everyone from the Prime Minister to Pele paid glowing tribute to Moore . |
| 3 | Things went a bit flat among the cakes for some … but that 's as nothing to the one recurrent nightmare for the organiser |
| 4 | And then arrangements had to be made to transport his cats as well as himself to the new flat . |
| 5 | Just the same as you with the other game . |
| 6 | The judge did not regard the case as one at the higher end of the culpable homicide scale but a human life had been taken and he jailed Sutherland for five years . |
| 7 | Cyrene , like Syracuse , was culturally cosmopolitan , so that for instance its art owes a clear debt to Athens , witness the bronze head from the mid-fifth century , in the style of Phidias ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate xxiv , 3–4 ) ; it was multi-racial , so that the sixth-century reformer Demonax allowed one tribe for the native ‘ dwellers round about ’ , as well as one for the old Greek settlers and one for new arrivals ( Hdt. iv.161 , cp. 159.4 ) . |
| 8 | Once he had ( rightly ) rejected that argument , he treated the matter as one for the unfettered exercise of his discretion , in which W. 's views were merely a relatively unimportant factor , and expressed the view that his real choice was between the conflicting medical views of Dr. M. , the consultant psychiatrist in whose care W. had been for over a year , and Dr. G. , supported in the event by Dr. D. , another consultant psychiatrist with specialist experience in the field of anorexia nervosa . |
| 9 | Standing as one during the vital mixing stage of the album , the group asked Allison to leave the studio when the atmosphere became too tense , and he waited outside while the band finished the job themselves . |
| 10 | How is it possible for an external symbol , as well as one in the internal representational medium of the creature 's mind , to be employed by one animal and perceived by another as a request for a specific tool ? |
| 11 | One of the letters in the practical was the same weight as one in the written test . |
| 12 | People are already beginning to think of pre- and post-AIDS periods just as we in the seventies grew accustomed to thinking of pre- and post-gay liberation periods . |
| 13 | At first the freemen of both town and country had an organization and a type of property which still retained something of the communal as well as something of the private , but in the town a radical transformation was taking place . |
| 14 | I was as bemused as anyone by the sudden resurgence of optimism in Catesby . |
| 15 | It 's another indication that Francis means to continue the Hillsborough revolution started by Ron Atkinson — he changed the thinking in the boardroom , and now Wednesday are as ambitious as anyone in the Premier League . |
| 16 | WITH three Australians , the greatest number since the 70s , and the club 's first American rider , Middlesbrough Bears are set to start a new season confident they can be as good as anyone in the Sunbrite League 's second division . |
| 17 | When the 27-hour non-stop TV spectacular was last staged in 1990 , the Hampshire people proved as dotty as anyone in the bizarre ways they raised cash for the needy in the local community . |
| 18 | It currently has a service within the Fire Service wh which costs a certain amount and we ca n't presume and I would , I suspect that Councillor is is actually trying to do is to get in by the back door for cut that we will then be forced to make the March March March Committee well I hope that members of this at this this this Committee would reject that er suggestion as it at the last meeting . |
| 19 | The air was full of sounds — the jangle of reins or goat bells , noises — could they travel so far ? — of parties making for , perhaps already on , the lake ready to take advantage of the promised full moon , dog barkings , cow lowings , sheep , horses : the town and its fjords of fields was as restless as he with the hidden cries of the night . |
| 20 | They exchanged meaningful glances from time to time — and it was apparent that his brother was as troubled as he by the disturbing events . |
| 21 | IT 'S quite clear our Prime Minister , in his ‘ Mission For Maastricht ’ , sees himself as anything but the grey man he has been painted . |
| 22 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 23 | The four frigates , MEKO 3600 H2 Type , are as modern as anything in the German navy . |
| 24 | For in each country where the game had taken hold , the essential English principles had been retained , but the game had been redefined , building up traditions and skills as substantial as anything within the English game . |