Example sentences of "[prep] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are busy at home or out at work ( and perhaps you have others to look after as well ) it can be hard to envisage any free time . |
| 2 | Alexis and Paul Gilmour are behind the campaign and they are after as many signatures as possible . |
| 3 | ‘ Tin Can Island ’ proclaim the postage stamps , and old ones are said to be almost as sought after as British Guiana Triangulars or Penny Blacks . |
| 4 | The earliest industrial sites are now often looked after as carefully as those of abbeys and castles . |
| 5 | Erm they can then feel that their family 's being looked after as well , so it helps them not to worry about that side of it . |
| 6 | By 1130 her reputation had spread far and wide and she was sought after as superior for many communities . |
| 7 | Considered an essential item of diet in the days when hazardous voyages to the islands were made by the Ness men in their open sailing 'sgothan , these days it was sought after as more of a delicacy , in spite of its rather revolting appearance when cured . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean that when we divorce after as short a time as possible you 'll give me a lump sum ? ’ she enquired , her voice frigid . |
| 9 | It 's no longer thought of as cranky or old-fashioned , as the press tries to make out , but as a much-needed way of helping to preserve this world by finding alternatives to chemicals and peat-cutting . |
| 10 | And suddenly there was a rampant little queen dying to violate everything you 've thought of as normal ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ In my country , ’ she began like a student from abroad , ‘ the English are often thought of as fey . ’ |
| 12 | In my country , ’ he mocked her slightly , ‘ Americans are often thought of as vulgar . ’ |
| 13 | Yet it contains a contradiction , since the class-struggle , or more generally the struggle against oppression , is thought of as always visibly at work in history in a clearly timeless way . |
| 14 | But it is plain than in Mrs Lowndes 's society , writing , for instance , was conceived of as typically a spare-time activity . |
| 15 | Pound 's point , of course , in these essays reprinted from magazines and from earlier collections like Pavannes & Divisions ( 1918 ) or Instigations ( 1920 ) , is that these matters that we think of as recondite should not be so regarded . |
| 16 | Armed with Lipton 's motto — ‘ Good architecture is good business ’ — they employ a wide range of architects , both established and up-and-coming , commonly thought of as ‘ good ’ . |
| 17 | City analysts have put a price tag of as much as £60m on Hargreaves and some potential bidders , including the Irish group CRH , have intimated that the business would be worth more to an existing player in the market than a newcomer . |
| 18 | While the strip cartoons are produced with a small team , the latest multi-million dollar animated feature film has occupied an international team of as many as 300 artists and technicians for two years . |
| 19 | Drawing on psychoanalysis , Rochlin ‘ rewrites ’ masculinity in a way which makes a virtue of what was hitherto thought of as , or experienced as , a defect : its much remarked insecurity . |
| 20 | For example , he wanted to be a member of as many clubs — of any description — as possible . |
| 21 | His fascination with these systematic orderings of society by kinship was such that he undertook a massive comparison and classification of as many systems of kinship terms as he could find from around the world , terms such as ‘ cousin ’ , ‘ uncle ’ , etc . |
| 22 | Individual gens are linked with one another , in that their ancestors are thought of as related , thereby creating an obligation between the members of these gens . |
| 23 | For him there is one origin to phenomena we tend to think of as distinct : private property , the family , the State . |
| 24 | Furthermore , Engels argues , marriage and the family — these ideas which Victorians thought of as peculiarly linked with private life and as having nothing to do with political and economic life — are in reality intimately associated with it . |
| 25 | That Asian children are teased about their food may not seem very important in itself , but it does rather lead to the thought — if people eat food which is thought of as disgusting and unclean what are these people like ? |
| 26 | Writing , it 's true , is n't thought of as one of the problems of British cinema . |
| 27 | This , though , is not a normal year , or what many once thought of as normal . |
| 28 | Restrop is of as perfect and pure a style as Elizabethan houses of this size ever reached . |
| 29 | Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 . |
| 30 | Once this alienation had set in , it was inevitable that , as in our day , the loved one should come to be regarded — at least by the conscious mind — as no more than a body to be disposed of as quickly and hygienically as possible . |