Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [noun sg] as [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This increases the significance of the information system to that of a recommender as to what to do based on value and choices but leaves the final decision to the manager .
2 There is no experience so uncomfortable for a nation as to run headon unawares into an axiom .
3 It was difficult to be part of the life of a man who was as much of a loner as at any time .
4 But I do n't have much of a picture as to how the team are playing .
5 the licensing board may impose such conditions as it thinks fit including a condition as to the type of alcoholic liquor which may be sold under the licence , and an occasional licence granted to the holder of a restricted hotel licence or a restaurant licence shall be subject to a condition that the sale of alcoholic liquor under the authority of the licence shall be ancillary to the provision of substantial refreshment .
6 ( 3 ) In granting an occasional permission under this section , which shall be in writing , the licensing board may impose such conditions as it thinks fit including a condition as to the type of alcoholic liquor which may be sold under the permission , and if the person to whom the permission is granted contravenes such a condition he shall be guilty of an offence .
7 Motion is possible even without empty space ; so long as things simultaneously move into each other 's places , motion is as possible in a plenum as in a crowd .
8 His leather jacket was adorned with the face of a screaming woman symbolising , according to the caption below , Chaos , and his own blunt and pitted features suggested to Preston not so much those of a bird as of a pit bull terrier with acne .
9 No , not enough of a clue as to whether these were the same depredations Johnson had deplored : Elgin had suffered marauders more than once .
10 Even when active , a time interval does not seem the same to a cicada as to a ground squirrel or to ourselves .
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