Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb pp] to " in BNC.

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1 Whatever reservations they had about dealing with me were as nothing compared to the reservations they had about dealing with each other .
2 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 .
3 Its suffering would be as nothing compared to what he had in mind for Bernice .
4 The heat you encountered inside the Chamber of the Looms is as nothing compared to the heat of the Time Fire . ’
5 Yet they were as nothing compared to the eighty-eight major rings that clustered near the apex of the dome .
6 The intriguing structures they find may be evidence that sudden explosive events play the dominant role in at least some dynamical phenomena , and that molecular clouds therefore have a rightful place in the current perception of the interstellar medium as one subjected to assaults of extreme violence .
7 And yet these are as naught compared to the sheer wickedness of the Luciferi and the treachery of the masters we served . )
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