Example sentences of "as [det] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six papers had been accepted for publication during his first Oxford year , but he was as little pleased with them as with The Woodland Life : ‘ I am impatient to get to Lincoln College ’ he wrote to Hooton . |
| 2 | They see routine non-manual workers as little different to manual workers : they neither own the means of production nor do they perform important social control functions for capitalists . |
| 3 | She told him about open heart surgery , and lasers ; about credit cards and the cost of living , and the vast expense involved when buying a moderately sized residence like Rose Cottage , which he regarded as little short of scandalous , totally unable to begin to comprehend such vast sums of money being paid for such a relatively small return . |
| 4 | However , foreign commentators were almost unanimous in assessing that the less-than-ringing endorsement for the preservation of the union , especially in the Russian Federation and the Ukraine , represented a blow to Gorbachev 's authority ( many people had looked upon the referendum as little short of a vote of confidence in Gorbachev ) . |
| 5 | I remember that when Philip and I first made our way through London to a shop which was depicted in an advertisement , in spite of the crowds on either hand all along our route , in spite of the full directions of our elders , we were as much elated by our achievement as if it had been an arduous discovery made after a journey in a desert . |
| 6 | Medical practitioners were only too well aware of the social differences among their patients , and hence were as much preoccupied with class as they were with gender . |
| 7 | There is , of course , the Bill of Rights 1689 but it is just as much subject to repeal , and has in fact been impliedly repealed more than once , as any other Act of Parliament , and in any case has the effect rather of strengthening the hand of Parliament , than of protecting the ordinary citizen against its excesses . |
| 8 | He is as much subject to the Yasa as anyone else . ’ |
| 9 | He 's as much right to be a part of this as anyone . ’ |
| 10 | A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen |
| 11 | Philip Snowden , Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1929 to 1931 , was as much obsessed with financial rectitude as any Conservative and proved to be Mosley 's doughtiest opponent in the Labour party . |
| 12 | This may have been as much due to tradition as to limited supplies or tin . |
| 13 | The backs of my legs were trembling at that time , but this was probably as much due to the cold as to the feeling of betrayal that had invaded my being . |
| 14 | Carlo was made a cardinal at 22 and Archbishop of Milan at 26 , though it has been suggested that these appointments were as much due to the boy 's uncle being Pope Pius IV as to any inherent abilities . |
| 15 | This is an interesting monument because the architect , Rodolfo Vantini , who completed the work in 1828 , wanted to get away from the conventional Roman triumphal arch , ( a decision said to have been as much due to the local inhabitants complaining that they did not want their view of the Lombardian Pre-Alps blocked as to any creative urge ) . |
| 16 | The extra pound a day for their film work did little to compensate for their tiredness which surely must have been as much due to under-nourishment as overwork . |
| 17 | Given these assertions , it is easy to see that one reason for the neglect of Freud by sociologists , especially in Britain and to a lesser extent in the United States , is as much due to the fact that intellectual fashions have changed as to anything intrinsic to Freud 's theory . |
| 18 | It is as much due to his neglect as my intervention that you find yourself thus , cut off from normal society . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the facts of the case were now plain enough in her spread : Madcap Agnew remained as much alive inside them as did the glorious seventeenth-century adept of the Art . |
| 20 | On the earlier day when the dubious dealing took place , the share price had jumped too , though only half as much relative to the market . |
| 21 | He also became friends with the eccentric Duke of Montagu of Boughton House in Northamptonshire , for ‘ In Stamford … there was not one person , clergy or lay , that had any taste of learning or ingenuity , so that I was actually as much dead in converse as in a coffin . ’ |
| 22 | " Take as much lean of boiled ham as you please , and half the quantity of fat , cut it as thin as possible , beat it very fine in a mortar , with a little oiled butter , beaten mace , pepper and salt , pot part of it into a china pot , then beat the white part of a fowl with a very little seasoning ; it is to qualify the ham , put a lay of chicken , then one of ham , then chicken at the top , press it hard down , and when it is cold , pour clarified butter over it ; when you send it to the table cut out a thin slice in the form of half a diamond , and lay it round the edge of your pot . " |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm as much concerned for her emotional as her bodily welfare , ’ the doctor warned . |
| 24 | Effective staff management is , therefore , as much concerned with ‘ why ’ and ‘ how ’ as ‘ what and ‘ when ; In other words , organisational processes are as significant as organisational tasks and the one should inform the other . |
| 25 | The safety of an army in the field is dependent not only on defending itself against direct attack but also on its maintaining open communications with its base … we should be as much concerned with threats to the rear as with threats to the front . |
| 26 | Drugs movies such as Naked Lunch and My Own Private Idaho seem in many ways to play deliberately on the similarities between drug experience and watching a film : both of these are clearly just as much concerned with seeing wonderful things in the dark as they are with falling apart under pressure . |
| 27 | Second , in contrast in a country , such as Italy , the system of stratification and class structure in society forms an important part of the analysis , which is as much concerned with workers and the working class as with unions and collective bargaining . |
| 28 | In other words , to explain or understand crime and deviance we must be at least as much concerned with the activities of the conferers of these labels as with the recipients . |
| 29 | Civic design was as much concerned with the spaces between buildings as with the appearance of the buildings themselves , and the same held for the design of residential areas . |
| 30 | As we shall see , the controls which the courts have developed are as much concerned with supplementing legislative intent as with implementing it . |