Example sentences of "as [prep] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is concerned with telling you as much about what we do n't yet know as about what we do know . |
| 2 | ‘ As for myself I know that I am not yet ready to retire completely . |
| 3 | His lordship was clearly enchanted by the whole business , Charlie was wearing the superior smile which always accompanied his demonstrations of lingual dexterity , and as for myself I was experiencing a mounting euphoria . |
| 4 | As for what it gets in return , Spain gets little farm money , as it has few rich farmers ( who get most from Europe 's upside-down farm policy ) and little research and development money , as it lacks high-class laboratories . |
| 5 | But the celebration of this act of creation is not offered as a simple honouring of ‘ pure ’ beauty , for the concept of art within which this praise is offered honours the film as much for what it is not as for what it is . |
| 6 | This should be as much for what it can not and does not achieve , as for what it does . |
| 7 | As for what I meant by progressive methods , he did not believe in just filling children with data , if that 's what I meant . |
| 8 | And as for what I want from you , I hardly think this is the time or place to tell you that . |
| 9 | As for what he 's doing now , I do n't know , he 'll still be tipping them over the bar somewhere . |
| 10 | As for what you do investigation — that is something new . |
| 11 | But as for what she had exchanged it for — that still seemed more like fantasy than waking reality . |
| 12 | As for me I 'm the most successful because I can box a little , punch a little , strut a little and talk a little . |
| 13 | He is very wealthy and everyone looks up to him but as for me I could understand from my limited Italian he is very sad because one of his ships is very late in arriving in port and is feared lost . |
| 14 | As for me it was preparation for Morning Service at 10.30 am . |
| 15 | And as for who he is … oh , farmer , racehorse owner , playboy , landowner , owns a big house — the gardens of which , to everyone 's amusement , ’ he added with his infectious chuckle , ‘ he opens to the public . ’ |
| 16 | I must say that I am happy to make that statement and in view of some of the things that have been , that have appeared in the media recently here 's a statement that needs to be made as for your your your ques , what the , the Chief Constable I welcome the statement and the actions of the Chief Constable on this very concerning issue . |
| 17 | Since the falsification of one hypothesis of similarity leads to the formation and testing of another , these differences are never settled , and so ‘ difference ’ is the sign of what psychology does not , as well as of what it does , know . |
| 18 | Yet the hand touching the breast now seemed like a communication , as of one who , coming to an appointed place , says humbly , here I am . |
| 19 | Erm , the with with reference to something that comes up later on the training budget looks a small figure , as against what we 're talking about later in the meeting . |
| 20 | er as to what would happen to the metered charges as as against what they are at the moment . |
| 21 | Employing the familiar juxtaposition of ‘ the remarkably law-abiding character of twentieth century English life ’ and ‘ the law-abiding England of pre-1940 ’ as against what he repeatedly identified as ‘ new ’ — ‘ the new juvenile crime ’ , ‘ the new rebels ’ , ‘ the new generation of indifferent parents ’ , ‘ a new type of violence ’ , ‘ the new state of insecurity ’ — Fyvel thus considered that there was ‘ something in the way of life , in the break-up of traditional authority , in the values of the news in the headlines , which encouraged widespread youthful cynicism in general and rather violent delinquency in particular ’ and that this was ‘ a by-product of a new economic revolution which has put spending money on a scale not known before into the pockets of working-class boys and girls ’ . |
| 22 | My own feeling is that er er as against someone who is er reasonably determined and reasonably methodical there is very little privacy , there is more privacy if you are extremely rich and can afford to have bank accounts in Liechtenstein and can afford to hire lawyers to prevent stories about you appearing in the newspapers , but for th for the majority of us erm there is very little privacy . |
| 23 | What on earth was she doing , she wondered , climbing the steps of a palazzo , as behind her what seemed like the entire English colony of ex-pats in the province of Siena came straggling . |
| 24 | Remember you can show signs of judgement in terms of your body language ( see p. 109 ) as well as with what you say . |
| 25 | What he wished to do was , in broad outline , in accord with the principles of the Libyan revolution as well as with what he thought right . |
| 26 | In fact , this was quite normal procedure by now in Romania , since they also determined the holiday plans of their senior colleagues , down to the destination , length of stay as well as with whom they spent their vacation . |
| 27 | The House of Lords , not for the first or for the last time , held that ‘ determination ’ should not be construed as including everything which purported to be a determination but was not , and so the court was not precluded from deciding that the order of the Commission was a nullity . |
| 28 | My green cord trousers came next , followed by my fawn Kickers boots , lables removed as from everything I wear because I refuse to be a walking advertisement for anybody . |
| 29 | as from what I gather . |
| 30 | The alley opened out into a large square courtyard from which , on all sides , reared five-storey buildings , all in a state of dilapidation , and outside of each was a mound of filth and rubbish , some giving off a stench which left nothing to the imagination as from what it was derived . |