Example sentences of "as [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 2 | Now as everyone of a decent age knows bands should always have brass in them . |
| 3 | President Gorbachev is as uncertain as everyone about what the future of the two — perhaps one — German states will be , but there is no doubt that the Gorbachev vision of a new Europe had to encompass the Wall 's disappearance . |
| 4 | Zak 's long scene began with impressive fireworks as soon as everyone in the dining car had been served with a drink . |
| 5 | There was cheering , clapping , stamping on the floor and banging on the tables , as everyone in the restaurant crowded round them . |
| 6 | The location was carefully chosen : Barnoldswick contains a Rolls-Royce factory and supplied the B in RB211 , as everyone in the vicinity is proud to proclaim . |
| 7 | The negotiations also had some typical Brussels features ; the talks came to a climax as everyone in Brussels was due to depart on August vacations — and the late-night negotiations led to final announcements on 2 August 1984 . |
| 8 | Of course , as everyone in the district knows , the path was destroyed many years ago by the Great Landslide . |
| 9 | He was the one who was responsible for your brother 's death , as everyone in the business knew ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We have never given up hope , especially as everyone in the North West was fighting for us , ’ added Fran . |
| 11 | Finally , the systems integration market is becoming increasingly competitive as everyone from hardware manufacturers to software houses jump on the bandwaggon to try and offer value-added ‘ solutions ’ as opposed to simply raw product . |
| 12 | It 's a portrait of Louis Bouilhet , as everyone from the gardienne of Croisset onwards and upwards will tell you . |
| 13 | Members of the 1966 World Cup-winning side spoke of their shock and sadness last night as everyone from the Prime Minister to Pele paid glowing tribute to Moore . |
| 14 | I had a most interesting conversation about Italian opera with a waiter called Giovanni , who was as enthusiastic as me about Verdi . |
| 15 | Her name was Nellie and she was in the same class as me at school and her family had not long moved into the neighbourhood . |
| 16 | Was anyone else as terrified as me at the prospect of the Scum getting the team of the year award last night ? |
| 17 | Well his name was , a very brilliant man , well w he 'd be nearly as old as me of course . |
| 18 | Well she copes because she had the same problem as me with her hands if she 's writing for long , her hands ache , so she can write a longer letter if she types , so I said I , I did n't really , I like a hand written letter best it seems more personal somehow , perhaps they do , having a typed letter means you can send a longer one , they all mean |
| 19 | ‘ That is , if you do n't mind being in the same room as me for a few minutes ? ’ |
| 20 | It improved when I made this close friend , who had some of the same ideas as me on things like sex , drugs , politics , music . |
| 21 | Once you 've lost as much money as me on the horses — then you come and give me a sermon on gambling , all right ? ’ |
| 22 | And yet his knowledge was as nothing beside the compulsion that drove him to see her again . |
| 23 | The file was a remarkable achievement , yet it was as nothing beside what the boy was capable of . |
| 24 | CONTRACT caterers are sick and tired of the industry-wide view of their sector as nothing but company canteens peopled by ‘ Doris-the-dinner-lady ’ . |
| 25 | In Castenada 's case , he ‘ enters a world so different that he comes to accept reality itself as nothing but a social construct , with effects so devastating … that ethnography becomes mysticism ’ ( Goward 1984 : 90 ) . |
| 26 | A detailed description of that period would be impossible , as nothing of any substance happened . |
| 27 | ‘ He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff 's default ; or perhaps that the escape was the consequence of vis major , or the act of God ; but as nothing of this sort exists here , it is unnecessary to inquire what excuse would be sufficient . |
| 28 | Howbeit all these things appeared as nothing to Rodrigo when he thought of the wrong done to his father , the first which had ever been offered to the blood of Layn Calvo . |
| 29 | Such a sum would be as nothing to his father , he knew , but to others it was a fortune . |
| 30 | Things went a bit flat among the cakes for some … but that 's as nothing to the one recurrent nightmare for the organiser |