Example sentences of "as [pron] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No officer living who has seen so little service as my Lord Marlborough is so fit for great commands , ’ commented William prophetically after the 40-year-old general had , in the autumn of 1690 , rapidly captured Cork and Kinsale . |
| 2 | Your getting as bad as my Aunt Ada . |
| 3 | But as my Lancashire aunty used to say flatly : there 's two kinds of lasses , never forget . |
| 4 | Vultur gryphus , I had been told , was not in as grave danger of extinction as its California cousin . |
| 5 | That was twice as many workers as even the average Soviet factory employed and ten times as many as its West German equivalent . |
| 6 | As well as its North European operation ( covering Ireland , Norway , Finland , Denmark , Sweden , Iceland , Belgium , Luxembourg , the Netherlands and Israel ) , which is run by Interactive Systems ' former European boss , Doug Miller , out of Interactive 's old UK offices in High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , SunSoft has now opened offices in ( Grasbrunn ) Munich and Velizy-Villacoublay ( Paris ) , though both are located within the parent 's premises . |
| 7 | There is thus now an excess of supply over demand which augurs badly for the UK as its North Sea oil is relatively expensive to produce and this has put certain marginal oil fields out of production . |
| 8 | As predicted ( UX No 418 ) , the machines are to be manufactured by Minneapolis , Minnesota-based Tricord Systems Inc which will offer them as its K2 series , though Sequent has exclusive distribution rights for NT versions of the systems , which will ship with a ‘ Sequent skin . ’ |
| 9 | The legislation you face will obviously prevent credit marketing here becoming as mature as its US relation . |
| 10 | With less money but far more visitors , it needs to be at least as imaginative as its New York cousin . |
| 11 | The merger with LIFFE , and the use of a single trading floor , must result in the LTOM contemplating its own Big Bang ( i.e. switching to screen trading , just as its ISE parent did in October 1986 ) . |
| 12 | This is because Convex wants to be able to implement the technology in future generations of its proprietary C Series moderately parallel systems as well as its Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture RISC-based massively parallel products . |
| 13 | The object-oriented framework will support support IBM System Application Architecture platforms as well as its AIX Unix systems ( UX No 323 ) . |
| 14 | The object-oriented framework will support IBM 's System Application Architecture systems as well as its AIX Unix systems . |
| 15 | If a scheme is contracted out of SERPS , it must provide a guaranteed minimum pension that is at least as good as its SERPS equivalent . |
| 16 | Her Edmund ( who lives in Rome ) is more distinguished than I could ever be , and she was never so humble as her Emily . |
| 17 | They regard a trip here as their Wembley but we have to put that out of our minds and produce the results . |
| 18 | In constituencies they fared as badly as their West German counterparts , and nationally even worse , winning overall only 0.4% of the votes . |
| 19 | The Ascot fences are not nearly as fierce as their Mildmay counterparts at Aintree , but several of the fancied horses made remarkably heavy weather of them . |
| 20 | This lets them process graphics at the same speed as their Intel chips instead of the tardy 8MHz allowed by the traditional ISA buses . |
| 21 | It was true if you had an American boyfriend you stood to gain quite a bit in material goods , as their PX always seemed to be well stocked with food and silk stockings , cigarettes and make-up — all things in short supply in England — and for this reason if nothing else the Yanks were never short of female company . |
| 22 | Come as you Eire |
| 23 | And instead of seeing it as something God had ordained , we began to look at the exploitation of the poor by the rich in a political way , but using Christian concepts . |
| 24 | Heseltine may not prove as co-operative as his DTI forebears and , while he may not earn the adulation of predators such as Hanson , he will increasingly enjoy the appreciation of potential targets , such as ICI , Trafalgar House and Vickers . |
| 25 | In July , Tilden Barham , the Battle relieving officer , was carried out of the parish as his Brede counterpart had been in 1830 , a fate shared with the officer at Willingdon , who was led out by jeering women and children . |
| 26 | Gow 's work on Hellenistic epigrams has the same qualities as his Theocritus , and like that book will remain an essential instrument of scholarship . |
| 27 | South Africa , Mexico , Brazil , Spain , San Marino , France , Germany , Britain — Mansell won them all as his Renault-Williams car blazed to triumph after triumph . |
| 28 | As his Colonel Bracebridge remarks to the hero of Yeast : |
| 29 | The former Darlington manager who played for Aston Villa and England is set to take a team to promotion for the third successive season as long as his Leicester team keep their nerve in next Saturday 's crucial last game at home to Newcastle . |
| 30 | It was a queer going on , as his Uncle Walter would say . |