Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kendall stormed : ‘ The players are letting themselves down as well as everyone connected with this club . |
| 2 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 3 | And last Monday Dr Harold Varmus let it be known that the thrill of winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the morning was as nothing compared with being at Candlestick Park in the evening to see the Giants take the National League pennant for the first time in 27 years . |
| 4 | Whatever reservations they had about dealing with me were as nothing compared to the reservations they had about dealing with each other . |
| 5 | But if February was dreadful , it was as nothing compared with March . |
| 6 | My own solitude was as nothing compared with their constantly patrolled loneliness , without hope of escape . |
| 7 | But any gloom on the grain front is as nothing compared with the problems for the oilseed rape harvest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But however unpleasant monsoonal conditions can on occasion be , they are as nothing compared with the fearsome storms that hurl themselves on the Pacific with terrible regularity . |
| 10 | Human power was as nothing compared with the strength of God . |
| 11 | Its suffering would be as nothing compared to what he had in mind for Bernice . |
| 12 | The heat you encountered inside the Chamber of the Looms is as nothing compared to the heat of the Time Fire . ’ |
| 13 | Reverting from Mr Jingle to Oliver Michaels , he added , ‘ Six months have proved to me that the passions of Lions are as nothing compared with those of Lionisers . ’ |
| 14 | Yet they were as nothing compared to the eighty-eight major rings that clustered near the apex of the dome . |
| 15 | The job losses in United Kingdom defence industries as a result of the change of emphasis in British procurement are as nothing compared with those that would be suffered under the Labour party 's defence policy — if so dignified a term can be used for something so confused , contradictory and misleading . |
| 16 | However , it is as nothing compared with the difficulties that we shall face if the generals , who have effectively staged a coup against civil authority , are allowed ultimate success . |
| 17 | The view from the tower was as nothing compared with the view Amaranth unwittingly presented . |
| 18 | No matter how painful the problems of economic recession here , he says , these are as nothing compared with the suffering of millions in less fortunate areas . |
| 19 | Neither the husband , Mr. Kennedy , nor his wife were customers of the bank ; but the husband was known to Bunn as someone authorised to act for Dempsey . |
| 20 | There was an explosion of laughter as someone observed with considerable accuracy upon the nature of the disturbance , and then the servants , the offending if well-meaning steward crimson-faced at their head , were entering the room with platters and trays to serve the meal . |
| 21 | As someone bereaved through the disease , I felt angry and upset by the flippancy with which you dealt with this subject . |
| 22 | I seem to remember they appear on the Glory Years tape ( as someone mentioned ) . |
| 23 | and then he 's , he 's going out and they 're coming like that direction and he 's looked round and he 's seen the soldier , doing it , he 's gone and this is how I did it and then he put his , like this and he stuck his hands up and as his done that he 's got shot through the body from the side , what 's |
| 24 | There was another ship the same as her called the and another one called the Harrier . |
| 25 | As you requested , your identity will be preserved in the approach letter and interested parties will be asked , in the first instance , to contact MAS , who will assess the parties ' willingness to proceed and then report back to yourselves . |
| 26 | Li Yuan sat there , entranced by the fluency of her playing , the swift certainty of her fingers across the strings , by the passionate tiny movements of her head as she wrought the tune from nothingness . |
| 27 | He said I 'm not fighting for you any more and the queen as she seen his face some days before |
| 28 | Three years ago , the Sunderland-born reporter escaped death when bullets whistled past as she broadcast during the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing . |
| 29 | STAINI RACK NUUL Introspection ( sometimes prompted by birthdays ) that one is not living as one determined to live when one was very young ; or , on the other hand , realizing that one is living in a mode decided upon when one was very young and which is now no longer applicable or appropriate |
| 30 | He calls Mr Forsyth a ‘ clever wee chiel ’ ( child ) , and as one raised in a hard debating school says he would relish a public debate with the Scottish Office Minister and the other candidates . |