Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be the same as me going to a medical conference or to the stock exchange and telling them where they were going wrong . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yet they were as nothing compared to the eighty-eight major rings that clustered near the apex of the dome . |
| 4 | He looked up as someone rattled at the front door of the shop ; irritably he waved them away . |
| 5 | Probably be glad to get rid of her , she thought gloomily , then looked up sharply as someone rapped at the back door . |
| 6 | The snapping of twigs as someone moved over the thick , soggy mass of fallen leaves . |
| 7 | As someone seduced by the clever remake that was ‘ Iron Lion Zion ’ , I ca n't say that I feel quite as lubricated by this one . |
| 8 | However , as I argue in the final section , the extent of sexual dimorphism will depend not on the extent to which reproductive success varies in the two sexes but on the comparative effects of particular phenotypic traits on the breeding success of males and females . |
| 9 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 10 | ‘ As I looked at the magnificent vehicle I could not help thinking of the historical ‘ Experiment ’ of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , or of the Exhibition excursions of 1851 , when the GW nailed rough boards across their permanent way trucks at Didcot to accommodate their third class passengers ! |
| 11 | I turned round , half-expecting to hear a giggle , a rather inane giggle ; and then as I looked at the thick shadowy scrub near the gate , and remembered the grim reference to Prospero , a more sinister explanation came to me . |
| 12 | I felt frightened as I waited for the mysterious man . |
| 13 | Later I found out that a standby wife had got halfway down the aisle before turning back , remorseful at abandoning her husband , leaving one empty seat — my seat , I brooded , as I waited for the next flight . ) |
| 14 | Another three weeks passed as I waited for the reassuring ‘ chit ’ . |
| 15 | Now , my natural caution exerted itself as I stared round the banqueting hall . |
| 16 | It would also allow me to experiment as much as I likes with the interesting colours of the Winsor & Newton Artists ' Acrylic Colour range and with some of the techniques that are particularly well suited to the acrylic medium . |
| 17 | The journey back to London went quickly as I mulled over the strange background to Froggy Davies ' death . |
| 18 | Erm improving market share , well all of our businesses have improved their market share during this recession and I 'll , I 'll mention them as I go through the individual companies . |
| 19 | In relation to the former , as I indicated in the first paper , our capacity to invent commodity vocabulary is not paralleled by levels of commodity understanding . |
| 20 | As I indicated in the preceding chapter , innovative approaches to language teaching that have been recommended in the past have not , generally speaking , been subjected to this kind of pragmatic treatment . |
| 21 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 22 | Going to the first GLF meeting brought together these two aspects of myself as I saw for the first time the emotional need to have a context where I could be open and proud of my gayness , as well as the political context where my sexuality would seem relevant to all the other things that were going on around me at work and in the country at large . |
| 23 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 24 | As I argued in the previous chapter , boxing was the first sport in which institutional arrangements permitted a black presence : almost every weight division produced black boxers of such brilliance that they were virtually without equals ( see Henderson , 1949 , 1970 ; Maher , 1968 ) . |
| 25 | As I pass into the cool , dappled light , the deep silence of the wood surrounds me . |
| 26 | It was only as I rapped on the open door of his office that I realized the plan was upside down . |
| 27 | As I reached for the fallen picture he said to me , ‘ That door 's gooin' ter fall off its 'inges one of these times . ’ |
| 28 | I found myself mentally putting aside half the afternoon for the task as I struggled over the incomprehensible jargon in my handbook . |
| 29 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 30 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |