Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lord , our Mass is over , ’ the choir sang in sweet , lilting voices as everyone walked down the hill into town once more . |
| 2 | Kendall stormed : ‘ The players are letting themselves down as well as everyone connected with this club . |
| 3 | But that 's our business , taking risks , and it works well enough — as long as everyone plays by the rules . ’ |
| 4 | Presentation of the cup was made by Ian Proudfoot , Group Finance Director to Halbert Oliver , Captain of Douglas Reyburn 's team as everyone gathered in the hotel after the match . |
| 5 | There was only the scratching of pens and the rustle of paper as everyone waited for the reply . |
| 6 | There was an instant relieving of the tension as everyone joined in the laughter . |
| 7 | The end-product , as everyone knows from all the projections and mock-ups they keep making public to try to justify the wildly escalating costs , will have two arms and two legs , a language capability , and a fairly sophisticated emotional and moral response . |
| 8 | The noise was intense , constant chatter , voices raised in argument , an air of expectancy , even tension , as everyone pretended to be involved in what was happening around them but secretly watched the great ones at the high table . |
| 9 | Jason spent the afternoon on a whirlwind tour of Casablanca , then ended up in Rick 's bar , as everyone used to . |
| 10 | There were a few minutes of silence as everyone concentrated on their food . |
| 11 | ‘ Pollensa ? ’ she croaked , punching out her floor and raising her eyes skywards as everyone did as the lift doors slid shut . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then , as nothing seemed to be happening , her mother took her home again . |
| 14 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But if February was dreadful , it was as nothing compared with March . |
| 17 | My own solitude was as nothing compared with their constantly patrolled loneliness , without hope of escape . |
| 18 | But any gloom on the grain front is as nothing compared with the problems for the oilseed rape harvest . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Human power was as nothing compared with the strength of God . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The view from the tower was as nothing compared with the view Amaranth unwittingly presented . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Whatever reservations they had about dealing with me were as nothing compared to the reservations they had about dealing with each other . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Its suffering would be as nothing compared to what he had in mind for Bernice . |
| 29 | The heat you encountered inside the Chamber of the Looms is as nothing compared to the heat of the Time Fire . ’ |
| 30 | Yet they were as nothing compared to the eighty-eight major rings that clustered near the apex of the dome . |