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as [1]  (CONJUNCTION AND PREPOSITION USES) 
Please look at category 12 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.  
1  conj If something happens as something else happens, it happens at the same time. 
Another policeman has been injured as fighting continued this morning..., All the jury's eyes were on him as he continued..., The play started as I got there.  
2  phrase You use the structure as...as when you are comparing things. 
I never went through a final exam that was as difficult as that one..., There was no obvious reason why this could not be as good a film as the original.  
  As is also a conjunction., phrase 
Being a mother isn't as bad as I thought at first!..., I don't think he was ever as fit as he should have been.  
3  phrase You use as...as to emphasize amounts of something., (emphasis)  You can look forward to a significant cash return by saving from as little as £10 a month..., She gets as many as eight thousand letters a month.  
4  prep You use as when you are indicating what someone or something is or is thought to be, or what function they have. 
He has worked as a diplomat in the US, Sudan and Saudi Arabia..., The news apparently came as a complete surprise..., I had natural ability as a footballer.  
5  prep If you do something as a child or as a teenager, for example, you do it when you are a child or a teenager. 
She loved singing as a child and started vocal training at 12.  
6  conj You use as to say how something happens or is done, or to indicate that something happens or is done in the same way as something else. 
I'll behave toward them as I would like to be treated..., Today, as usual, he was wearing a three-piece suit..., The book was banned in the US, as were two subsequent books.  
7  prep You use as in expressions like as a result and as a consequence to indicate how two situations or events are related to each other. 
As a result of the growing fears about home security, more people are arranging for someone to stay in their home when they're away...  
8  conj You use as to introduce short clauses which comment on the truth of what you are saying. 
As you can see, we're still working..., We were sitting, as I remember, in a riverside restaurant.  
9  conj You can use as to mean `because' when you are explaining the reason for something.  (=since) 
Enjoy the first hour of the day. This is important as it sets the mood for the rest of the day.  
10 You say as it were in order to make what you are saying sound less definite. 
♦ as it were  phrase PHR with cl  (vagueness)  I'd understood the words, but I didn't, as it were, understand the question.  
11 You use expressions such as as it is, as it turns out, and as things stand when you are making a contrast between a possible situation and what actually happened or is the case. 
♦ as it is/as it turns out/as things stand  phrase 
I want to work at home on a Tuesday but as it turns out sometimes it's a Wednesday or a Thursday.  
12 
 →  as against 
 →  against 
 →  as ever 
 →  ever 
 →  as a matter of fact 
 →  fact 
 →  as follows 
 →  follow 
 →  as long as 
 →  long 
 →  as opposed to 
 →  opposed 
 →  as regards 
 →  regard 
 →  as soon as 
 →  soon 
 →  as such 
 →  such 
 →  as well 
 →  well 
 →  as well as 
 →  well 
 →  as yet 
 →  yet 

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