Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher pledged that the relief would remain for as long as she was Prime Minister and the opposition parties appear unwilling to commit themselves to abolishing it . |
| 2 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 3 | The head said that that would be the case and that Balbinder would stay for as long as he needed their help . |
| 4 | No all , all that , all that was going to be done was to see about as far as I 'm aware , the feasibility of get getting one of the Education Officers and one of the |
| 5 | Well , we 're getting them to go for a hundred , which sounds a lot , but the ground 's quite variable so , you know , some of it is really good planting land and some of it is n't , so , you know , it 'll be up to the teams to go for as many as they can . |
| 6 | In the ‘ bit plane ’ method , Fig. 4 is , in effect , duplicated for as many bits as are needed for each pixel . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , regional development grants worth as much as 25 per cent of the capital cost of setting up a plant are available in certain departements ( counties ) in the Rhone-Alpes region . |
| 8 | Barns in North Yorkshire sell for as little as £20,000 for a tiny village blacksmith 's forge with no land , to £125,000 for a very large barn with a paddock . |
| 9 | Parentally condoned absenteeism can , according to research studies over the past ten or so years , account for as much as 50–75 per cent of non-excused absenteeism . |
| 10 | Economic studies of cleaning , however , have shown that manual labour accounts for some 89 per cent of energy costs which themselves account for as much as 96 per cent of the total cleaning bill . |
| 11 | Richard Baxter continued to write and to preach for as long as he could . |
| 12 | So far about 400 hectares of land have been reclaimed and the programme is to continue for as long as is necessary . |
| 13 | This gives a jumble of echoes that will sometimes persist for as much as a few seconds after the original sound has ceased . |
| 14 | The systematic component will persist for as long as the unemployment rate deviates from its natural value , U * ; . |
| 15 | And it 's something you might think about as well , sitting at home , do you think you 're going to need care in due course , and if so , where 's it going to come from ? |
| 16 | Cavity treatment should be delayed for as long as possible to allow the injected solution to remain in contact with blood and other body fluids and care to avoid spillage should be exercised when carrying out drainage . |
| 17 | In such a slice , appropriate stimulation of the input pathways will also lead to LTP which persists for as long as the slice can be maintained alive . |
| 18 | I decided to try for as long as he was trying . |
| 19 | It 's nice no to be forgotten about as well . |
| 20 | If you meditate for as little as 10–15 minutes each day , you will soon notice the difference it makes , and it will rapidly become a high priority in your life . |
| 21 | ‘ I have always wanted to write for as many people as possible , I want my books to be on the general fiction shelves as well as the feminist shelves . ’ |
| 22 | Assessment would include major group projects , in which the conduct of the project would count for as much as the end product , as well as written examinations . |
| 23 | In short , then , while one is able to adduce specific reasons for the creation of certain of the joint muderris/muftiliks , it is important to recognize that these offices were a not uncommon feature of the Ottoman learned profession in the sixteenth century and that the sheer momentum of established practice may count for as much in assessing the reasons for their creation as what appear to be locally important considerations in each individual case . |
| 24 | He tapped in the code , then waited , knowing the signal was being scrambled through as many as a dozen sub-routes before it got to its destination . |
| 25 | The DT 2600 E has about as many features as can be squeezed on to a hot air gun . |
| 26 | Your Board is confident that the plan for restructuring the Group will result in a more streamlined , flexible and dynamic organisation and it is intended that it be carried through as fast as possible . |
| 27 | Oh you hear it , it 's rung for as much as twenty minutes while I 've been walking round . |
| 28 | They talked about other Christmas flops and bombs , delaying for as long as they could any mention of TCT 's ‘ T is He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ , which had cost practically nothing to make and had already done 120 million in its first three weeks . |
| 29 | Wooden dowel has been used for kite spars for as long as we can recall . |
| 30 | Stereotypes , however false , tend to persist for as long as the social differences and inequalities they reinforce . |