Example sentences of "[noun prp] as [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Was n't Rune Christensen as much a player of games as the man he purported to despise ? |
2 | The publication of the decision caused widespread consternation , not least because Lacey had informed Barr as early as Oct. 26 that there were " sufficient specific and credible allegations " to extend his inquiry . |
3 | I want to get to Sion as soon as possible . ’ |
4 | Powerful , calloused , sunburnt , they could have twisted the white swan neck of Lady Eleanor as easily as a twig . |
5 | He decided to get shut of Eleanor as quickly as possible . |
6 | An unendowed school is recorded at Low Catton as early as 1734 . |
7 | Reportedly there are continuing internal struggles between Sun 's hardware unit — which wants the new NFS as soon as possible for its next generation multi-processing servers — and SunSoft , which has already promised multi-threading for NFS , but wants the new features to be part of Solaris 2.1 or higher , and 2.1 is n't expected until mid-1993 . |
8 | ‘ First , Hopkins was a monk , a Benedictine from Glastonbury but he also served as a chaplain for the Santerres here at Templecombe as well as for the outlying farms . |
9 | My right hon. Friend can not write off the WEU as simply and as simplistically as he did . |
10 | The Ministry of Defence 's legal department therefore has a powerful incentive to abolish commoners ' rights at Greenham as quickly and comprehensively as possible . |
11 | And there has been some encouragement from within industry , reflected , for example in Business in the Community ( BiC ) , founded in 1982 and sponsored by firms such as IBM and Marks and Spencer as well as supported by the DoE and the Manpower Services Commission ( later the Training Commission , itself absorbed by the Department of Employment in 1988 ) . |
12 | Their interest in Celtic lands and civilization became apparent only in the fourth century B.C. , though they had founded the important colony of Marseilles as early as the end of the seventh century . |
13 | And then , without caring what the headmaster might think , he ran after Maisie as fast as he could . |
14 | The international community faced growing calls for military intervention in Bosnia-Hercegovina as more Bosnian towns came under attack , with the Moslem element of the republic 's population under increasing pressure and Serbian forces apparently seeking to link the " Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina " ( SRBH ) to Serbia proper . |
15 | However , I am writing to Alan Harlow to state our disappointment ; to point out that we can not continue to pay subscriptions if the grant is not increased ; that we are doing our best to find sponsorship ( I 've written , on my own initiative , to 3 companies who might be willing to help , on environmental grounds ) ; that sponsorship from SNH is pretty unlikely , a ) because they do n't do any core funding , and b ) because the NCC element appears to be dominant there anyway ; that sponsorship from the Sports Council is also unlikely , though we are seeking a meeting with Terry Dowey of SSA as soon as possible . |
16 | The more southerly route lay across a gap in the Urals to the Irtysh and thence , after the Tatar khanate had been defeated , up the middle Ob and its tributaries , such as the Ket , to where a portage led to the middle reaches of the Yenisei ; from here they ascended the Upper ( or ‘ Stony ’ ) Tunguska as far as the Ilim , and so either by portage to the Lena or up the Angara towards Lake Baikal . |
17 | Deforestation , whether to clear the ground for pasture or to produce timber and fuel , was a worry in these parts of the Pyrenees as long ago as the seventeenth century , when the prescient minister Colbert sent an eminent forester from Paris to report on the local resources in wood ; but it is only quite recently that felling and replanting have been properly controlled . |
18 | During that summer I hitch-hiked to Regina as often as possible on weekends to visit Wilf Scott or Peter Friedgut . |
19 | The former , a native of China , was introduced to Britain from Japan via the United States in 1754 ; the latter , also from China , via the United States as recently as 1948 . |
20 | But he was an American citizen , born in the States as far as I can make out . ’ |
21 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council attention was drawn to the overgrown state of the footway on Station Lane Scorton on the section from the entrance to Brook Avenue as far as the railway bridge . |
22 | Further to my letter of 23rd May and our telephone conversation yesterday it now seems that most of the verges and hedge-bottoms in the Scorton area have been trimmed EXCEPT for the section of Station Lane from opposite Brook Avenue as far as the railway bridge . |
23 | With growing princely income and expenditure , the charge of the purse became more responsible ; chamberlains appeared everywhere — in Flanders as early as the tenth century — to control it . |
24 | There is a narrow road from the coast along the north side of Loch Morar as far as the little settlement of Bracorina and , from here , an easy climb to the crest of the ridge behind reveals a superlative view of Loch Nevis and Loch Morar , which are now little more than a mile apart . |
25 | Seizing his opportunity immediately , Mr Chan grabbed at it and Ray Shepherd was soon wrestling with Mr Chan as well as with the wheel . |
26 | American and Russian armed forces would have to be withdrawn from Korea as soon as possible and within three months of a Korean government being formed . |
27 | John Foster Dulles , a leading Republican spokesman on foreign affairs , was a member of the American delegation to the UN , and the State Department intended that Dulles should speak in conciliatory vein in the hope that the Soviet Union would accept the establishment of a temporary commission ; the Truman administration was embarrassed but wished to advance non-communist prospects in Korea as far as was possible . |
28 | We have to go to St Denis , find Selkirk 's secret and return to England as soon as possible . ’ |
29 | In November 1913 he accompanied his family on their way to England as far as the railhead , which had now reached the Awash river , and then returned to Addis Ababa . |
30 | The use of copper as a protection for the underwater parts of ships ' hulls had been suggested in England as early as 1708 and by the 1770s it had been generally adopted throughout the navy . |