Example sentences of "at [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drama began at 5.15am as the day shift was going on duty at the mine one of the 31 earmarked for closure . |
| 2 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 3 | ‘ Many of these proposals have been looked at together as being inter-related . |
| 4 | Journalists who reported to Gaza Barracks at 7.15am as instructed were told they would not be allowed to witness the exercise , which involved 24 Airmobile Brigade , North Yorkshire Police , fire and ambulance services , the county emergency planning department and ‘ casualties ’ from Longlands College , Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | The attack took place about two miles beyond Johannesburg 's southern suburbs at 7.30am as commuters were streaming to work and mothers were delivering children to school . |
| 6 | Deprived of her royal privileges , Fergie , — with Beatrice , four , and Eugenie , two — was just another face in the crowd at 6am as she greeted Jane Makim , who is spending Christmas with her . |
| 7 | One is faced here with the blind spot of the dominant form of Irish nationalism , already so apparent in the preamble to the constitution itself , a blindness made possible by the ideological differentiation of state and religion combined with the ideological unity of the people , seen at once as both nation and catholic . |
| 8 | Such reminiscence of childhood presented at once as reality and illusion came frequently to Eliot around the time of his conversion . |
| 9 | Top : Escort and Orion line-up — not all came at once as Ford promised . |
| 10 | The examination papers written in Victoria 's large , even script were considered adequate ; her interview was unexceptional , although the examiners at Girton College recognised her at once as she had been universally described by all who knew her : an extremely pleasant girl of excellent character . |
| 11 | All subservient reaction was forgotten at once as Nessie yielded to more primitive instincts and rushed to the car to see her youngest son . |
| 12 | ‘ Could Ernie go home at once as Youngs was on fire . ’ |
| 13 | The sense of belonging may inspire tears of joy or of repentance , or both at once as we continue in this intimate engagement , remembering : |
| 14 | The rest made Malta where on landing one aircraft 's engine stopped at once as all its fuel had gone . |
| 15 | Ironically , he was to be hanged for broadcasts most of which were known at once as comically improbable in their boasts of German victory . |
| 16 | Reviewers even posture at once as barrister and judge : |
| 17 | I 'm trying to do eight things at once as usual . |
| 18 | And there was plenty to admire , she realised at once as her gaze travelled over the Regency bureau , the Chippendale cabinet , the Aubusson rug . |
| 19 | Agrippa demanded at once as Catesby bolted the door behind us and scrutinised the long , low-ceilinged chamber as if eavesdroppers lurked in its very shadows . |
| 20 | In a dream , she saw him skid to a halt , taking in the scene at once as it must have appeared — his brother bending over his fiancée — and , thought Sarella in dismay , taking in my submissive expression as I stupidly allow this dark monster to maul me . |
| 21 | Well that 's what you hinted at yesterday as well did n't it ? |
| 22 | The theft of the mountain bicycle happened at 5pm as the student was cycling along Princes Avenue in Toxteth . |
| 23 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 24 | Last Christmas , having loads of time on my hands over the holidays , I decided to take the plunge and make one at least as nice theirs . |
| 25 | And the issue is not simply that of deteriorating staff-student ratios , which has attracted so much attention , but at least as much a question of capital investment . |
| 26 | The pressure for an increase in wage levels , at least as agreed at the local branch or shop-floor , steadily mounted , and in the 1977–8 pay round settlements averaged over 1 5 per cent . |
| 27 | The terrorist is normally a person who , as such , risks death either by his own weapons or in the commission of his act , and is at least as likely to court what he might regard as a martyr 's or patriot 's death as to be deterred by it . |
| 28 | It is quite true that the Americans were at least as worried about the British as the British were about them , but for very different reasons . |
| 29 | Sir Anthony says : ‘ The Department were at fault in failing to appreciate that the instructions given to Spicers to carry out an audit of the partnership 's client accounts would not , at least as regards some important Barlow Clowes portfolios , have enabled any reassurance to be gained on the score of the concern that the partnership could not make the payments of income they had guaranteed without eroding clients ’ capital . |
| 30 | Sir Christopher Wren sits behind his desk , large as life and at least as natural , until a cloth is draped over the leather bound book concealing the projector , and his head is revealed as a white splodge which takes 80 hours of modelling . |