Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the 60s we watched incredulously as the HVS category bulged evermore lopsidedly as these great pioneers stuffed it with their goodies — Wombat , Carnage , Macabre , Vagabond , Sundance Wall — today as touch a collection of E points as you 'll find anywhere . |
| 2 | In this way men continue to have remarkably cheap servants and capitalist industry and the state to have the labour force reproduced as cheaply as possible . |
| 3 | Considering that closure for Deepcar station came as early as 1959 , the lavatory sign has done well to survive . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend is correct — it must make sense to have pay bargaining as near as possible to the point and location of work so as to make the labour market work as efficiently as possible and to reward people as fairly as possible . |
| 5 | According to the mid-year estimates the ‘ remoter , largely rural districts ’ experienced their highest rates of net immigration between 1971 and 1974 , while at the other end of the national urban hierarchy London 's rate of net migration loss peaked as early as 1970/71 ( Champion , 1981b ; Britton , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | The through service to London was interrupted on 10 and 11 September 1940 , by bomb damage outside Croydon , and a shuttle service was provided by Thornton Heath depôt running as far as Norbury Station . |
| 7 | Drawn from stock and private sources , including the artist 's family , it comprises landscapes , nudes and flower pictures , and features both a view of a village church painted as early as 1924 and the final picture completed by Hitchens shortly before his death in 1979 . |
| 8 | ( Part of the reason for this , other than the high initial cost of the hardware , is that film recorders take quite an appreciable time to image the slide whereas a rostrum camera works as fast as the operator can change the artwork . ) |
| 9 | The Home Office said aS far as young offenders were concerned … the aim was to find constructive altermnatives to custody … |
| 10 | Fowler inaugurated the introduction of line production in locomotive repairs , greatly reducing time spent in workshops , and a firm standardization programme to reduce as rapidly as possible the 393 individual locomotive types inherited by the LMS . |
| 11 | The agenda of a National Security Council meeting as early as 10 March 1959 included as a main item the possibility of bringing ‘ another government to power in Cuba ’ ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 384 ) . |
| 12 | All hell broke loose , Mount Stewart was besieged by the media , and one Fleet Street paper went as far as accusing MacDonald of duplicity . |
| 13 | The result of the meeting was an agreement that Mr Asquith should consider the proposals made to him , and let Mr Bonar Law know as soon as possible whether he would join the Government under him . |
| 14 | After the 1987 hurricane , the Tree Council went as far as to say that ‘ unless positive encouragement is given to owners to restore these woods … they will revert to scrub and never recover . ’ |
| 15 | If you experience any problems in meeting this timetable , please let Suzanne Pinnington on ( extension number 227 ) in the Education Service know as soon as possible . |
| 16 | We are in close liaison with the examinations board and both committees are working in harmony to make sure , the module system runs as smoothly as possible at this time . |
| 17 | The Education Officer of Matagalpa Prison went as far as to say that when systems of exploitation can be brought to an end , crime as a major social phenomenon will disappear . |
| 18 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 19 | In the case of a severe burn , that is one that is larger than an inch in diameter , the rule is the same : cool first , cover later , and in this instance start to cool as quickly as possible to prevent the burn spreading into the surrounding tissue . |
| 20 | Desmond Heap , in his 1955 presidential address to the ( then ) Town Planning Institute went so far as to declare that the preservation of Green belts was ‘ the very raison d'etre of town and country planning ’ . |
| 21 | The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned . |
| 22 | While the process of evolving an all-new and unique Bentley coupe began as early as 1984 with the commissioning of design studies and quarter-scale models , work did not begin in earnest until 1986 when experience from the Turbo R and other developments was available . |
| 23 | The last time a defending champion lost as early as the second round of the US Open was in 1989 when Mats Wilander was picked off by a young Pete Sampras . |
| 24 | The sales patter flowed as freely as the corporate wine , but how well was it going down with potential investors … |
| 25 | Also , at this time doors and windows can be left open which will allow the solvent and odour of the woodworm fluid to escape as rapidly as possible . |
| 26 | The couple had lived for many years on a narrow pedestrian street known quite simply as ‘ Behind the Hill ’ ( later Paul Street ) , a useful little short-cut between Palmer Street and Catherine Hill . |
| 27 | But the Bratianu family abided as often as not by the principles of its imported Western liberalism as its inherited clannishness . |
| 28 | The white-washed walls of the lift shaft moved smoothly downwards as the lift ascended . |
| 29 | The Colourcode play funk as hard as the Red Hot Chili Peppers , but with the feel that the Chilis so obviously lack on their heavy-handed interpretation of Stevie Wonder 's ‘ Higher Ground ’ . |
| 30 | The Colourcode play funk as hard as the Red Hot Chili Peppers , but with the feel that the Chilis so obviously lack on their heavy-handed interpretation of Stevie Wonder 's ‘ Higher Ground ’ . |