Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun prp] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He warned that if Slovenia went ahead with secession , EC support would be withdrawn — leading to the total economic collapse of Yugoslavia as early as September . |
| 2 | Watching it takes you into the mind of Ramanujan as surely as a long look into his eyes . |
| 3 | So we get Joseph Wright of Derby as early as 1780 painting Arkwright 's cotton mill by night — tiers of tiny yellow lights in the immemorial country darkness of the Derwent valley , the isolated forerunner of those tremendous galaxies of light that one now sees from the Pennine Moors after sundown . |
| 4 | Pulled between a trusting wife and a beautiful young lover , David Parkin had decided to delay an unpleasant confrontation with Nicola as long as possible . |
| 5 | Journalist of the Year is Maggie O'Kane of The Guardian for her reporting from Bosnia as well as for dispatches from Dublin . |
| 6 | Although Betsy and her two younger sisters were reared in one of the better-off families of Saltcoats , she had a love of the sea and ships and from the age of 15 had gone on trips on Clytus as often as her parents allowed . |
| 7 | As part of the whole , they are expected to enable all who are present to make their offering to God as fully and as well as they can , in addition to making their own contribution for him . |
| 8 | Those applicants wishing to make use of this agreement , details of which should be available from their current institutions , should contact the appropriate Faculty at the University of Edinburgh as early as possible . |
| 9 | His name is first found in the watermark of a postage stamp for Barbados as early as 1840 . |
| 10 | We need a UN relief plan for Somalia as soon as possible . |
| 11 | There are references to such ‘ gonnes ’ in accounts of the siege of Berwick as early as 1333 , while it is likely that some form of artillery was brought across the sea by the English for the long siege of Calais of 1346–7 . |
| 12 | Deposits of comparable material which extend from the Ukraine westwards along the foot of the Hercynian uplands of Europe as far as the chalk plateaus of Artois and Picardy , were most likely derived by deflation from the glacial deposits of the North European Plain during the Pleistocene period . |
| 13 | There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 . |
| 14 | Indeed , given a campaign by Wulfhere as far as the coast , it is difficult to see how the whole extent of the northern territory of the western Saxons from Berkshire to Somerset could have escaped Mercian pressure in these years , creating perhaps precedents for further Mercian involvement in these districts at a later time . |
| 15 | This is one of the claimed benefits for Apple 's System 7.0 but Adobe have also promised to deliver ATM for OS/2 as soon as possible . |
| 16 | This is not the earliest example in the county , for silk weaving took place in Gloucester as early as 1637 . |
| 17 | The US Vice-President , Dan Quayle , visited Panama on Jan. 27-28 , 1990 , and declared that the USA wanted to withdraw its troops from Panama as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | Recipients of the Profile who do not wish to pursue the acquisition are asked to return the Profile to KPMG as soon as possible . |
| 19 | It is also vital that any incident or accident involving the emergency services ( police , fire or ambulance ) is notified to Peter Bateman at Felcourt as soon as possible so that he is briefed to dal with consequent media enquiries . |
| 20 | But the Chinese Muslims are spread throughout the country , from Xinjiang in the north-west right along the Great Wall of China as far as Peking and dotted throughout Ningxia province , including such key cities as Xian , home of the famous terracotta army , where the Chinese-style pavilions of the Great Mosque have been a place of worship for Muslims since the eighth century . |
| 21 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 22 | Sir Hugh Hastings of Fenwick seems to have been primarily Northumberland 's man , but his land in south Yorkshire had brought him into contact with Gloucester as early as 1471 , when the duke made him his deputy steward of Snaith , and to judge by his choice of feoffees Hastings maintained links with the duke 's circle . |
| 23 | Sir Hugh Hastings of Fenwick seems to have been primarily Northumberland 's man , but his land in south Yorkshire had brought him into contact with Gloucester as early as 1471 , when the duke made him his deputy steward of Snaith , and to judge by his choice of feoffees Hastings maintained links with the duke 's circle . |
| 24 | The Ministry of Defence 's legal department therefore has a powerful incentive to abolish commoners ' rights at Greenham as quickly and comprehensively as possible . |
| 25 | Send details to Observations at SCRE as soon as possible for Observations Number 4 , Autumn 1993 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | On Feb. 6 Iraq announced the breaking-off of diplomatic relations with France as well as with the USA , the UK , Italy , Saudi Arabia and Egypt . |
| 28 | I thi I think they 're , the the NALGO COHSE and NUPE health branches are making their own arrangements in Northumberland as far as I know . |
| 29 | Rivers , by all accounts no fool , apparently still expected co-operation from Gloucester as late as the end of April . |
| 30 | Rivers , by all accounts no fool , apparently still expected co-operation from Gloucester as late as the end of April . |