Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] as [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snow may linger as late as mid-July . |
| 2 | Gentlemen may venture as far as the gun room , but the door at the end of the housekeeper 's corridor prevents an encounter with any but upper servants of their own sex . |
| 3 | The Prime Minister summoned the European Commission President to Downing Street where the two agreed that talks to try to avert a trade war with the United States must begin as soon as possible . |
| 4 | Third process teaching and learning styles should vary as widely as possible in order to provide maximum stimulation for both teachers and pupils and care should be taken to plan programmes with a long term rhythm of change or variety the element of chance and serendipity |
| 5 | It is keen that World Bank aid should arrive as soon as possible . |
| 6 | The SACHR said that affirmative action should go as far as positive discrimination , e.g. the tie break , but this is not in the legislation . |
| 7 | Not many heads would go as far as one who insists that male members of staff must wear their jackets in classrooms even on the warmest of days . |
| 8 | At a time when constitutional change and development at home and across the North Sea are much in the air , I am an unequivocal and enthusiastic backer of the idea that Scotland ought to seek as soon as possible to become a member state of the European Community . |
| 9 | After the election I am sure any enthusiasm he shows for this issue will disappear as quickly as he will . |
| 10 | Mr Duncan Biggin , architect for the scheme and chairman of Dockbuild , said it was hoped demolition could begin as early as March 16 and building would start as soon as possible . |
| 11 | But if Big Bang turns to crash and Poles lose their unPolish patience with the austerity plan , or if Solidarity can not contain its differences any longer , a fresh election could come as early as this autumn . |
| 12 | It is still often known as Norfolk reed ; and in contrast to ordinary straw thatch , which has a lifetime of thirty years at most , a well-laid thatch of Norfolk reed may last as long as eighty years . |
| 13 | Marketing manager Nigel Graham explained : ‘ We feel that we are a community chemist so business must continue as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | All this is evidence , if any were needed , that the allies must tiptoe as carefully as possible in this region of broken pride and prickly sensitivities . |
| 15 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
| 16 | In theory this process could go as far as equating marginal cost with demand so that the bureaucracy obtains all the consumer surplus . |
| 17 | If accepted , the appeal process could take as long as three years , according to reports . |
| 18 | The economists agree that reforms should happen as fast as they are technically possible , whether ordinary citizens want it that way or not . |
| 19 | No organisation could expand as quickly as the new organisation that is to be set up is apparently expected to expand to take on all this work . |
| 20 | Cynics are betting that the romance is a huge publicity stunt to help sell the firm : ‘ The relationship will last as long as they can use each other , ’ says one . |
| 21 | The quality and strength , allied to their beauty , mean that our chairs and tables will last as long as the old Lloyd Loom furniture now fetching high prices in antique shops . |
| 22 | The onset of puberty may occur as early as eleven or twelve and can not be reckoned as the sign of having reached adult status . |
| 23 | People must rely as far as possible on not being killed or used as a resource , and on having some space and objects and relations with other people they can count as their own … . |
| 24 | The manager should ascertain as early as possible the intentions of medical staff , particularly surgeons , with regard to the summer leave commitments . |
| 25 | Well so many other counties would like a a pt a a seat which is coterminous with them , I know Norfolk would , but the rule is that constituencies should have as far as possible , equal numbers of electors . |
| 26 | No one imagined that Mr Bush would intervene as abruptly as he did , or that Mr Kaifu would go off to Palm Springs without so much as a by-your-leave to the party barons . |
| 27 | While at the end of 1985 there were fears that the price of crude would drop as far as $15 , by the end of July 1986 a leading article in The Times reported that Brent crude stood at ‘ a paltry nine dollars a barrel ’ . |
| 28 | For several months the Hong Kong Sevens waited , hoping that the country 's two rugby bodies would unite as quickly as they had in some other sports — most notably cricket . |
| 29 | It is a bridge between Northern Ireland and the rest of the Community , and one which I hope business people will use as often as possible to help strengthen the Province 's economy . |
| 30 | This paint will run as far as it is allowed but will not bleed . |