Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] In comparative terms , however , they testify to a poor record , the cumulative effect of which was a decline in Britain 's international economic status to a level undreamt of even as late as 1955 [ Kravis , 1976 ; Stout , 1979 ] . |
| 2 | She had to get out of here as soon as possible . |
| 3 | As I approached , one of them spoke with weary resignation : ‘ Would you please get this vehicle out of here as quickly as possible , sir ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I want them in and out of here as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | in Z. Otherwise such pedantry relating to Z was left behind as long ago as 1.2.5 . |
| 6 | What about as far round as that high , nothing as far round here ? |
| 7 | In particular , Chandra Talpade Mohanty 's essay seems odd , devoted as it is to a detailed comparison of essays from as long ago as 1981 and 1984 , in which she takes issue with Robin Morgan 's universalist feminism . |
| 8 | But , again , we must beware the limits of anecdotal evidence ; several of Ryder 's examples are from the 1930s and 1940s ( and one from as long ago as 1909 ) and would breach today 's legal standards . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of people came to see it , some from as far away as upper Teesdale and Cleveland , ’ said Mr Pilkington . |
| 10 | Training Days — taken by Hilary Weedon and Ann Langford — have been well attended , some enthusiastic participants travelling from as far away as 60 miles . |
| 11 | The two-banded plover is a resident species , but the white-rumped sandpiper is a non-breeding visitor from as far away as Arctic Canada . |
| 12 | From as far back as late 1868 items in his notebooks show this happening . |
| 13 | Sure , the Soviet Union wanted to shove pins into its rival from as close up as possible . |
| 14 | We ought to get him away from here as soon as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ Come on , Piper , do n't stand there dozing , let's get away from here as quickly as possible ! ’ |
| 16 | Animals have been anthropomorphised since as long ago as Egyptian times . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , Piper , he wants you to get yourself , and your bagpipes , over there as soon as possible and play him a tune . |
| 18 | In principle , the government might do this at least as effectively as private markets . |
| 19 | Long before that — at least as early as 1775 — the courts had laid down the general principle of law that a person can not bring an action based on his own wrong ( ex turpi causa non oritur actio ) . |
| 20 | The usefulness of having voice-parts in score , so that they could be played on a keyboard instrument ( as distinct from the highly embellished transcriptions ) or used ‘ for the study of counterpoint ’ , had been recognized at least as early as 1577 , when Gardano published two such volumes , one of Rore 's four-part madrigals , the other of miscellaneous pieces . |
| 21 | There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter . |
| 22 | This was John Redford , vicar-choral and master of the choristers of St. Paul 's Cathedral from at least as early as 1534 ( when he signed the loyal declaration denying papal authority over the Church in England ) till his death in 1547 , playwright and poet . |
| 23 | From this point , the position has become confused , at least as far as external observers are concerned . |
| 24 | Although it appears that you did not make a large sum of money out of your dealing — at least as far as external appearances are concerned — I have to take a serious view of it . ’ |
| 25 | The latter extended at least as far as 1022 , and maybe to 1028 , when all record Cnut 's journey to Norway in similar words , or even to 1030 or 1034 , which give the deaths of King Olaf of Norway and Bishop Æthelric of Dorchester . |
| 26 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |
| 27 | The shareholders , in contrast , at least as far as large and sophisticated investors are concerned , have no interest in increased diversification within the firm , since they will already have spread the risk associated with investment in a particular company or industry by holding a diversified portfolio . |
| 28 | My principal concern here , however , is to observe that the phenomenon of the fired word-pair is a contra-indication of the parallelism of greater precision — at least as far as those words are concerned . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it might be argued that the problem of particular identity , at least as far as perceptual things are concerned , presents no insoluble problems . |
| 30 | The condition of the books in my list suggests that Vaisey is right and that , at least as far as English printed books are concerned , the justification of dispersal for reasons of ‘ preservation ’ is to be discounted . |