Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when Bevin as British foreign secretary speedily found himself entangled in tough disputes with the USSR , this did not lead him to follow Churchill 's line that Britain had of necessity to work as closely as possible with the United States . |
| 2 | The burst of enthusiasm died as swiftly as it had kindled . |
| 3 | It may be necessary to restructure the business before it is acquired ; the tax liabilities involved need to be assessed , and the position of management protected as far as possible . |
| 4 | But he floated into the midst of a sea of water stretching as far as he could discern on every side around him . |
| 5 | The information is needed for the compilation of trade figures as well as for VAT calculations . |
| 6 | Facts were to do with the material conditions of life described as precisely as possible and counted as accurately as possible . |
| 7 | You can have been had by the whole of Fighter Command as far as I 'm concerned ; just as long as you add me to the list . ’ |
| 8 | Part of the three-year letter of intent went so far as to say — this is quite astonishing that for an initial period , which as far as I can recollect was never defined , British Rail should subsidise bus services because buses were being substituted for trains . |
| 9 | The rumblings of death appear as early as Mark 3:6 after the stories of conflict with the religious authorities . |
| 10 | His interview with Law went as badly as it is easily possible to imagine . |
| 11 | However , if you need to get onto port tack as soon as possible , then go behind any big group and tack into the ( probably ) larger gap to windward of them . |
| 12 | However , Lord Marshall 's letter says that because of the Government 's commitment to introduce competition into electricity supply as quickly as possible ‘ alternative arrangements for protecting the security of supply ’ would need to be made , involving a ‘ capacity deficiency scheme ’ . |
| 13 | This seasonal element in warfare persisted as late as the nineteenth century , but in the period of Charles it was often impossible to wage war in the winter , both because of the weather , and because of the basic necessity to harvest crops in autumn for survival of the people . |
| 14 | Levels of employment and unemployment and the easy or difficulty with which people find jobs can vary a great deal from place to place as well as from year to year , and so our tasks are always changing and developing — something you will notice and should n't be surprised by . |
| 15 | Selected papers will be published in a special edition of Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control , with all papers , together with discussion , to be published in book form as soon as possible . |
| 16 | Indeed , even honesty is a mere legal concept now , rather than a moral one , as they undertake to hide important information from us in order to borrow as cheaply as possible , while they lend at the highest practicable rate . |
| 17 | Production work — students should be encouraged to prioritise and to produce work within deadlines throughout , in order to mirror as closely as possible the conditions of the workplace . |
| 18 | If a bird is defending a territory in order to exploit as efficiently as possible the food resources on it , the bird should ensure that it defends a territory no larger than necessary . |
| 19 | Possession of even two out of the three characteristics made continued home care unlikely , but we shall confine our attention here to those who possessed all three in order to look as exclusively as possible at those for whom the Home Support Project 's service was crucial . |
| 20 | However , this must have been countered by an urgent request from Butcher as two days later Miller sent his servant with a note , agreeing to meet at Bedford House by four o'clock in order to get as far as St Albans that evening . |
| 21 | Having regard to the objectives and the general scheme of the Convention , that it is important that , in order to ensure as far as possible the equality and uniformity of the rights and obligations arising out of the Convention for the contracting states and the persons concerned , that concept should not be interpreted simply as referring to the national law of one or other of the states concerned . |
| 22 | Having regard to the objective and the general scheme of the Convention , it is important that , in order to ensure as far as possible the equality and uniformity of the rights and obligations arising out of the Convention for the contracting states and the persons concerned , that concept should not be interpreted simply as referring to the national law of one or other of the states concerned . |
| 23 | As the court held with respect to the expression ‘ matters relating to a contract ’ used in article 5(1) ( see the judgments of 22 March 1983 in Peters [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 , and of 8 March 1988 in Arcado [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 1539 ) , having regard to the objectives and general scheme of the Convention , it is important that , in order to ensure as far as possible the equality and uniformity of the rights and obligations arising out of the Convention of the contracting states and the persons concerned , that concept should not be interpreted simply as referring to the national law of one or other of the states concerned . |
| 24 | Thus , in France it seems that the general beneficiary of attempts by politicians or organs of the mainstream right to appear restrictionist on immigration has as often as not been the FN . |
| 25 | It was used for making vessels based on bronze forms as well as for ornaments . |
| 26 | Those that received pre-exposure and conditioning in the same context acquired the CR slowly ( i.e. showed latent inhibition ) ; those that experienced a change of context from exposure to conditioning learned as readily as the control subjects . |
| 27 | Since it is battery-powered , it can be used on location shoots as well as in the studio . |
| 28 | The deposit of a variety of jade amulets for ensuring good fortune and warding off ill-luck among Fu Hao 's grave goods shows that jade had already begun to be directed to individual needs as early as the Shang dynasty , at least for one at the peak of the social system . |