Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snow may linger on the high passes as late as June . |
| 2 | Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . |
| 3 | What she says and what she does are two different things as far as children go . |
| 4 | It was a centre for trade going to Salisbury , the main distribution point for the Wiltshire woollen industry , and sent some goods as far as Coventry , which was famous for its woad-dyed blue cloths . |
| 5 | The new right , referred to hereinafter as the " semiconductor design right " , draws heavily from Part III of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 which deals with the unregistered design right but with some differences as far as semiconductor topographies are concerned ( see Chapter 9 for a general description of the design right ) . |
| 6 | Dippers begin to sing and to stake out their linear territories as early as November ; to display and pair in January ; and to lay the first of two — or three — clutches of eggs before the end of March . |
| 7 | His smile was grim , his dark eyes as hard as ebony in the granite lines of his face . |
| 8 | The aim is to develop new statistical methods which will predict the behaviour of future subjects as accurately as possible . |
| 9 | With regard to marriage , eighteenth century canon law , which recognized marriage based on verbal contract , found itself in conflict with common law , which denied the validity of such marriages as far as property was concerned . |
| 10 | Although the amount of his fine was fixed at 2,000 marks as early as October 1292 , he remained in prison in the Tower and later in Winchester Castle till 1294 , when his release was obtained in return for a promise by Henry and his sureties to pay the fine off at the rate of 300 marks a year . |
| 11 | I must have heard the Brahms C major Sonata countless times , yet I can not recall having ever encountered a reading which balances the young composer 's variegated , emotionally charged adolescent outpourings as unerringly as Richter does here . |
| 12 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |
| 13 | erm women were being prescribed tranquillizers about three times as often as men and in fact , women go to see the G P three times as often as men . |
| 14 | What is the status of these areas as far as planning goes ? |
| 15 | Not only can it homogenize these communities as insensitively as assimilationism or multiculturalism . |
| 16 | What are your worst memories as far as conflict is concerned ? |
| 17 | He half wondered if she 'd arranged it ; women do n't get invited to these things as often as men . |
| 18 | According to Motorola UK 's 68000 marketing manager , Neil Martin , the firm will ship 100,000 to 200,000 samples as early as July , with a suggested price tag of around $500 for the 50MHz part . |
| 19 | Your present vehicle will fall into one of three categories as far as petrol is concerned . |
| 20 | Erm we asked the question about the aircraft 's reduced operational capabilities as far as Britain is concerned , we were told that there was no reduction , erm there was no percentage figure that could be produced but w now what about the other countries , I mean , which countries are asking for what to be omitted and by how much is the percentage , in percentage terms er is the performance of the aircraft reduced in those cases and further on from that , picking up something that that Wing Com er Group Captain Granville White has just mentioned which i is the question of sales . |
| 21 | The line still represents a real challenge to footplate crews and one of the major attractions as far as enthusiasts are concerned is to hear the engines working under pressure on the slopes of the Rheidol Valley . |
| 22 | Electrical stimulation has either positive or negative effects as far as speech is concerned . |
| 23 | The effect of Dr McNab 's arguments was by no means as overwhelming as might be supposed ; with the best will in the world and in ideal circumstances it is next to impossible to escape cerebral indigestion as someone quotes comparative figures as fluently as Dr McNab had just been doing . |
| 24 | After his death the standard was taken up by Serov , who still commanded 3,000 men as late as January 1922 . |
| 25 | Communication : Publicise the company 's ‘ people principles ’ more widely ; extend the appraisal process to all employees as quickly as training will allow ; make attitude surveys an annual feature from 1994 ; build human resources into every business 's strategic plan . |
| 26 | We 've got poor facilities medically ; we 've got poor facilities as far as shopping is concerned ; no telephone , no place to post your letters . |
| 27 | Admiral Croft , for instance , uses ‘ we ’ and its cases more than ten times as frequently as Lady Catherine de Burgh . |
| 28 | Both biological and cultural explanations , however , have sceptical implications as far as morality is concerned . |
| 29 | Applied to the artists showing at Brussels , the term could have no very definite meaning , and Apollinaire found it hard to identify many specific characteristics shared by the painters , or even to distinguish Cubism from Fauvism : ‘ One feature unites them , for if the principal merit of the painters who have been called the Fauves was the return to fundamental principles as far as colour and composition are concerned , the Cubists , in order to extend yet further the province of an art thus renewed , have sought to return to basic principles of drawing and inspiration . |
| 30 | They would be quite happy to forget all those things so long as Fedorov obliged them by carrying out certain routine tasks from time to time . |