Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immersion heaters can be fitted instead of or as well as a boiler to heat the water . |
| 2 | The Home Office Code under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 [ PACE ] requires that as soon as a suspect arrives at a police station , they should be told by the custody officer of their right to independent , free legal advice . |
| 3 | They believed that as soon as a person died their spirit attached itself to the family left behind . |
| 4 | We now are setting into motion a new system , whereby the PAs to the Head of Groups/Sectors keep copies of the Christian Aid self-certificate form and should ensure that as soon as a member of staff returns from their sick leave they fill it in . |
| 5 | It was verbally agreed between them that as well as a salary she should have 15 per cent of the company to Virgin 's 85 . |
| 6 | It is clear now that as well as a strain on the nerves , the nine are physically very demanding . |
| 7 | You are kept constantly informed of progress and as soon as a purchaser has been introduced we will negotiate to obtain the best price . |
| 8 | But as soon as a company takes the first tentative steps from data to information , its decision processes , management structure , and even the way its work gets done begin to be transformed . |
| 9 | This peculiar quality of solid , clenched abstraction appears in phrase after phrase — " compactness " dwells within the " " compression " " of Horatian metres ; but as soon as a translator attempts to transpose him into English quatrains , things go askew and adrift , because every compression is paid for with an expansion . |
| 10 | No , but as soon as a woman comes in I always say ah language lads ladies present . |
| 11 | She said that existing vicars would keep their right to stay in their parish until they were 65 but as soon as a parish became vacant the priest-in-charge system would be introduced . |
| 12 | The formation of new lobes is only one part of the story , for as soon as a distributary abandons a lobe , which is thus deprived of its sediment supply , marine erosion can set in . |
| 13 | For as soon as a news organization is established within a competitive economic system , it has to exercise choices about what sort of medium it is , what it does and for whom it does it . |