Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Boys in his Agriculture of the County of Kent 1794 , tells us that hop poles are the chief article which make woods valuable in this part of the country , there being not only local demand but the poles are carried as far as Maidstone and beyond , the planters preferring the poles grown on the hills to those of quicker growth . |
| 2 | The stone had been raised high just as Wexford was raising it now but brought down that time on the back of Hatton 's skull . |
| 3 | No sooner had the Colonel stumped out , his face flushed with a moral indignation that might or might not be sustained as far as Eaton Square and the Foreign Secretary 's residence , than the telephone rang . |
| 4 | The South India Railway was to be built as far as Ramaswaram and then connected to Ceylon by embankments and bridges . |
| 5 | The first beginnings of this process can be discerned as early as Irenaeus , c. 180 . |
| 6 | Although the laws will doubtless be tightened , no cure for the current state of financial laxity will be found so long as Yugoslavia has a ‘ soft budget ’ approach to monetary policy , and persists in its attempts to combine self-management with the doctrine of ‘ social ownership ’ . |
| 7 | This ‘ ontological imperialism ’ , Levinas argues , goes back at least to Socrates but can be found as recently as Heidegger . |
| 8 | They said the appointment could be announced as early as Monday . |
| 9 | He also had to keep secrets , for he knew the real shape of things : " I am surprised the ladies have not found out a way to employ women stay-makers rather than trust our sex with what should be kept as inviolably as Free-Masonry . " |
| 10 | Isolated ApT steps show very little cleavage while blocks of three or more contiguous ATs are cut as efficiently as GpT . |
| 11 | The threat led to the resignation on March 4 of the head of the Special Force for the Fight against Drug Traffickers ( FELCN ) , Col. Faustino Rico Toro ( who had been appointed as recently as Feb. 26 ) , and was followed by that of the Interior Minister , Capobianco Ribera , after accusations in the US press of his association with drug trafficking [ see p. 38094-95 ] . |
| 12 | As for the dormeuse , it would seem to have been taken as far as Quatre Bras ; and there , according to his fellow officers von Oetlinger and von Humbracht , von Keller determined to open the necessaire that he had found in the carriage , believing it to be full of gold . |
| 13 | Other Coalition Liberals were disliked as warmly as Lloyd George , more for their present policies than for their past . |
| 14 | Despite the Geneva conference requirement that heavy weapons in the area be placed under UN supervision from Sept. 12 [ see above ] , renewed artillery attacks were reported as early as Sept. 14 in Sarajevo ( which was suffering severe water and electricity shortages as supply lines were interrupted ) . |
| 15 | at the start of the second half the Hereford defence were caught out again as Scott put Wycombe back into the lead … |
| 16 | at the start of the second half the Hereford defence were caught out again as Scott put Wycombe back into the lead … |
| 17 | I had to escape to the nearby wilderness of mountain and ice , to live out my days among chamois and eagle , which were being hunted as avidly as I. |
| 18 | By the end of the second century AD marble veneer and sculptures from Greece and Asia Minor were shipped as far as London . |
| 19 | In fact his father-in-law had congratulated him on the perfectly splendid bit of crackling Hugh had in his arms in Chancery Lane , and naturally mum was the word , and his lips were sealed as far as Molly Coddle was concerned . |
| 20 | Carl Prean and Alan Cooke , who were beaten only once as England soared to promotion in the European League , suffered a shock defeat in the first round of the men 's doubles at the European Championships in Stuttgart last night . |
| 21 | The magnificent late twelfth-century font in the great church of San Frediano at Lucca shows Pharaoh drowning in the Red Sea ; and he and his troops are dressed up much as Frederick and his knights must have appeared to the Lucchese of the 1160s . |
| 22 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 23 | This prescriptive approach has been repeated as recently as October 1988 , when the director of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools in Northern Ireland said that people who sent their children to integrated schools rather than catholic ones were breaking the law of the church . |
| 24 | But you know that is a danger not just for those who are lost as far as God 's salvation is concerned , there is a danger there for you and I as Christians , of being smug , of being self-satisfied , I 'm alright ! |
| 25 | The situation is saved : HAMLET , escorted , is marched in just as CLAUDIUS leaves . |
| 26 | There is an ancient variant in the Lucan version of the Lord 's Prayer , which is attested as early as Marcion in the second century and reads , ‘ May thy Holy Spirit come upon us and cleanse us , ’ instead of , ‘ Thy kingdom come . ’ |
| 27 | I think this is clearly Miller 's main use for the character of Alfieri and he tries to make this more realistic by making Alfieri a lawyer though I do not think that this is done very well as Alfieri does not say anything which would justify him being a lawyer as all Eddie asks him are things he would have asked anyone though perhaps he asked him because he was a ‘ lawyer ’ and he respected this and knew he would get confidentiality . |
| 28 | And the NZRFU councillors who so quickly criticised South Africa must hope that none of the leading New Zealand players show positive on drug-testing — if and when that is introduced as thoroughly as New Zealand require from South Africa . |
| 29 | The device could 've been planted as early as Saturday morning and police want to speak to anyone who went there from that time , to when the alarm was raised yesterday . |
| 30 | Detectives said Mrs Page-Alucard may have been murdered as early as Friday morning , more than 24 hours before her body was discovered . |