Example sentences of "[adv] late as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE NATURAL CLIMAX vegetation of Southern Britain is deciduous woodland , and as late as 731 A.D. the Venerable Bede described the Wealden Forest as being ‘ thick and impenetrable ’ . |
| 2 | The treatment of the principles of interpretation ( DV 12 ) reaffirms the teaching of Pius XII 's encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu ( 1943 ) — very necessarily , since it was still being attacked , even by an Italian cardinal , as late as 1961 ( XR 1 , pp. 54–5 ) . |
| 3 | I still recall ‘ 'umping me ‘ ammock ‘ n kitbag ’ as late as 1961 , all the way from Pompey to Rosyth , where I joined a minesweeper on which such sleeping gear was passe . |
| 4 | All this had a debilitating effect upon ecclesiastical morale and discipline , for not only were the king 's servants who enforced his claims upon church property and privileges thus protected , but they were also exempted from necessary reforms : as late as 1303 , precisely on the question of pluralism , the bishop of Worcester and his advisers declined to take action against the multiple pluralist , Ralph Hengham , because he was a royal judge and a member of the king 's council . |
| 5 | As late as 1679 , Lutheran orthodoxy in Sweden could still be obstructive . |
| 6 | By this time diamonds were well-known to western Europe , and were worn as jewels , but even so it was not until as late as 1796 that the chemical nature of diamond was finally established . |
| 7 | As late as 1931 , the war records of Labour candidates were still held against them , although by then Ramsay MacDonald , like Lloyd George before him , had been forgiven his sins . |
| 8 | As late as 1931 the inhabitants of Polesia , when asked by the Polish census officials about their nationality , quite failed to understand the question . |
| 9 | Only within the Parliamentary Labour Party was there an attempt at collective discipline and that was so loose that the Independent Labour Party was to maintain its right to direct its own members within the PLP as late as 1931 . |
| 10 | As late as 13 October the Shoan leaders continued to believe that Negus Mikael was still at Dessie . |
| 11 | If the oboe band was a viable theatrical ensemble as late as 1688 , then it must have been even more so in the 1660s , when the orchestra as we conceive of it was merely starting to come into being . |
| 12 | However , as late as 1979 a Soviet researcher wrote that no system existed for checking and analysing technical and economic information relating to product quality , and that ‘ present methods of assessing the quality of goods manufactured for export or already delivered to the foreign consumer can not provide an adequate view of how well they are produced ’ ( Gruzinov : 1979 , p. 191 ) . |
| 13 | Yet of those lines only 10 actually crossed the border into Russian Poland , and even as late as 1918 there was no direct railway link between Poznán and Warsaw . |
| 14 | Only as late as 1918 was it established — by a woman doctor — that the juice of lemons is more than twice as rich in anti-scorbutic vitamins as that of the lime , for long thought to be as or more effective than lemon juice in the prevention of scurvy . |
| 15 | As late as 5 June , the candidates for knighthood at the impending coronation included a number of Hastings ' men and that this was in response to Hastings ' own wishes is suggested by the fact that most were not subsequently knighted at Richard 's coronation . |
| 16 | As late as 5 June , the candidates for knighthood at the impending coronation included a number of Hastings ' men and that this was in response to Hastings ' own wishes is suggested by the fact that most were not subsequently knighted at Richard 's coronation . |
| 17 | As late as 1891 Engels ' major work on the state still described universal suffrage as merely ‘ the gauge of the maturity of the working class . |
| 18 | Birmingham was quite independent of the party and as late as 1929 was not afraid to show its independence : in that year Neville Chamberlain complained bitterly when he discovered that the Party Chairman had written to businesses in Birmingham for contributions to party funds , for this was regarded as poaching from local preserves . |
| 19 | This was clearly expressed as late as 1913 by the Reverend Edward Lyttleton , headmaster of Eton : |
| 20 | As late as 1913 , the anti-feminist surgeon , Sir Almroth Wright , continued to applaud what was undoubtedly an extreme form of the traditional patriarchal marriage , whereby the husband promised to do his wife reverence , to protect and to serve her as long as she did not jettison personal refinement , act in an ungrateful manner or put an extravagantly high estimate on her intellectual powers . |
| 21 | As late as 1937 there were no fewer than six breaks of gauge between Sydney and Perth . |
| 22 | There is mention of a miller as late as 1937 , and evidence that the mill was in use for several years after that date . |
| 23 | As late as 1937 only 10 per cent of women were attending post-natal clinics , whereas 54 per cent received ante-natal care . |
| 24 | Hindu teachings allow abortion only where a pregnancy constitutes a danger to the mother 's life , Islamic law allows abortion up to as late as 120 days and under Jewish law the foetus is regarded as a subsidiary of the mother and abortion is permitted as long as a number of doctors recommend it . |
| 25 | Even as late as 1956 a considerable earthquake destroyed half the buildings on the west coast of the island . |
| 26 | As late as 1956 a team of investigators described the plight of a woman in a mining village whose husband refused to use a sheath and who , because she had no bathroom could not use a cap . |
| 27 | As late as 804 the northernmost Saxon tribes revolted once more , and on this occasion Charles resorted to deportation as a cure . |
| 28 | As late as 1858 Murray 's Guide described Marienbad as ‘ comparatively recent ’ and noted that Gastein had only two hundred guest-rooms . |
| 29 | and as late as 1746 it was revised by the pharmaceutical chemist , William Lewis [ q.v. ] , |
| 30 | " Points of honour , rank , precedence , are the most delicate articles of political faith " , wrote a well-informed commentator as late as 1746 . |