Example sentences of "as [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ in a street ( or public place ) called … ‘ 'Street ’ is defined at section 1(4) Street Offences Act 1959 as any bridge , road , lane , footway , subway , square , court , alley or passage , whether a thoroughfare or not , which is for the time being open to the public , and the doorways and entrances of premises abutting on a street ( as herein before defined ) and any ground adjoining and open to a street , shall form part of the street . |
| 2 | The Color Purple does not portray this same view as widely as The Outsiders , mainly because Celie is coloured and in the era that the book was set — 1920 's , racism was very strong and coloured people had no rights at all . |
| 3 | Very soon , soccer grounds became ‘ advertised ’ as somewhere where a good fight was guaranteed , hence their appeal to the ‘ rough ’ sections of society . |
| 4 | You bought it as somewhere where you could keep me , and that 's something quite different . |
| 5 | Efforts to encourage the use of condoms as protection against sexually transmitted infections should emphasise their use as well as rather than instead of more effective contraceptive methods , but greater knowledge of postcoital methods and their use is also vital . |
| 6 | Or whatever I mean er as well as rather than the |
| 7 | The answer is to do a Save As rather than a Save . |
| 8 | Verbose as in when they actually said things , they they did a lot of talking . |
| 9 | Fast free kicks are ok ( as along as the ball is stopped I think ) what was very illegal was the fact that the free kick was taken from a COMPLETELY different spot to where the foul took place , so the Leeds player were ( justifiably ) waiting for the ball to be placed where it should have been . |
| 10 | This also implies , as recognized by the community development activists of the 1970s and their inheritors the ‘ local socialists ’ , that poverty is a political condition as much if not more than a social or economic one . |
| 11 | As much if not more Gaulliste than de Gaulle , d'Argenlieu , a regular naval officer , was also the former prior of a Carmelite monastery . |
| 12 | The issue between the Roman and the Celtic clergy , however , turned at this time as much if not more on the question of the validity of orders as on the date of Easter or the shape of the tonsure . |
| 13 | The American view of neutralisation in the Third World will continue to determine the efficacy of this concept for the resolution or limitation of conflict as much if not more than the Soviet view . |
| 14 | Some children do n't seem to do as much if their parent is on the premises so maybe parent help in the classroom should be restricted to only some activities , at specific times . |
| 15 | Of Conservative leaders in the twentieth century , A.J. Balfour ( 191 1 ) , Austen Chamberlain ( 1922 ) , Neville Chamberlain ( 1940 ) , Sir Alec Douglas-Home ( 1965 ) , and Mr Heath ( 1975 ) were all eventually forced out of the leadership because of the lack of party support in Parliament ; the last two as much because they had also lost general elections . |
| 16 | The trouble was kept to a minimum as much because of the novelty of the situation as anything else . |
| 17 | Attempts by trade unions to organise such temporary workers might well make little headway , as much because the latter do not perceive that they need unions to protect them as because they are a transient population . |
| 18 | High alcohol intake is an important cause of treatment failure in hypertension , as much because of poor compliance with medication or beer promoted obesity as from direct effects on blood pressure . |
| 19 | You think to yourself now what am I giving , what am I giving in the contribution box now as compared to one , two , three , four , five , years ago , it may be the same and it may be as much as you can afford , well if that 's so , then that 's grand is n't it ? |
| 20 | ‘ There would be bodies out here as well as inside if there had been a massacre . |
| 21 | Trent had calculated the distance between the culvert and the junction of the old and new rivers as less than four miles . |
| 22 | When analysis is complete it should set ( m ) 2 as less than 0–01 V 2 , a factor ten smaller than the upper limit found in the experiment at ILL . |
| 23 | It is important to stress that temporary , seasonal , part-time ( defined as less than 24 hours per week ) and those in firms with less than 10 employees are not included . |
| 24 | Cole with Utting ( 1962 , Chapter 5 ) estimated that 76 per cent of single and widowed women over pensionable age in Britain in 1959 were living in poverty ( defined as less than £3.50 per week ) . |
| 25 | As long as the machine could be there too . |
| 26 | But America will be right to say no , as long as it has worries about its own inflation . |
| 27 | They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism . |
| 28 | But , as long as they are in my hands , I can not bring myself to destroy any more , or anything written by you . |
| 29 | All is well as long as the subject is lying down , but when he stands up , the reflexes which normally make arteries all over the body contract to meet the new hydrostatic conditions no longer operate effectively , and a sharp and dangerous fall of blood pressure follows . |
| 30 | Any one of us may also apprehend an individual whom we know to be , or whom we have reasonable grounds for suspecting to be , guilty of such an offence as long as it has been committed . |