Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 However , to get some idea of the true impact , it is essential to put a comprehensive monitoring programme in place as soon as possible .
2 There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 .
3 There is a third route which , bearing in mind our concept of multimedia existing within a single , digital environment , is not strictly an exercise in multimedia as far as this study is concerned .
4 This is not the earliest example in the county , for silk weaving took place in Gloucester as early as 1637 .
5 Kathleen Stone ( 1973 ) identifies this device in operation as early as the late nineteenth century , in the steel industry .
6 Nevertheless the ridding of my skin complaint by necromancy coincided with a shift in emphasis as far as my instruction was concerned .
7 I 'm all for having the ball in play as often as possible .
8 Omanis made their mark in history as early as the third century .
9 Such pessimistic Conclusions are rejected by pluralist writers , who believe that the political system can be used to bring about any change in society so long as that is what the majority of people desire .
10 The lien of a solicitors ' firm over clients ' papers pending payment of its costs will not be lost by a change in membership so long as the papers have come into the firm 's possession before the change : they can not ( subject always to any specific arrangements with the client to the contrary ) lawfully be retained after such a change in respect of a debt falling due before that event .
11 But there was no money in conservation as far as the business people were concerned and the charities and voluntary bodies were well-meaning but lacked resources .
12 There were , too , distinct signs of an improvement in orders as early as the fourth quarter of 1992 , which have continued in the first quarter of 1993 , the chairman , Viscount Weir , said in London yesterday .
13 Erm , the situation in Shropshire as far as records are concerned is erm , relatively good .
14 This is regarded as a Good Thing by Orcs who are universally content with their lot , being ultimately happy to meet their end in battle so long as they get a chance of a good fight .
15 While such views are common doctrine in grammars as far as finite forms are concerned , it will be proposed here that a support or person is also present in the infinitival form of the verb , even though the latter can neither be predicated grammatically of a subject nor take any personal endings .
16 The strongest ecological difference is that between those who can accept whaling in principle so long as it is properly regulated and those who do not accept whaling in principle at all .
17 But I do go to the Methodist Chapel in Cotherstone as often as I can and , now and again , support various chapel functions in other places when asked .
18 Nothing symbolized Britain 's power in India so completely as the railway station .
19 Phone your office in London as often as you like !
20 When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible .
21 Well I have to say straight away that I 've erm worked on a Council with the Labour Party in opposition with us , and now with the Labour Party in Government with us with us a very small group , and I have to say it 's much preferable to have the Labour Party in power than to have the Conservative Party in power as far as we 're concerned , because at local level the sort of things that we want to do — providing better services , caring of people , all those sort of things — we do n't disagree .
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