Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of this period matters had by no means gone as far as this , for the growth of political parties in eighteenth-century England was curiously erratic . |
| 2 | The first meeting of the Academic Board of the Technical College took place in April 1966 , and considered a proposal to develop courses for CNAA awards as soon as possible , given that Plymouth was already doing so . |
| 3 | The work of solicitors varies as widely as the community they service . |
| 4 | Even when Bevin as British foreign secretary speedily found himself entangled in tough disputes with the USSR , this did not lead him to follow Churchill 's line that Britain had of necessity to work as closely as possible with the United States . |
| 5 | The burst of enthusiasm died as swiftly as it had kindled . |
| 6 | Community care has pushed forward the idea of bringing more people out of institutions to live as independently as possible . |
| 7 | He also called on ANC president Nelson Mandela and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha to meet as soon as possible to end political violence in the region . |
| 8 | Expression of NFs occurs as early as 9-10 days of gestation in the mouse central and peripheral nervous system and coincides with the appearance of postmitotic neurons ( 2 ) . |
| 9 | It may be necessary to restructure the business before it is acquired ; the tax liabilities involved need to be assessed , and the position of management protected as far as possible . |
| 10 | The meeting Reccommend to Mr. McNiell of Ardnacross to get the Church yeard Dyke of Kildalton finished as soon as possible … |
| 11 | I appeal to the people of Burma to economise as far as possible in the consumption of rice and foodstuffs ; so that we may have some surplus to send to a hungry world . |
| 12 | One way in which gender , ethnicity and class have been seen to fit together is as a consequence of capitalist social relations : women are exploited in the workplace because of the benefit that employers derive from this , and in the home because employers need to have a new generation of workers produced as cheaply as possible . |
| 13 | In my youth ( many years ago ) I worked as a redcoat at Butlin 's in Bognor Regis and used to be House Captain of York where we trained teams of holidaymakers to go as fast as possible . |
| 14 | But he floated into the midst of a sea of water stretching as far as he could discern on every side around him . |
| 15 | The most precious opals , including black opals the rainbow colours of which are set off against a sombre background , are those from the opal fields of Australia opened as lately as 1872 but not seriously exploited until the twentieth century . |
| 16 | The information is needed for the compilation of trade figures as well as for VAT calculations . |
| 17 | Beyond the placid waters of a small lake , a golden forest of trees stretched as far as the eye could see . |
| 18 | Neither is it that tonics are not requested ; large numbers of people get as far as the doctor 's surgery to complain of tiredness , lethargy and mild depression , and even larger numbers go straight to the chemist . |
| 19 | Facts were to do with the material conditions of life described as precisely as possible and counted as accurately as possible . |
| 20 | You can have been had by the whole of Fighter Command as far as I 'm concerned ; just as long as you add me to the list . ’ |
| 21 | erm the I mean we have a pentadactyl limb , whether we climb or run or fly or swim , you can recognise an obvious deep anatomical resemblance between the limbs of organisms behaving as differently as that , and therefore that if we really want to understand evolution we have to understand these erm , I do n't know whether one wants to call them plans or archetypes , or structures , call them what you will . |
| 22 | The rumblings of death appear as early as Mark 3:6 after the stories of conflict with the religious authorities . |
| 23 | This one , however , was to be far more personally taxing for Mrs Whitehouse , for the apparent consensus of opinion that surrounded her campaign against Thorsen evaporated as quickly as it had developed . |
| 24 | His interview with Law went as badly as it is easily possible to imagine . |
| 25 | I am often asked how , with Biros vanishing as often as they do , is it possible for some writers to get so much down on paper in a single lifetime ? |
| 26 | The first full edition seems to have been assembled in a very haphazard fashion , with names added as fast as they could be obtained , out of alphabetical order , and with an unreliable index . |
| 27 | However , if you need to get onto port tack as soon as possible , then go behind any big group and tack into the ( probably ) larger gap to windward of them . |
| 28 | But the big freeze suprised the weathermen with warnings coming as late as 4am to council depots . |
| 29 | However , Lord Marshall 's letter says that because of the Government 's commitment to introduce competition into electricity supply as quickly as possible ‘ alternative arrangements for protecting the security of supply ’ would need to be made , involving a ‘ capacity deficiency scheme ’ . |
| 30 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |