Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The meeting Reccommend to Mr. McNiell of Ardnacross to get the Church yeard Dyke of Kildalton finished as soon as possible … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thus a British colonial official in Nigeria commented as early as 1862 that press liberty was a ‘ dangerous instrument in the hands of semi-civilised negroes ’ . |
| 9 | It has already been indicated that the tendency towards greater " flexibility " within newer forms of English was noted by Graham Hough as early as 1970 . |