Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 2 | Secondly , what would happen to the profitability of Britain 's least successful credit operators if it reacted to the credit demand signals of customers as rapidly as it responds to their credit risk signals ? |
| 3 | Although Betsy and her two younger sisters were reared in one of the better-off families of Saltcoats , she had a love of the sea and ships and from the age of 15 had gone on trips on Clytus as often as her parents allowed . |
| 4 | The ancient Egyptians had no compunction in substituting glass or faience for natural stones , the Byzantines explored the possibilities of enamel and the Chinese began to produce pearls by culture as early as the thirteenth century , a process which in the hands of the Japanese first brought fine pearls to the new mass market . |
| 5 | At the same time the adrenalin surge is itself a strong feeling and any strong feeling can be a trigger factor in stimulating the urge to use other mood-altering substances or processes — It is therefore advisable for people in recovery from any form of addictive disease that they should avoid gambling and other forms of risk-taking as far as possible . |
| 6 | Counterintuitive though this may seem , AI might help us understand the perceptual experiences of kingfishers as well as kings . |
| 7 | Earlier sociologists paid considerable attention to the religious , moral and collective sentiments of societies , but recently this has not been brought into models of society as fully as it once was . |
| 8 | Deposits of comparable material which extend from the Ukraine westwards along the foot of the Hercynian uplands of Europe as far as the chalk plateaus of Artois and Picardy , were most likely derived by deflation from the glacial deposits of the North European Plain during the Pleistocene period . |
| 9 | There are two possibilities : either to exploit the existing key order — if that is possible — or to completely destroy that order , and to allocate keys to addresses as randomly as possible . |
| 10 | We are very much aware that initiatives involving major revisions of the curriculum have significant resource implications for institutions as well as for SCOTVEC and , for this reason , we have decided that a phased introduction would be appropriate for the revision of advanced courses . |
| 11 | Some of his oldest friends , who for years had been accustomed to seeing him , fat and genial , as the leading light of a pig-sticking expedition , were astonished to hear him now holding forth like a veritable Newton or Faraday and discussing the latest discoveries in medicine as fluently as if they were entries in the Bengal Club Cup or the Planters ' Handicap . |
| 12 | The US Vice-President , Dan Quayle , visited Panama on Jan. 27-28 , 1990 , and declared that the USA wanted to withdraw its troops from Panama as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | The afternoon 's shopping had been arranged to console her sister Penelope , who at twenty-five was still young enough to suffer disappointments in love as commonly as colds or headaches . |
| 14 | I agree with all the right hon. and hon. Members who said — I think that almost all who have spoken so far made this point — that it is very important to give Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland the prospect of joining the Community at least by the end of the decade , and to give them every possible assistance in meeting the economic and political conditions for membership as soon as possible . |
| 15 | All in all she managed to add considerably to her feelings of inadequacy as far as Ace was concerned by the time she made her way downstairs towards the kitchen . |
| 16 | If that departure has not been wholly amicable and an adjustment arises which increases an individual 's tax liability , there is the prospect of prolonged discussions with former partners and possibly problems of collectability as far as the Revenue is concerned . |
| 17 | Some directors were of course friends of administration , and used their powers of patronage as far as possible to supplement the efforts of government , but others , and notably the Elphinstone family , used their Indian patronage to sustain an opposition to Henry Dundas in Scotland . |
| 18 | This article aims to explore these questions on exercise as fully as possible . |
| 19 | Because of strong demand , all companies are urging delegates to book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment . |
| 20 | The Ministry of Defence 's legal department therefore has a powerful incentive to abolish commoners ' rights at Greenham as quickly and comprehensively as possible . |
| 21 | Send details to Observations at SCRE as soon as possible for Observations Number 4 , Autumn 1993 . |
| 22 | Needing to borrow £50,000 million this year , Mr Lamont had to promise his creditors that he would put his accounts in order as soon as possible . |
| 23 | On Feb. 6 Iraq announced the breaking-off of diplomatic relations with France as well as with the USA , the UK , Italy , Saudi Arabia and Egypt . |
| 24 | I thi I think they 're , the the NALGO COHSE and NUPE health branches are making their own arrangements in Northumberland as far as I know . |
| 25 | John Foster Dulles , a leading Republican spokesman on foreign affairs , was a member of the American delegation to the UN , and the State Department intended that Dulles should speak in conciliatory vein in the hope that the Soviet Union would accept the establishment of a temporary commission ; the Truman administration was embarrassed but wished to advance non-communist prospects in Korea as far as was possible . |
| 26 | The simplest way of getting the outstanding items on board as cheaply as possible is by means of technology exchange and cross-licensing agreements , and COSE was seen as forum for effecting this . |
| 27 | The simplest way of getting the outstanding items on board as cheaply as possible , is through technology exchange and cross-licensing and COSE was seen as forum for this . |
| 28 | He was the first Roman Catholic director-general of the BBC , taking over at a difficult time , when the Ulster issue was posing serious dilemmas for broadcasters as well as for politicians . |
| 29 | There is also leading edge research taking place into pushing the limits of compression as far as they can possibly go . |
| 30 | It was chiefly employed for the production of darker shades of wool as well as for dying silk black , and survived far longer than many other naturally derived dyes . |