Example sentences of "[adv] as [adv] [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 2 | Many professionals wish they had been given more detailed and honest feedback far sooner , perhaps as early as the SSI/RHA 's initial monitoring . |
| 3 | The apparent extension of the effects of the collision of the Indian and Eurasian Plates to much of central and eastern Asia , and possibly as far as the Baikal Rift ( Fig. 3.21 ) , in fact indicates that the consequences of plate interaction need not necessarily be confined to plate margins . |
| 4 | After the first knowledge of the place , and still after the first meeting with Conchis , even as late as the Foulkes incident , I had wanted to talk about it — and to Alison . |
| 5 | They make the 2600 kilometre trip regularly , transporting the GSi Astras from their base near Dungannon to GM Spain 's headquarters in Madrid and on to events throughout the country — even as far as the Canary Islands . |
| 6 | Extensive lead mining was done on Grassington Moor , north-east of this Wharfedale village , from at least as early as the Tudor period , and some remains of the industry are still to be seen , mainly dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 7 | A chemical fire in Switzerland caused toxic materials to be transported by the Rhine at least as far as the Netherlands ; |
| 8 | LIKE death and taxes , criticism is one of life 's certainties , at least as far as the RUC is concerned . |
| 9 | In any case , even the GCC itself recognises that such a defence structure will be inadequate — at least as far as the Gulf is concerned . |
| 10 | We also go off on walking weekends maybe as far as the Gower . |
| 11 | The -300bp construct is deleted to a BamHI site which is -300bp from the cap site and extends downstream as far as the RI site in the last exon ( IV ) . |
| 12 | The European zone , for example , was growing twice as fast as the United States ' zone , and now employed a quarter of a million people . |
| 13 | This finding may explain why attempts to liberalise the archaic Sunday-trading laws of England and Wales ( Scottish shops can open as they please ) have split the Conservatives quite as deeply as the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 14 | We are aiming , I think , for disaster , certainly as far as the Amazon basin is concerned . |