Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [adv] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Converters made of chromite and copper oxide were considered as long ago as the 1970s , but ruled out because they proved less effective than those containing the more precious metals . |
| 2 | A powerful challenge to such approaches was made as long ago as the 1930s by Professor E. E. Evans-Pritchard who lived with and studied the Azande of Central Africa , a technologically simple society whom Europeans therefore tended to assume were intellectually simple as well . |
| 3 | The epicentre was near Bishops Castle in Shropshire , but the shaking was felt as far afield as the intensity 2 area . |
| 4 | Its influence is felt as far away as the London Underground , which is having its new , networked , interactive time-tabling system , Cart , programmed by a Delhi firm , CMC . |
| 5 | The shock of the sinking was felt as far away as the World 's Edge Mountains and is recorded in the chronicles of the Dwarf kings . |
| 6 | In the second year , there is an in-depth examination of Scotland since 1660 ; this brings out how many aspects of modern Scotland were shaped as long ago as the late seventeenth century . |
| 7 | An earlier wharf there had been used as long ago as the mid 17C. to off-load haematite brought up from Low Furness mines for the le Fleming family 's iron forge on Church Beck . |
| 8 | The foregoing justification of induction is quite unacceptable , as David Hume conclusively demonstrated as long ago as the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 9 | The medicinal application of herbs can be traced as far back as a Chinese herbal written nearly 5,000 years ago , and there are Egyptian papyri from 2,800 B.C. listing such herbs as mint , marjoram and juniper for medicinal use . |
| 10 | However , the effects of urban growth on rural communities had been recognized as long ago as the late 1930s , when Ashby ( 1939 ) argued that the unbalanced age structure and uneconomic service provision caused by rural depopulation had been offset by the spread of urban population into the rural areas in the inter-war years . |
| 11 | Although the need for one organization of policy-making for curriculum and examinations had been recognized as long ago as the mid-1960s ( through the establishment of the Schools Council ) , it had been abandoned in the early 1980s in favour of centralized curriculum-making and a blanket acceptance that the assessment of individual pupils ' achievement would lead to greater improvements in the system than the development of logically connected public examinations and national qualifications . |
| 12 | But the idea of closer political ties with England had first been mooted as far back as the late fifteenth century , by James III ; and even though it was then an extremely unpopular policy , it was an idea which never again quite went away . |
| 13 | Lobster-like animals are found as far back as the Triassic , and both crabs and lobsters are frequent and appealing fossils in Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks . |
| 14 | Spiders are known as far back as the Carboniferous , but their remains are principally known fossilized from the Tertiary ambers , where perfectly preserved specimens retain even the hairs on the legs . |
| 15 | Has worked as far afield as the University of Otago [ New Zealand ] . |
| 16 | The strategy was originally conceived as far back as the late 1960's when it appeared to many of us that unless we obtained a greater command over our raw materials we would be exposed to a fatal squeeze from the oil companies , who were increasingly entering our own field of business . |
| 17 | This was established as long ago as the year 1802 by William Herschel , one of the greatest observers who has ever lived . |