Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] as [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the Geneva conference requirement that heavy weapons in the area be placed under UN supervision from Sept. 12 [ see above ] , renewed artillery attacks were reported as early as Sept. 14 in Sarajevo ( which was suffering severe water and electricity shortages as supply lines were interrupted ) . |
| 2 | Excavations have shown that the extensive legionary fortress near Inchtuthil , north of Perth , had to be evacuated as early as AD 87 before construction had been completed . |
| 3 | That sits oddly with the fact that the board was reconstituted as recently as May 1990 and has been rationalised , streamlined and reinvigorated since that date . |
| 4 | The tension was exemplified as early as July 1950 when bilateral political-military conversations were held in Washington . |
| 5 | Vocational elements can be introduced as early as Module 1 , but will become more pronounced as the learners progress through the five levels . |
| 6 | The Lebanese press had obligingly produced a comic version of McFarlane ; but the film versions of both Reagan and North were also set as early as November 1986 , and did not much change thereafter . |
| 7 | The threat led to the resignation on March 4 of the head of the Special Force for the Fight against Drug Traffickers ( FELCN ) , Col. Faustino Rico Toro ( who had been appointed as recently as Feb. 26 ) , and was followed by that of the Interior Minister , Capobianco Ribera , after accusations in the US press of his association with drug trafficking [ see p. 38094-95 ] . |
| 8 | The agency claimed that , having stated as recently as Sept. 17 that it had no unreleased BNL material , it had since discovered the existence of a series of transmissions from the CIA 's Rome station which indicated that the Rome headquarters of BNL had authorized some of the Iraqi loans . |
| 9 | The US had maintained as recently as Oct. 15 its opposition to IMF assistance to Vietnam , blocking a French plan at a regional IMF meeting in Bangkok to help Vietnam pay off arrears of US$140 million to the Fund . |
| 10 | This prescriptive approach has been repeated as recently as October 1988 , when the director of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools in Northern Ireland said that people who sent their children to integrated schools rather than catholic ones were breaking the law of the church . |
| 11 | This concern was expressed as early as spring 1991 . |
| 12 | Moves for peace had begun as early as summer 1904 , when it was becoming apparent that the struggle would be long drawn out . |
| 13 | A review of the constitutional position of the police and the ‘ arrangements for their control and administration ’ , had been carried out by a Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Willink whose final report had been published as early as May 1962 . |
| 14 | Elections had last been held as recently as May 1992 for a nominal four-year term [ see pp. 38919 ; 38970 ] . |