Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innovations in the curriculum included vocal music and Natural Science ( though lectures on Geology , Chemistry , and Zoology had been arranged since as early as 1871 ) . |
| 2 | Sightings have been reported from as far as France and the Netherlands . |
| 3 | Scientific ideas and theories are accepted for as long as the known evidence supports them . |
| 4 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 5 | Scientific ideas and theories are accepted for as long as the known evidence supports them . |
| 6 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 7 | You can not pretend to people who , like you , have been pretending for as long as they can remember : they do not let you get away with it . |
| 8 | Nicknames have been used for as long as man has identified himself . |
| 9 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 10 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 11 | Clearly , whatever the problems it is important that they are dealt with as early as possible . |
| 12 | Will he ensure that the vast amount of aid which has been sent into the region for military purposes will in future be for peaceful purposes so that the region 's social injustices are dealt with as rapidly as possible ? |
| 13 | Moreover , agents of the process may be genuinely unaware of what they are doing for as long as they see good professional practice as unitary , consensual and unproblematic . |
| 14 | There are many advantages to having a care manager , ‘ someone in charge out there ’ , and this has long been recognized as essential , although in the past this recognition has not been focused on as closely as under the current care management system . |
| 15 | Cavity treatment should be delayed for as long as possible to allow the injected solution to remain in contact with blood and other body fluids and care to avoid spillage should be exercised when carrying out drainage . |
| 16 | Although the Scottish Office would not say how far supplies exceeded MACs for lead , at least 17 schemes were in progress to reduce lead in water that would not be completed until as late as 1992 . |
| 17 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 18 | In raising questions about curriculum content and balance , therefore , the balance and disposition of these generic activities must be looked at as searchingly as the balance of subject time . |
| 19 | The guarantee can be made for as long as the manufacturer chooses . |
| 20 | The second interpretation can be arrived at by reading the provision in two parts : ( 1 ) judges ' commissions are to be made for as long as they behave themselves , implying that if they misbehave they may be dismissed by the Crown ; ( 2 ) they may be removed by the Crown on an Address of both Houses , even though they have not misbehaved themselves . |
| 21 | Unemployment benefit is limited to only one year , and , unlike other national insurance benefits , such as an old-age pension , can not be drawn for as long as needed . |
| 22 | The railroad is in all its relations a matter of earnest business , to be got through as soon as possible . |
| 23 | For the present , then , the vital need is to do everything possible to secure a safe retirement of XH558 , where she will be cared for as well as she has been since becoming the VDF display aircraft . |
| 24 | In a conversation in July with Cloyce K. Huston of the American mission in Japan , MacArthur reverted to his former view that a peace treaty should be arrived at as soon as possible . |
| 25 | PAYE , National Insurance , statutory sick pay — all these have to be dealt with as well as the problems of year end returns and changes in legislation . |
| 26 | Any rock and border plants still to be lifted , split-up and re-planted should be dealt with as soon as possible . |
| 27 | We are particularly anxious to bring the courts back into use for the 1993 season , so we would be most grateful if the application could be dealt with as soon as possible . |
| 28 | It is a feature of modernity that our elder citizens are considered to be a nuisance to be dealt with as quietly and unobtrusively as possible . |
| 29 | Thus the time spent on the settling-down and clearing-up stages varied from 7 to 45 per cent of the total session , and the introductory stage varied similarly , largely because some teachers treated it as a purely administrative matter to be dealt with as succinctly as possible , while others incorporated it into the session as the whole-class teaching in an arrangement otherwise dominated by group work . |
| 30 | Algal blooms should be dealt with as quickly as possible , using a product which removes them without damaging any plants , and hence the balance of the aquarium/pond . |