Example sentences of "of the [noun] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stunned children filed out of the church as quietly as they had filed in . |
| 2 | The rules mean that police would have to take control of the computer as soon as possible after the offence and establish that it was working properly at all times . |
| 3 | I 'll take him back to Strelsau and you must get out of the country as fast as you can . ’ |
| 4 | Again , it must be stressed that the purchaser and vendor should involve their respective accountants in the negotiation of the rules as early as possible . |
| 5 | Better , then , to start off down the wrong valley and take the road along the Gave d'Aspe as far as Escot ; you can do this avoiding the main road , because there is a minor road out of Oloron going all the way along the eastern side of the valley as far as Escot . |
| 6 | Although she knew that he would n't wake , she turned the handle of the door as carefully as if expecting it to explode . |
| 7 | Far too many still favour the shock tactics of getting those who are no longer deemed useful out of the door as fast as possible — and good riddance . |
| 8 | A sketch of the houses on the north side of the west end of Crown Street made by T. H. Shepherd in May 1858 shows them in the early stages of demolition , but two of his later sketches , dated March 1859 , show almost the whole south side of Fludyer Street as still standing although notice had been served on some of the occupiers as early as March 1856 . |
| 9 | For the reasons that I gave in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Bexleyheath ( Mr. Townsend ) , I believe that we are looking after the interests and future of the wood as thoroughly as any reasonable person could . |
| 10 | The right shoulder needs to be held back and kept out of the backswing as long as possible . |
| 11 | It is therefore important to emphasize that the primary visual cortex is not the end of the road as far as the analysis of visual input is concerned . |
| 12 | The Leonard Arthur case was the tip of the iceberg as far as I was concerned . ’ |
| 13 | does n't work out the right way , but that must be just the tip of the iceberg as far as you 're concerned . |
| 14 | The optimum point of balance is to resolve the coherence of the text as quickly as possible . |
| 15 | And yet if he were to look further afield , if he followed the curve of the river as far as he was able to see , he knew that in turn , it would run smoothly into the sea . |
| 16 | After the break he resumed work and continued until two-thirty in the afternoon when it was the end of the day as far as the horses were concerned . |
| 17 | Now , erm , yes , I 'd like to pick up a comment made by the Director , erm , he said quite rightly that the prevention factor is really out of the window as far as the budget is concerned , and pro as far as operations are concerned . |
| 18 | We 've not managed to clear the speaker 's part of the platform as entirely as the Americans do , but at least we 've managed to create a decent space around the speaker . |
| 19 | Under the agreement Spain declared its support for full Hungarian membership of the EC as soon as possible . |
| 20 | I was looking at er the first page the which brings together the sub team figures , erm , looks to me as though the completed work reflects the priority that we 're giving to stage two work , and I think we continue to weeding , particularly , remain anxious to clear out of the system as soon as possible all old stage two files , and I propose to continue to revue progress on those and with each A D as I see them . |
| 21 | The tenant 's works will probably include valuable fitting out items and while a landlord will wish to reclaim vacant possession of the premises as soon as possible after determination in order to seek a reletting , the handing over of the tenant 's works should be resisted . |
| 22 | the westgate with part of the wall as far as particular upright stone in the said wall , between the said gates and the standing stile and steps belongs to Chew Stoke and is repaired by the parishioners thereof ; the other part home to the poor house is repaired by the parish of Chew Magna ; the east side is repaired and half of the wall and stile by the parish of Stowey ; the other by the parish of Norton … |
| 23 | The Department of the Environment ( DoE , the central government department with overall responsibility for local government in England ) was , he says , trapped into the position of being both the advocate of local services within the centre and the guardian of the purse-strings as far as local government was concerned ( in that respect the Secretary of State acted as a sort of ‘ mini chancellor ’ ) ( Rhodes , 1986 , p. 238 ) . |
| 24 | The relatively peaceful and well-governed " home counties " of the Duke of Aquitaine , from Poitiers westwards to the sea at Talmont , then down the coast to Bordeaux and up the valley of the Garonne as far as Agen , comprised an area as large as midland and southeastern England and included some of the most prosperous and commercially developed parts of the whole duchy . |
| 25 | But astronomers from Germany , the main contributor to the project , were keen to start the second part of the mission as soon as possible . |
| 26 | Money Expect to be challenged and opposed every step of the way as far as your long-term financial plans are concerned , but do n't give up . |
| 27 | Well having had chance to peruse the weekend papers and read the various match reports on the game I can only say that the season better end quickly so we can get the scum worshipping out of the way as quickly as possible . |
| 28 | Well having had chance to peruse the weekend papers and read the various match reports on the game I can only say that the season better end quickly so we can get the scum worshipping out of the way as quickly as possible . |
| 29 | Your worships , er , there 's nothing at all more sinister in the failure to stop and failure to report than than that , i th that is a a true record of the er er er of the incident as far as Mrs was concerned erm and it is something which erm comes about an accident which came about probably through the inexperience of the children er , running across the pedestrian crossing thinking that they have priority erm and not having regard to other road users er , and Mrs was travelling at slow speed but it was she was put in a difficult position by the the way in which the children ran across the road . |
| 30 | The final four columns of Table 11.1 give details of the financial position of the companies as far as this could be discerned from published data . |