Example sentences of "as [adv] [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No — this was still the interior of the Drum , its walls stained with smoke , its floor a compost of old rushes and nameless beetles , its sour beer not so much purchased as merely hired for a while . |
| 2 | He talked of the hundreds of thousands who traded away their votes so as not to register for the community charge . |
| 3 | Coleman was blamed for reducing the period of three years as originally fixed for the course of instruction in Vial 's time , to as little as three or four months , so that some men were sent out into practice at 19 , 18 , or even 17 years of age ( as a contrary example , Coleman 's nephew , E.C . |
| 4 | Watching the other girl jog into the distance , Lindsey hesitated fractionally before deciding that she might as well go for a swim anyway . |
| 5 | The council says the scheme will give pedestrians greater comfort and safety as well catering for the needs of the disabled . |
| 6 | Cyril Bleasdale , director of ScotRail , and other senior managers who will meet the minister are optimistic that the figures will boost their case as well placed for a move to the private sector . |
| 7 | Harry Bradshaw , who died in December at the age of 77 , was probably as well known for the manner in which he failed to win the 1949 Open as his considerable success elsewhere . |
| 8 | Might as well hang for a sheep as a lamb . |
| 9 | Human DNA from either normal males ( B , D and F ) or normal females ( A , C and E ) was amplified using the primers 5'-ATTTGTTCTAAGTCGCCATATTCTCT and 5'-CATACAGCTGAAGCTTGTAGACACACT , as previously described for the amplification of ZFY ( 1 ) , in a reaction volume of 50 µl containing 50 ng of template , 5 mM MgCl 2 , 250 µM dNTPs , 50 mM KCl , 0.1% Triton X-100 , 10 mM Tris-HCl , pH 8.5 , 50 pmoles of each primer and 1 unit of Taq polymerase ( Promega ) . |