Example sentences of "as [adv] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This option was exercised in the context of a public takeover bid in the Alfa-Laval/Tetrapak case , but the Commission lifted the suspension as soon as its serious doubts were satisfied . |
| 2 | I could not help feeling that if we could have had him from the moment of the return of Civil Government Burma would have been in a happier and more disciplined condition , ready to see the real task which the nation would have to face as soon as its political future was decided . |
| 3 | Some individuals have no worries ; they have planned the event for years , made maximum pension contributions , carefully invested their savings , covered themselves and family in insurance policies , budgeted ahead and can even gleefully tell you about the exotic round-the-world trip they intend to take just as soon as their new life begins . |
| 4 | Those that hated the familiarity rarely went out and left the States as soon as their initial contract was completed . |
| 5 | Stirling had also made arrangements for Paddy Mayne to take his squadron to the Lebanon for ski training , as soon as their operational commitments were ended . |
| 6 | As soon as My Fair Lady began gushing dollars , however , two of the residuary legatees , the British Museum and RADA , decided that his will was worth contesting . |
| 7 | As soon as our financial situation has eased we 'll certainly employ someone . |
| 8 | I am authorised to tell you that my Government is very happy that your treatment has been successful and we hope that as soon as your medical advisers deem you fit to travel , you will mike arrangements and leave . ’ |
| 9 | This time , however , as soon as his front wing was level with the rear wing of the other car , he swung the wheel hard over . |
| 10 | Oddly , though he could never bear to be out of her sight and cried whenever she left him , as soon as his eldest sister , the faithful Cis , got him to her own home he ceased to cry . |
| 11 | he said at the time that as soon as his international career was over that he could go back to Blackheath and see them right . |
| 12 | But as soon as his regular check brings to light the absentee he is able to take prompt and appropriate action . |
| 13 | The karateka steps forward and , as soon as his leading leg touches the ground , throws the punch in a sort of screwing motion . |
| 14 | As far as my own taste in music is concerned I like everything from ragtime to opera , but prefer the classical composers such as Mozart , Beethoven , Strauss and Tchaikovsky . |
| 15 | Early the following year , the Hopewell was loaded once more with harvests of cotton and indigo as well as its principal cargo , 9,500 pounds of tobacco , and she set sail from the harbour with her sails reefed against the season 's squalls and a small crew on board , under James Lariot as captain . |
| 16 | Fenna is the dark force of the imagination as well as its golden dancing ; Fenna is chaos as well as order , and brings , on fiery dragon breath , the full danger of the chasm . |
| 17 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 18 | He was sovereign , and he was the leader of the whole Christian outreach as well as its energising power . |
| 19 | Although income was more equally distributed among older people in Britain than in the other six nations , this emphasises the more universal impact of age discrimination in this country as well as its greater penalty . |
| 20 | Following the Harmel Report members agreed that NATO should have a political role , negotiating for détente with the eastern bloc , as well as its traditional defence role . |
| 21 | While software house MMT Computing Plc is still ticking over , it believes that attempts at broadening its skills base to cover open systems as well as its traditional mainframe business will help restore margins to pre-recession levels . |
| 22 | As well as its apparent willingness to take on board proven independent software technologies , the company is also making its own products available on other platforms . |
| 23 | The depot and its locomotives have a high place in the Southern enthusiasts ' hearts and Boocock has brought together a collection of pictures that illustrated the life in and around the depot as well as its varied locomotive stud out and about on the system 's metals . |
| 24 | By 1960 , Sisson was a top Civil Servant ( 'civil to everyone , and servant to the devil' ) and had published a treatise called The Spirit of British Administration , memorable for its irony as well as its broad view of the subject . |
| 25 | As well as its general indications in anxiety , depression , and problems with relationships , counselling has been advocated for smoking cessation , modification of diet , alcohol misuse , postnatal depression , addiction to tranquillisers , and high risk sexual behaviour . |
| 26 | She uses an isolating varnish to ensure that the paint she applies can be removed without trouble at some later date — when , for example , the fashion might be to display the historical vicissitudes of the painting as well as its aesthetic freight . |
| 27 | The latency of the response to cholera toxin as well as its prolonged effect depend on its mode of action as mentioned above . |
| 28 | As well as its new LaserJet network printers and network boards launched at the beginning of the month , Hewlett-Packard Co added four new high-end production-capacity printers , the HP 5000 series . |
| 29 | Seligman and Yellen take the theory further , in mapping the psychological reality of dreaming on to contemporary neurophysiological evidence of brain functioning during sleep , accounting for the emotional quality of dreaming as well as its visual content . |
| 30 | As well as its unparalleled choice of about 70 different champagnes , Oddbins now boasts around 50 tempting imitators . |