Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was in no hurry , but just wanted to get out of that town as soon as possible . |
| 2 | The fact that she was worried about her own career seemed to be a matter of little interest as far as Ross was concerned . |
| 3 | The bankers ' peace , however , was not a genuine one , but a rampant militarism which threatened to destroy the foundations of civilized life as surely as , if less quickly than , war itself . |
| 4 | Geoffrey Martel had perceived the propaganda potential of public war as early as the mid eleventh century ; later it enabled Henry the Liberal of Champagne to claim the military service of all lords within his county , a reapplication of the Carolingian ban . |
| 5 | This annual service charge is an object of some suspicion as far as many would-be buyers are concerned , and in some countries there is legislation to protect buyers against developers who set the charge low initially and then raise it excessively later . |
| 6 | By and large , their message is that we should get rid of this Government as quickly as we can and put a Labour Government in their place . |
| 7 | Resolved that this meeting concurs in Apinion [ sic ] with the said Committee — that it will be necessary to carry on the Business of this Institution as perfectly as possible , that there should be two Professors appointed & that as soon as the proposed plan for the College is executed , which , from the Encouragement already given , 't is hoped will be speedily accomplished — The members will avail themselves of the Offer made by the Committee and refer the Merits of Candidates for the second professorship to their investigation . |
| 8 | And and and the three thousand nine hundred does n't seem out of this world as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 9 | That co-operation will be vital in getting to the bottom of this matter as soon as possible . |
| 10 | That Leeds was working within the constraints of this theory as early as 1912 is often overlooked . |
| 11 | They wanted the return of civil government as early as possible , and on this point they seemed satisfied by the assurances of Lord Mountbatten 's representative and Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith . |
| 12 | All you have to do is stand still , then in a sudden , short burst of activity you chuck this sort of cannon-ball-like object as far as you can . |
| 13 | Cross-references to this appendix are given by italic numbers , ( eg 16 ) From Joseph Conrad , The Secret Sharer On my right hand there were lines of fishing-stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences , incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes , and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean ; for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye could reach ( 1 ) . |
| 14 | And to be more explicit and to show you how tall I stand by the giant , I will put down a simile of human life as far as I now perceive it ; that is , to the point to which I say we both have arrived at . |
| 15 | This is another interesting theoretical point , but probably of little consequence as far as error correction is concerned . |
| 16 | Why is it that in some societies like our own the three stages of childhood development are clearly distinguishable and of great importance as far as personality formation is concerned , whereas in other societies this is much less true , and one or two stages seem to be almost absent altogether ? |
| 17 | But I can end with one piece of good news as far as I 'm concerned — the reappointment of Alan Davies and Robert Norster to the coaching positions . |
| 18 | If the Bank 's lawyers fail to have the case struck out early on , they will probably appeal on the principle of regulatory immunity as far as the House of Lords , Britain 's equivalent of the Supreme Court . |
| 19 | In addition , the use of these hypersensitive sites as markers for regions which are of regulatory importance as well as for use in gene targeting experiments is now possible . |
| 20 | Instead , I propose taking the logic of generic concentration as far as it can go , with a degree which would study , in detail , a single genre , poetry . |
| 21 | WAITERS dash to and fro replenishing baskets of crusty bread as often as you like — a sure sign of a good French brasserie . |
| 22 | Four elements here are open to criticism : ( 1 ) the term batteur de mesure had become discredited and much less used by 1790 , because of its association with the bad old days ; ( 2 ) the ‘ large stick ’ whatever its size in 1750 , got markedly smaller by 1790 ; ( 3 ) there was no unified body of opinion which attacked ‘ woodchopping ’ over the decades : in fact Rousseau 's text , and those of his epigones , aspired to make musico-political points in favour of Italian opera as much as about beating time ; ( 4 ) audible stick signals can not be said , at least after 1781 , to have ‘ co-ordinated ’ chorus and ballet , if that implies ‘ heard as a matter of course ’ ; the evidence shows that no audible signal was thereafter heard as a matter of course . |
| 23 | For practical and economic reasons , therefore and in general , the main objective of systematic cleaning will be to reduce the use of manual labour as far as possible and to substitute other forms of energy mainly chemical . |
| 24 | The restrictive nature of the Stock Exchange 's rulebook had been drawn to the attention of the Director General of Fair Trading as early as 1976 ; three years later proceedings commenced . |
| 25 | … These principles are of particular importance as far as the press is concerned . |
| 26 | The second step is to sort out your priorities and let your lenders know of any problem as early as possible . |
| 27 | The second step is to sort out your priorities and let your lenders know of any problem as early as possible . |
| 28 | ‘ the general impression given by Mr. Morgan 's evidence is that the testator was alert , knew what he was doing , and there was no question of any confusion as far as Mr. Morgan was concerned . |
| 29 | The early '70s ( mine is a ‘ 71 — serial number 290586 ) was n't a great time for American guitars of any ilk as far as I remember . |
| 30 | Admittedly one can begin to detect suggestions of new thinking as early as 1965 . |