Example sentences of "[prep] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest industrial sites are now often looked after as carefully as those of abbeys and castles . |
| 2 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
| 3 | If the precursor O 2 is passed through an electrical discharge so that dissociation and recombination leads to the formation of as well as the symmetrical species , the products of reaction with X will also include and , which are different molecules ; their frequencies will probably be quite similar , but their frequencies will differ considerably . |
| 4 | Once this alienation had set in , it was inevitable that , as in our day , the loved one should come to be regarded — at least by the conscious mind — as no more than a body to be disposed of as quickly and hygienically as possible . |
| 5 | Do the easy ones first , the ones that you can definitely answer , rattle those of as quickly as you can so then you know what time you 've got to spend on the difficult ones That 's a very good point . |
| 6 | They should be got rid of as early as possible . |
| 7 | Kleon , in Aristophanes ' Knights , is represented as a ‘ lover of the demos ’ , but Philodemos occurs as a proper name in an Athenian casualty-list of as early as c.460 ( ML 33 ) ; more important , Kleisthenes in the sixth century had taken the demos into partnership , as Herodotus puts it , and Pericles in the 460s had won over the people with jury pay . |
| 8 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 9 | And then fourthly , more and more the orthodox churches placed , played a very significant part in guiding the port of as far as as the assembly was concerned . |
| 10 | ‘ That messenger can pour back the ale near as fast as yourself , Lachlan , ’ she laughed . |
| 11 | The survey shows that crime is not rising anywhere near as fast as police figures suggest . |
| 12 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |
| 13 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 14 | Whatever kind of mix you use to facilitate rapid dispersing when it sinks , thrown bait will not spread anywhere near as efficiently as a loose feed which can be spread accurately from a boat . |
| 15 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 16 | They will certainly be happy at Trent Bridge if Pennett turns out anything like as well as another seamer who had to leave his native county to find success — a certain David Millns . |
| 17 | In reality the distribution was nothing like as even as this . |
| 18 | But the process does n't work ( that is , accord with our intuitions ) anything like as powerfully as it does in music . |
| 19 | That too is a long way off , but nothing like as far as the stars . ’ |
| 20 | For all those who scoffed at the idea of my mastering anything complex like Excel , I 'm pleased to say that I 've bought my first copy , and it 's nothing like as hard as I thought . |
| 21 | Lifting up her pink nightdress her mother had then smacked her behind as hard as she could , afterwards putting her face next to Carla 's and telling her that she had had enough . |
| 22 | MEN-HUNGRY Californians are flocking to enrol in special aerobics classes set up to beat flabby backsides — after a survey showed that many guys rated a pert behind as highly as a pretty face . |
| 23 | They were sinned against as well as sinners . |
| 24 | This involves studying the social relationships people enter into as well as the kinds of knowledge and beliefs , values and sentiments people acquire as part of these social processes . |
| 25 | What had come to the poets in their most serene or passionate moments we glided into as easily as we gathered flowers for Maud or Blanche or Mabel , as we lay in the grass with our eyes divided between the books , the land and the clouds . |
| 26 | I have to scuff the other foot as well , with as near as possible the same weight , to feel good again . |
| 27 | At the same time , chemical drugs cause side-effects which the body then has to deal with as well as the disease . |
| 28 | It shows what was involved in the running of a small yet busy rural station , the variety of incidents that Norman had to deal with as well as the people under his span of control . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The analysis of the unmet need for legal services identified types of problem which were not being dealt with as well as types of people . |