Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What an idiot ! ’ cried Pétain , on learning at Verdun that a battalion commander , having received the order of alert just as the rations arrived , had ordered his men to depart forthwith on empty stomachs ; ‘ He does n't deserve to be a corporal . ’ |
| 2 | Linigan 's goal later left the forlorn Chris Waddle and his Wednesday mates in tears as Wembley became a sea of red-and-white just as it had been after the same Coca-Cola Cup scoreline a month earlier . |
| 3 | [ T ] he term British constitution is near meaningless even as used by British writers . |
| 4 | Heart racing , she felt for the dangling cord and flooded the room with light just as the door closed quietly . |
| 5 | In the centre of the room stood an extremely well-tended brazier before which sat two men in low conversation with broke off as the door opened . |
| 6 | Due to ignorance about the local language , the slogan was expressed in Chinese so as to mean ‘ Pepsi re-awakens your dead relatives ’ . |
| 7 | Young Ferguson 's determined attitude will be required in full today as United attempt a recovery exercise following defeats by Sheffield United and Everton . |
| 8 | Forenames should be printed in full exactly as they appear on your birth certificate and/or passport ; |
| 9 | And there 's a filter light and he said oh you 'll be waiting here ages put it in neutral just as |
| 10 | 2 Locational decisions are taken in general so as to minimise the frictional effects of distance . |
| 11 | So what forces impeded the real wage rate from falling so as to bring into employment those willing to work at the going wage rate ? |
| 12 | The whole object of sex is to have unlike acting on unlike so as to make possible the production of unlike offspring , thus allowing for adaptive change , Darwin argues . |
| 13 | But I had to recognise that there have only been a couple of traumas in ten years and the trouble rate is likely to hot up as I move towards 40 . |
| 14 | Real Evil is to Bad just as Saintliness and Heroism to Decent Behaviour . |
| 15 | ( fl. 1260–1278 ) , cartographic patron , is known for certain only as the author or at least the patron of the late thirteenth-century world map preserved in Hereford Cathedral . |
| 16 | Another print maker of the time , Bellers , referred to by Green sometimes as ‘ Beller ’ was working in the area at the time . |