Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were allowed to take the boat out ourselves by then as long as we wore life-jackets and we thought we might do that , later ; get in some fishing or just some pottering around . |
| 2 | a parent , I have two other children , I 've had one since then as well . |
| 3 | The duke had a record of close cooperation with the Yorkist establishment , something at least as important in the context of 1483 as his much-emphasized loyalty to his brother . |
| 4 | The duke had a record of close cooperation with the Yorkist establishment , something at least as important in the context of 1483 as his much-emphasized loyalty to his brother . |
| 5 | Last Christmas , having loads of time on my hands over the holidays , I decided to take the plunge and make one at least as nice theirs . |
| 6 | The two girls died when the car ploughed into them from behind as they skipped along a pavement . |
| 7 | If you and Mr Fairfax come to my office at ’ — he glanced at his watch — ‘ four o'clock this afternoon , bringing those items with you , we will regard the subject of your withholding them until now as closed . |
| 8 | But we seen them over here as well ! |
| 9 | I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) . |
| 10 | The examination papers written in Victoria 's large , even script were considered adequate ; her interview was unexceptional , although the examiners at Girton College recognised her at once as she had been universally described by all who knew her : an extremely pleasant girl of excellent character . |
| 11 | Well just , I put it under here as well |
| 12 | I mean , th that 's kind of you 're you 're seeing it from above as it were , why they should be forced out of the manifest if there 's some other reason ? |
| 13 | The key issue is not how to reduce the observer 's role to zero ( or even to an absolute minimum ) but simply how to render it at least as explicit , as clear , and as quantitatively specifiable as any other aspect of the system under study , so that other observers will know how to look at the same phenomena from the same perspective , should they care to do so . ’ |
| 14 | Willig ( 1978 ) has proposed an alternative scheme which can make everyone at least as well off as under the average cost regime . |
| 15 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 16 | Rather he thinks that ants ' social organisation and skills should make them at least as rewarding to study as the birds and mammals on which animal behaviourists have focused . |
| 17 | The strategy is to sell the plug compatibles for less than the price of the equivalent IBM machine but to make them at least as powerful , or to provide more for the same money . |
| 18 | All of them at least as concerned to limit the damage as to assist the inquiry . |
| 19 | They could protect themselves at least as well by simply keeping their heads down . ’ |