Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |
| 2 | I 'm gon na put a mousetrap in there as well as my er kitchen drawer . |
| 3 | All in all , Britain has in recent years received six times as much investment from abroad as Germany , and three times as much as France — a major success story for the UK . |
| 4 | Dr Hazel will take up his appointment on 6 August but may be see in and around the Department before then as he gets to grips with his job . |
| 5 | There was some booze on there as well , but not much , so erm , |
| 6 | I had also proved to myself that I could play football at least as well as the other boys , if not better . |
| 7 | At the Bull & Gate , next door to the Town & Country Club in London 's Kentish Town , the management has been promoting pub rock in a back room with adjoining outer bar for almost as long as the form has existed . |
| 8 | I have had a word with Swan and he has agreed to become your personal private aeroplane for just as long as you remain small enough to fly on his back . ’ |
| 9 | At this Pennethorne was instructed to take steps to purchase the remainder of the property authorized under the 1855 Act as soon as possible . |
| 10 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 11 | as well that I personally a agree with the lady over there as I 'm now , with all the talk of hormo , hormone replacement wonder what it was ? |
| 12 | In a dream , she saw him skid to a halt , taking in the scene at once as it must have appeared — his brother bending over his fiancée — and , thought Sarella in dismay , taking in my submissive expression as I stupidly allow this dark monster to maul me . |
| 13 | The proposition that industrial co-operatives can create and distribute wealth at least as well and probably better than the traditional forms of industry had already been argued from cause to probable effect . |
| 14 | It is his job as well as his misfortune to seek to reduce to writing concepts and ideas fashioned and implanted by somebody else . |
| 15 | We learnt the next day he had had to hand in his uniform and get off the job as fast as he could . |
| 16 | I 'll find another post as soon as you 're better . ’ |
| 17 | Timing is also of the essence — flowers can be sent to you through the post as soon as the special event is over , but the best option is to be able to press them on the very day that they are used . |
| 18 | Hoping for another letter from Bill , I began watching our post as closely as Dickie . |
| 19 | and the press became more hostile — The Times and the Morning Post as well as the Liberal papers . |
| 20 | In the learned hierarchy the term — literally " one who is assiduous , constant in attendance ’ was used for a candidate for office at any stage in his career , for the muderris or kadi awaiting his next post as well as for the beginner , the term in Ottoman usage perhaps reflecting the fact that the candidates were in constant attendance theoretically upon the sultan but in fact more usually upon the kazaskers , in whose hands lay the responsibility for nominating men for most posts until near the end of the sixteenth century . |
| 21 | I tell you what as well with directions to that place on there as well . |
| 22 | This psychology must have served capitalism at least as well as a desire for the things of the market . |
| 23 | The British Tommy 's good humour will be appreciated by the Burman of today as it was during the days of the Rangoon riots in 1939 . |
| 24 | Mr McQuaker said he had just left work at the Haughton Road service station at 9pm as he had done for the last 25 years when the youths pounced . |
| 25 | While he has his backers the nature of Mr Birt 's shake-up at the corporation , introducing distinctly Thatcherite market-forces into an organisation at least as set in its ways as the civil service , but many times more internally political , means there are many ready to use the episode to raise other questions against him . |
| 26 | A trade can only be carried out within one firm if the market maker of that firm offers a price at least as good or better than that offered on the general market . |
| 27 | just pure inset , and just headquarters , that 's all they 're interested in , not whether he knows his job or not , not whether he could give advice because he has no control over whatever comes into that shop , he does n't decide we 're not having these T-shirts in or , or we 're not having these suits in because really they 're a load of rubbish , headquarters decides it , all he does is put a nice little display out , usually , and it 's shown how to do it by headquarters and so on , these people come round and show them what to do and so on , do all that , in fact he 's as much expertise in there as I have or you have , anybody could literally with a bit of training in the company way of doing things |
| 28 | This is proved by a letter from one Mr. Wildhagen to Sir William le Fleming and dated the 19 October 1721 : " hellip ; your honr know it is impossible for the men to work att your Fells of Conistone in the winter season for long as their houses are unbuilt , they haveing so far to come and go to thir lodgings … |
| 29 | Calendars , it seems , have almost become McGairy 's stock in trade for here as openers there are the original watercolours for Great Ayton and Saltburn Beach both selling at £160 to set alongside the sepia reproduction of Gunnerside and Staithes and Cowbar from the ICI Kennelix Oilfield Calendar , also of 1992 . |
| 30 | She sucked her breath in angrily as she watched . |