Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the State Department and the White House both set crisis management operations in train , and President Bush urgently conferred with top officials , FMLN statements — that the guests , except for the armed Americans , were not hostages and were free to go as soon as a ceasefire was arranged — were almost ignored . |
| 2 | Yeah , but I mean , be honest , you , you say that , but people have got to be prepared to adjust as well . |
| 3 | I was careful to behave as well as possible , to persuade the King to give me my freedom . |
| 4 | Well they 're easy to destroy as well but we wo n't we wo n't go into that . |
| 5 | While there are some differences between these various studies , the broad conclusion which emerges is that while in the areas of arts , social sciences , education and business studies mature students perform better than their younger counterparts , in areas such as science , engineering , health related studies and medicine there is some evidence that they are less likely to perform as well . |
| 6 | or you could think it also true that I think wh what you think you 're supposed to like as well . |
| 7 | If the building is closed up and not properly ventilated , the perfect conditions for dry rot are likely to arise as soon as the weather gets warm . |
| 8 | If it is thought that the growers of any kind of grain in any part of the world have been losing money , and are likely to sow a smaller area for a future harvest ; it is argued that prices are likely to rise as soon as that harvest comes into sight , and its shortness is manifest to all . |
| 9 | The fish affected continued to grow as well as the others in the shoal . |
| 10 | Well I think it 's reasonable to say as well it was one that was deserved was n't it ? |
| 11 | " I think I shall be able to go as well as the others now . |
| 12 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
| 13 | There may have been no understanding whatever of the concept of not being able to see as well as other people . |
| 14 | At this very moment in time we are on the verge of having video telephones through which users will be able to see as well as talk to the person at the other end . |
| 15 | Petards were unreliable and apt to detonate as soon as a match came anywhere near the fuse , resulting in the hapless sapper being blown up or ‘ hoist by his own petard ’ . |
| 16 | In the building accounts of the Queen 's College , Oxford , Townesend is referred to as ‘ architecto ’ whereas his father , who had worked there previously , was described as ‘ lapicidae ’ , a distinction which reflects the fact that , like others of his kind , he was certainly able to design as well as to build ; but the extent to which he did so unaided is not entirely clear , many of the projects in Oxford at this time evidently being the work of more than one mind . |
| 17 | Kerry ) , deliberately developed the breed as a small animal able to fatten as well as to give house milk , probably by selection from the local mountain dairy cattle , and gave his name to the breed by the early nineteenth century . |
| 18 | Under this system students are also able to graduate as soon as they have met the requirements of an award and do not have to wait until July each year . |
| 19 | In other words , it might be argued that wealth , whether inherited or earned , is not sufficient to give real power , and neither are the traditional status groups such as the clergy , the military and intellectuals able to command as before . |
| 20 | We feel that boys , including ourselves , are able to dance as well as anyone , may that be male or female . |
| 21 | We feel that boys , including ourselves , are able to dance as well as anyone , may that be male or female . |
| 22 | Obviously waves may have frequencies of intermediate magnitude and so be difficult to classify as either destructive or constructive . |
| 23 | It 's perhaps fair to say as well that if if er er a member of the public knows that P C Smith or P C Jones is his local policeman , he would prefer to see P C Smith or P C Jones . |
| 24 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 25 | After all this it should not be surprising to find as well that the man in charge of Provincial 's finances is also responsible for strategic planning and overseas operations spanning Kenya , East Asia and Australia . |
| 26 | Bloody expensive to use as well ! |
| 27 | But if each can be honest about themselves , try to understand the other , and be ready to give as well as take , they will be able to capitalize on all the benefits of facing life together as a stable and mature couple , for the second half of their journey . |
| 28 | But if we have everything ready to leave as soon as I get back from chess and I 'll make sure I leave promptly if we can come straight away then , with a bit of luck we 'll be on to the M twenty five b by half past four so we might |
| 29 | Harriet Shakespeare and the policemen had begun to creep closer , ready to run as soon as the first shot was fired . |
| 30 | A letter inviting ‘ President Clinton ’ to speak at the prestigious Oxford Union debating society was typed and ready to send as soon as news of his victory became known . |