Example sentences of "[adv] as [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | He came here as quite a young man , perhaps twelve , fourteen years ago , but we never knew anything about him , where he came from , who is parents were . |
| 32 | I believe there are several thousand States in Ireland now and I see the sense of locality that has always dominated here as basically a time-serving National identity . |
| 33 | The Government spends nearly £3,000 million a year on civil research and development — at least as high a proportion of national income as the Japanese or Americans . |
| 34 | However , it should be noted that the demands of the National Curriculum , assessment and LMS have been such as to require the Authority to maintain at least as high a centralized INSET profile as previously , and present provision retains , alongside the new agenda of concerns dictated by the 1988 Education Reform Act ( ERA ) , many of the courses and themes established during the PNP period . |
| 35 | And the issue is not simply that of deteriorating staff-student ratios , which has attracted so much attention , but at least as much a question of capital investment . |
| 36 | An observer summed up the typical bourgeois of Lille as a man who ‘ fears God , but above all his wife , and reads the Echo du Nord ’ , and this is at least as likely a reading of the facts of bourgeois family life as the male-formulated theory of female helplessness and dependence , sometimes pathologically exaggerated into the masculine dream , and occasional practice , of the child-wife selected and formed by the future husband . |
| 37 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |
| 38 | ln the early 1930s part of my childhood was spent at Redcar on Teesside , then as now a down at heel seaside resort surrounded by steel works and wind swept dunes . |
| 39 | He was ultimately as much an oracle , a high priest , a pope , a spiritual leader , as he was a king . |
| 40 | Some of these figures resulted from litigants pressing the church into action , but as a record of defiance , and presumably as just a fraction of total excommunications in those years , they are unquestionably revealing . |
| 41 | In the procedure of associated spaces , however , link B is seen computationally as only a special entity in the reference space , containing all the entities describing link A. Rotation of A by 450 is achieved by rotating the entire sub-model space . |