Example sentences of "[adv] as [noun prp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They watched enviously as Nigel and Juliet settled themselves inside . |
| 2 | But Reagan did not appear at North 's trial , much as North and his lawyers tried ; he did not appear until Poindexter 's , in the spring of 1990 . |
| 3 | The magnificent late twelfth-century font in the great church of San Frediano at Lucca shows Pharaoh drowning in the Red Sea ; and he and his troops are dressed up much as Frederick and his knights must have appeared to the Lucchese of the 1160s . |
| 4 | He 'll have to know who 's coming but as I say , I 'm not bothered so long as Arthur and Angela 's there and and dad . |
| 5 | So long as France and Scotland were run by three members of the mighty Guise family , the cardinal and the duke in France and their sister Mary in Scotland , then the only way for the Lords of the Congregation to achieve their religious ends , and prevent Scotland from sinking into provincial status , was to resist the regent . |
| 6 | folks so long as Angela and Arthur get there and |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , all right , ’ Sam grumbled , ‘ but it 's a pity , especially as Anna and I leave tomorrow . |
| 8 | When Frances arrived at her new home , to be followed weeks later by her children and their nanny , she had every hope that the children would be relatively unaffected by her marital breakdown , especially as Sarah and Jane were away at boarding-school . |
| 9 | Aluminium provides a very strong structure but may not perform as well thermally as PVCU while wood requires more maintenance than either . |
| 10 | cabinet , so as Marian that says |
| 11 | It 's 8 o'clock as Kenneth and I strut into Dr McKenzie 's consulting room for the results of the tests . |
| 12 | ‘ For the window-catch , ’ he explained patiently as Loretta and Bridget stared at him . |
| 13 | By hybridizing different varieties of peas , Mendel had shown that some characters are inherited as units on an ‘ all or nothing ’ basis — they did not blend together as Darwin and almost everyone else assumed . |
| 14 | Umpire David Archer , in his 28th Test , was following the flight of the ball and could not give the decision , obvious by instant TV replay to viewers as far away as Johannesburg and London and , more pertinently , to reserve umpire Lloyd Barker and match referee Raman Subba Row in the pavilion . |
| 15 | By this time the couple had six children , two of whom now live as far away as Japan and Cyprus . |
| 16 | The Theatre 's annual panto has become something of a cult , with people coming from as far away as Amsterdam and Geneva to see this year 's ’ Mother Goose . ’ |
| 17 | Sometimes messages come from as far away as Senegal and Pakistan . |
| 18 | The texts in which Judas Thomas appears as Jesus 's twin were at one time widely used by Christian congregations , not only in Egypt and Syria , but also , as we shall see , as far away as Spain and , it seems , Ireland . |
| 19 | PENSIONERS in Grampian will be able to travel on all bus services in the region and on journeys to and from destinations as far away as Inverness and Dundee for only 10p , it was announced yesterday . |
| 20 | Backing all this up is a studio system that churns out ‘ stars ’ for Televisa 's bland pop-music programmes and melodramatic but successful soap operas ( which are watched as far away as China and Russia ) . |
| 21 | Over 10 thousand hunt supporters travelled from as far away as Scotland and Norfolk to protest against Kevin Macnamara 's bill , which is to be debated in the House of Commons tomorrow . |
| 22 | Weavers from as far away as Taunton and Exeter were found in Norwich in 1674 , and many others came in search of employment in this labour-intensive craft . |
| 23 | Madras , for example , imported them from as far away as Ceylon and Malaya . |
| 24 | ‘ We have had patients from as far away as Wales because we specialise in cardiac rhythm problems . |
| 25 | Two days of celebrations were planned for the visitors — some from as far away as Canada and Australia — including a funfair , helicopter rides , fireworks and dancing and numerous side stalls . |
| 26 | ‘ But now we can take children and adults from as far away as Stanhope and Richmond . ’ |
| 27 | Systems will simply not change as easily as Shapland and Hobbs seem to hope ; for police society is extremely conservative and masculine in outlook , and has long reflected the low esteem women are given in wider society , as I will describe in more detail in Chapter 4 . |
| 28 | Just as McBride and Doyle before him , Ciaran Fitzgerald has suffered from the Irish notion that Messiahs work . |
| 29 | Just as Britain and France had fought repeatedly to prevent German competition from developing , so Germany in its turn tried to restrict Polish economic growth and rivalry . |
| 30 | The largest amount of technical co-operation for Asia comes from Japan ( $115m in 1991 ) and , just as Britain and France give priority in aid to the Commonwealth and former French overseas territories for historical , political and economic reasons , Japan has placed priority on Asia . |