Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the very least you should look out for password protection and virus checkers ; a more serious network station would include them as built-in hardware rather than merely as loadable utilities . |
| 2 | All urban groups contrive in maintaining cheap food prices-as well as international capital and contractors who have interests in copper mining in Zambia ( in order to keep the pressure of union militancy for higher wages from squeezing profits ) . |
| 3 | Golfwise , we learn the new reclaimed course was opened in August with the Standard 's comment ‘ tho' not as long as golf courses are now reckoned to be it affords an excellent test ’ . |
| 4 | The Ministry of propaganda did what it could to play down such disasters and tried for as long as possible to preserve the illusion that they were not important , but Fascism now began to lose a lot of its popular support . |
| 5 | Many think that such profits will continue as long as big borrowers run the government . |
| 6 | As soon as deaf and dumb children were recognised as capable of benefiting from secular and religious teaching , their rescue from degradation and the saving of their souls became objects ranking high in the scale of Victorian values . |
| 7 | But again this statement was problematised as soon as specific conditions of production and national/cultural traditions were brought into play . |
| 8 | Labour 's defeat led Neil Kinnock on April 13 to announce that he would resign as party leader as soon as practicable ; Roy Hattersley would also stand down as deputy leader . |
| 9 | Clearly , governments should take this feature of human nature into consideration when formulating tax plans , for it is a sad fact of fiscal life that as soon as new tax is devised an army of tax-avoidance experts is assembled : Though helpful to the few , they are counter-productive for the country as a whole . |
| 10 | Chaot had reportedly been nursing a damaged rudder stock for some time , but as water was coming into the boat in increasing quantities , Boschmann decided to abandon ship as soon as other yachts on passage to the Caribbean could come to his assistance . |
| 11 | iii Thailand : Thailand 's largest department store chain will ban the sale of cigarettes as soon as current stocks run out . |
| 12 | That space will revert to galleries , as soon as central kitchens for a new museum restaurant are built elsewhere in the Met . |
| 13 | Art , it seems , is the perpetual recidivist , always ducking back into the aesthetic as soon as vigilant life averts its gaze . |
| 14 | Lexical access begins as soon as inactive edges are posted onto the Chart by the acoustic front end . |
| 15 | It proved prophetic : as soon as young Ronny was old enough to grip , he had a guitar in his hands . |
| 16 | As soon as political parties rediscovered their roots , dropped their concern to maintain a consensus , and regained a conviction , they were condemned because they were adversarial and offered a real choice . |
| 17 | It was agreed to tighten the Protocol so that CFC production and consumption would be phased out by the year 2000 , and that halon and ‘ other ozone depleting substances ’ should be phased out as soon as feasible . |
| 18 | Plant bulbs of erythroniums , crown imperials , snowdrops and muscari as soon as available . |
| 19 | All the knowledge bases in Hearsay-II , ideally working in parallel and reacting as soon as relevant data appeared , would bombard the blackboard with knowledge , adding and modifying hypotheses , and thus triggering other knowledge sources in turn . |
| 20 | I can see that I 'm going to have to expel as many of you as possible as soon as possible to save myself from going round the bend . ’ |
| 21 | Following his election as President of the Council for National Parks , Chris Bonington called for all the national parks to be set up as separate authorities as soon as possible , in line with the Government 's manifesto promise . |
| 22 | If you are given this task it is best to write the minutes up the same day or as soon as possible after the meeting while the discussion is still fresh in your mind . |
| 23 | I want to get this sorted out , like as soon as possible . |
| 24 | Such aid would commence as soon as possible and would continue in 1991 . |
| 25 | A representation or process which allows sets of word candidates to be considered will allow such early discrimination points to be used as soon as possible , even before the remaining acoustic information about trespass is present . |
| 26 | In such circumstances details should be obtained as soon as possible after the announcement has been made and the Panel consulted . |
| 27 | The coroner , Harold Price , heard at Walthamstow Coroner 's Court in north-east London that baby Kim 's GP and health visitor referred her to the social services on the day she died , said it was vital that such referrals should be made as soon as possible . |
| 28 | ‘ So it will be possible for his father to leave hospital as soon as suitable accommodation is arranged ? ’ |
| 29 | He should go soon , but he is also due for a ‘ flu jab as soon as suitable vaccine is available , which is a bit of a nuisance , as the two things do n't go together very well . |
| 30 | Previously unpolluted ecosystems begin to change almost as soon as extra nitrogen arrives because the plants and animals living there are adapted to low-nitrogen conditions . |