Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] as [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's my bit of luck — the trust fund thrown in as well as your extraordinary mama . |
| 2 | While some performed well — although not as well as their intellectual peers who were from better-off homes — the vast majority of the poorest children gained few , if any , qualifications from their schooling . |
| 3 | Well , they could play too , and if not as well as their director , that is hardly a criticism . |
| 4 | Certainly not as well as her books sold a few years ago . |
| 5 | Some individuals have no worries ; they have planned the event for years , made maximum pension contributions , carefully invested their savings , covered themselves and family in insurance policies , budgeted ahead and can even gleefully tell you about the exotic round-the-world trip they intend to take just as soon as their new life begins . |
| 6 | Instead , the females may help their young by placing their eggs where the minute hatchlings will find food just as soon as their heads emerge from the egg capsule . |
| 7 | Then , as she and Silvia packed up their things after their final English lesson , she told the other girl , ‘ I 'll be leaving tomorrow , just as soon as your exam is over . ’ |
| 8 | She would get to work on Maxie just as soon as his presence at home should coincide with hers ; she had not seen him since returning from the tea , except when crawling wearily into bed . |
| 9 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 10 | Where Without Walls might be more fittingly titled Without Arts , the BBC2 equivalent , Arena , has a thing about promoting unknown artists who disappear forever as soon as their hour on screen is done . |
| 11 | Every time that he had been inside the Citadel he went home as soon as his day 's work was finished and scrubbed his body from toe to scalp . |
| 12 | All the same , with proper professionalism , I checked my weaponry thoroughly as well as my appearance . |
| 13 | He was her last resort now as well as his brother 's . |
| 14 | The extensive discussion of the topic in Chapter 2 led to rejection of the account offered by Wagner for habituation , but this may be just as well as far as his theory of latent inhibition is concerned . |
| 15 | Her hard-fought for earnings were at stake here as well as her own self-confidence — she had to get it right . |
| 16 | The ballerina has to behave as graciously and confidently as her partner . |
| 17 | But almost as soon as our church team was formed , with the desire of being a marvellous example of love in action , we found we could not get on together , let alone with the world ! |
| 18 | Hong Kong casts a spell over the visitor almost as soon as your aircraft weaves its way between high-rise blocks to land at the chaotic airport . |
| 19 | He refers in passing to several studies ( Walker ; 1975 , Smithers and Griffin ; 1986A and Smithers and Robinson ; 1989 ) which show that older entrants even those with non-standard qualifications perform at least as well as their younger counterparts . |
| 20 | Tommaso was sure he would be sent there as soon as his training was over . |
| 21 | I 'm gon na put a mousetrap in there as well as my er kitchen drawer . |
| 22 | Then as soon as her grandfather had died , she was sent out to earn as a butcher 's shop girl . |
| 23 | And then as soon as our office gets that it 'll be two to three weeks . |
| 24 | Sad stories of fathers making fortunes out of their pretty daughters by marrying them off to antiquated old men again and again as their husbands wither and die , leaving them with fortune after fortune . |
| 25 | He began to write his own verse whilst still quite young , shyly at first , correcting again and again as his ‘ second thoughts blushed over his first attempts ’ . |
| 26 | I reached the flat just after so helped her carry clean sheets and towels upstairs as well as my luggage and B. The two bedrooms in the flat are small — ‘ compact ’ in estate agency jargon I expect ! — and the bathroom is very nice with a washing machine in it . |
| 27 | It was a movement she 'd made a million times before , yet as soon as her fingers came into contact with his thick , silky hair she felt a jolt as though an electric current had shot right through her , making her start back in surprise . |
| 28 | You have not crash dieted or fasted and therefore your weight is very unlikely to pile back on as soon as your goals have all been attained . |