Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [subord] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 He could remember a time when he had fallen asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow , and when he had always had a healthy appetite .
2 The place smelled awful as soon as she moved in .
3 Later Justices of the Peace were appointed and as time passed they were given administrative as well as judicial duties to perform .
4 The interventionist state has political as well as economic ill-effects by inducing unrealistic expectations on the part of voters and electoral trade-offs between parties bargaining for votes .
5 This remarkable piece has historic as well as artistic interest , for the intricately worked base is the only contemporaneous illustration of the town 's fortifications as they were after their re-building in 1675–88 .
6 This required the active incorporation of the mass of the population to serve the nation , at the expense of many lives , and it was a process which necessarily involved cultural as well as military and civilian social administration to an extent which survived the ending of the war .
7 These processes involve cognitive as well as interactive skills and , therefore , the exercising of professional expertise and judgement can not be eradicated from the process .
8 This is the type of garment that always looks good as soon as you put it on and makes you feel comfortable and at ease , whatever the occasion .
9 Employers have a statutory duty to provide a safe workplace and it 's only a matter of a judge 's interpretation to decide that that should include mental as well as physical health .
10 The in-house system is an integrated personnel and payroll system and contains current as well as historical absence and employment information .
11 Once cooled refrigerate as soon as you can .
12 All education has informal as well as formal content , and elite routes generate cultural capital through the ‘ social and cultural unity among those who possess superior life chances ’ ( Scott , 1982 , p. 162 ) .
13 This continuity has practical as well as expressive value , because it facilitates the organic style of change I mentioned a moment ago as a practical advantage .
14 Eliot 's demand for difficulty , in retrospect , by now looks perverse as well as obscure .
15 Such arguments serve to remind us that scientific management has right-wing as well as left-wing critics .
16 For this faction , the term ‘ just war ’ has secular as well as religious appeal , an ambiguity which permits them to communicate their cause in direct fashion to left-wing British and right-wing American groups at one and the same time .
17 ‘ Yes , ’ he is saying , ‘ I stopped worrying as soon as I saw John Mortimer 's face . ’
18 This struggle is the inevitable result of disciplines which have no claim to the validation procedures of the pure sciences and involve non-discursive as well as discursive practices and forms of knowledge .
19 And so black psychologists ’ concentration in them has positive as well as negative implications .
20 The protector of all such " weak persons " was the king and so such disputes invited royal as well as ecclesiastical intervention .
21 By using verbal as well as non-verbal signals we have the chance to test our pictures of each other .
22 You know the problem with putters , if they do n't feel right as soon as you pick 'em up and swing them , you might as well forget it .
23 I assure my hon. Friend that I shall do that as soon as I can .
24 He did enough to show me he can do that as well as Lukic .
25 being a charity we have to raise money for what we need and the comic will do that as well as teach youngsters about wildlife
26 No one else could have done this as well as Lanfranc with his orderly mind and power of decisive action .
27 Individual tasks can do this as well as pair or group tasks .
28 It is important to use moisturizing cream day and night so that the skin should feel soft as well as looking good .
29 Guidance was given on the government and academic organization of polytechnics : the system of government needed to be suitable for institutions serving national as well as regional and local needs , and to be attractive to staff who would be able to ‘ share fully in their government and management as academic communities ’ .
30 Hopes are still expressed that old manufacturing industries will re-employ all those previously made redundant as soon as the economic recession is over .
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