Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tsar had been enthusiastic about change so long as he remained in the orbit of Elena Pavlovna , but in St Petersburg his convictions or his courage deserted him . |
| 2 | And yet , encouragingly ( for fiction as well as for herself ) , she proved able to rise again : she became the established mistress of a cavalry officer , and by the time she died was the legal wife of an admiral . |
| 3 | It had nothing to do with his empathy , for shield as deep as she would , until the whole World became flatly three-dimensional , the conviction was still there . |
| 4 | First , the process , as outlined in the diagram , is a scheme for research as well as for teaching conventionally considered : each is seen as a concomitant of the other , and it is this which provides for the professional development of the teacher . |
| 5 | More generally on durability , it seems that the requirement that the goods be of merchantable quality is a continuing requirement that they will continue to be of merchantable quality for a reasonable period after delivery so long as they remain in the same apparent state as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . |
| 6 | She had pleaded for help as eloquently as she could . |
| 7 | The only thing she could do was tell him so and leave for home as soon as possible . |
| 8 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 9 | Teams of journalists , just about to go home around l0 p.m. , were told to work through the night as fresh editions were prepared for issue as late as S a.m . |
| 10 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 11 | I promise to sing for Hochhauser as well as I can . |
| 12 | Recruitment gave us little cause for anxiety so long as the general level of recruitment remained high ( Our intake regularly comprised , in a College that offered a total of 14 academic courses , some 12% of the total numbers , 7% in English and 5% in French ) . |
| 13 | Independent soft-commission brokers regard it as an acceptable method of payment so long as they deal at the best price . |
| 14 | End of story as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 15 | No less an eminence than Lord Whitelaw echoed the loyalists ' warnings when he invoked an old Willie-ism in appealing for ‘ a stirring up of apathy as far as gossip , rumour and internal intrigue are concerned . ’ |
| 16 | What is the significance of the tort of negligence as far as computers and software are concerned ? |
| 17 | But of course as far as Britain was concerned , this could only be intervention against France . |
| 18 | But , many of these , er many of these jobs of course as far as the young people were concerned were dead end jobs . |
| 19 | I think that the idea of offsetting imbalances on on one project er with transfer the work in other is certainly very interesting but of course as far as the erm tornado programme is concerned I think it it is now really far too late because production is over apart from the the second Saudi Arabian order and we are really only working on the manufacture of spares and given that the existing suppliers are all tooled up for those and indeed her are way down the learning curve having produced vast quantities of them , it really would n't be economic to transfer any of that work now I do n't think . |
| 20 | And of course that become overlayed by the Gulf situation , but there are clear signs now that the recession has bottomed out but that we 're on the way up again and of course as far as erm terrorism and war is concerned , memories are pretty short . |
| 21 | At the editorial conference Rain brushed aside Holly 's error of judgement as blithely as if it had been her own . |
| 22 | The company has predicted that it may run out of money as early as July without new customers or an infusion of cash from the outside . |
| 23 | The company has predicted that it may run out of money as early as July without new customers or an infusion of cash from the outside . |
| 24 | Some directors were of course friends of administration , and used their powers of patronage as far as possible to supplement the efforts of government , but others , and notably the Elphinstone family , used their Indian patronage to sustain an opposition to Henry Dundas in Scotland . |
| 25 | It was chiefly employed for the production of darker shades of wool as well as for dying silk black , and survived far longer than many other naturally derived dyes . |
| 26 | It was the end of cabaret as far as we were concerned . |
| 27 | With regard to " temporality " ( in the sense in which this concept was used above ) , this can not be regarded as a sufficient condition of particularity so long as it is not shown that temporality alone ( in the indicated sense ) ensures numerical identity of particulars ; and if we are to be able to justifiably claim that it is a necessary condition of particularity , we must first show that there can be no extra-temporal particulars . " |
| 28 | We ca n't make any more hours in the day , but careful planning can allow us to use this time-saving piece of equipment as efficiently as possible . |
| 29 | Peter Calvocoressi has described the principle of Enigma as succinctly as it is possible to do : ‘ The Enigma was an encyphering machine that produced a highly-variable scramble of the 26 letters of the alphabet by passing electric current through a set of moveable rotors , each of which by its internal electrical connections contributed to the overall scramble . ’ |
| 30 | Western agencies are very envious of Mossad because it relies not on huge arrays of computerised technology but on a small group of efficient and dedicated men and women who are not bothered by any form of morality so long as Israel benefits . |