Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | We are very much aware that initiatives involving major revisions of the curriculum have significant resource implications for institutions as well as for SCOTVEC and , for this reason , we have decided that a phased introduction would be appropriate for the revision of advanced courses . |
2 | And there will be plenty for fans as well as for musos , with events ranging from big shows at Birkenhead Town Hall and the Floral Pavilion to Sunday brunches at the Mersey Ferries booking halls and late-night concerts at Birkenhead Priory . |
3 | Gold was certainly used as a decorative inlay for bronzes as early as Shang times , but precious metals only began to be highly valued in China comparatively late and then as an outcome of influence from inner Asia and the west . |
4 | He was the first Roman Catholic director-general of the BBC , taking over at a difficult time , when the Ulster issue was posing serious dilemmas for broadcasters as well as for politicians . |
5 | Iveco requests that the process of European integration should advance to the point where suitable pan-European structures will be established for companies as well as for markets . ’ |
6 | He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea . |
7 | The Palestinians refuse to draw the line between the interim agreement on self-government and the final determination of borders as sharply as Israel does . |
8 | Consequently , it has been closed off and is out of bounds as far as the Exhilarator goes . ’ |
9 | Women in developing countries are generally undereducated because young girls are often taken out of schools as early as possible to allow their mothers to work whilst they take care of younger siblings . |
10 | In my experience most A&R guys are not so much unhelpful as just plain uninterested ; the ones showing interest perform the most agile of U-turns as quickly as a week later . |
11 | The treatment is effective for a wide range of illnesses as well as for allergies and hay fever . |
12 | Counterintuitive though this may seem , AI might help us understand the perceptual experiences of kingfishers as well as kings . |
13 | Companies were advised to get out of dogs as soon as possible . |
14 | Secondly , what would happen to the profitability of Britain 's least successful credit operators if it reacted to the credit demand signals of customers as rapidly as it responds to their credit risk signals ? |
15 | This is not a satisfactory state of affairs as far as a religion is concerned , and when this condition is reached it is in decline . |
16 | My objective — and , of course , this was one imposed upon me by my professionalism and by the need to clear the ground of rabbits as thoroughly as possible — was first to dispose of the bolting rabbits and then to continue by digging out as many of the remainder as possible . |
17 | In fact they lick up the nectar by flicking their tongues rapidly into the flower , in the case of hummingbirds as swiftly as thirteen times a second . |
18 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
19 | Now that scientific tests of the new sidehandled baton have been completed , they will be tried out by a number of forces as soon as possible . |
20 | The regular adherents of the congregation are about 100 ; the average attendance from 150 to 200 , and the number of members as far as can be ascertained about 25 , but this can form no criterion of what the congregation may become under a regular and thorough ministry . |
21 | Gabriel followed the even pattern of pawmarks as far as possible : they carried his eye up to a distant knoll crowned with trees and wounded with great white scars of bare chalk . |
22 | NERC is in a situation in which it can not please every department , and it can only achieve a limited degree of acceptability by adopting the negative posture of being seen not to be unfair to particular departments ( hence spreading small numbers of grants as widely as possible ) . |
23 | The Centre can provide for individuals as well as for groups and parties . |
24 | The immediate future of the school was discussed at an emergency meeting this morning , the intention is to get the ninety pupils back behind desks as soon as possible . |
25 | Throughout everything , the divisions of class act as trenches as surely as those dug by the soldiers . |
26 | Eddie was staring at her with eyes as hard as granite but all she said was , ‘ You 'll have to go in at the front door . |
27 | I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom . |
28 | Most people do n't actually go into things as deeply as we do . |
29 | About a quarter of the refugees are living in camps and the government plans to incorporate then into co-operatives as soon as possible . |
30 | There must be other joint initiatives with publishers as well as with the media and the telecommunications industries which also might prove mutually beneficial . |