Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( v ) Most libels of any gravity directed at the conduct of a local authority would sufficiently identify the councillors or officers concerned in or responsible for that conduct so as to enable individual councillors or officers to sue for libel just as , in this case , Mr. Bookbinder has brought proceedings in respect of the libels complained of by the council . |
| 2 | Despite her success , Buchi Emecheta still feels about this country much as she did when she first arrived 30 years ago , on a grey March morning in Liverpool . |
| 3 | Additionally , if you have received treatment or advice for a medical condition during the 2 years before taking up the Hospital Income Plan , your cover for the condition commences after you have been insured for 24 months or if you are admitted to hospital for that condition during this period then as soon after the 24 months as you have been free of in-patient treatment for 12 months . |
| 4 | For a wood glue-to be effective it has to penetrate down the tubes for some distance so as to get hold of the undamaged wood . |
| 5 | In fact it had been open for some time already as had half a dozen other places within easy walk because America believes in man 's inalienable right to eat whenever he is awake . |
| 6 | He 's been making himself part of the England scene by acting as spy for some time now as already noted on the list . |
| 7 | Think of each mask alone as being on a chain . |
| 8 | The smugness in his voice was here too , in the studied way he licked upper and lower lips with his tongue before he spoke , and tapped the fingertips of each hand together as he judged the broken man at his feet . |
| 9 | By a summons dated 30 April 1991 the defendants applied to the judge in chambers for directions as to whether notwithstanding the order of Morland J. , they were at liberty to comply with the notice and , if so , on what forms if any ; and , further or alternatively , variation or discharge of that order so as to allow them to comply with the notice . |
| 10 | What that exercise predicts is that there should be particles mediating the influence of that field just as the photon mediates the electromagnetic field . |
| 11 | TWO fishermen were rescued by the crew of another vessel yesterday as their boat began sinking five miles off Aberdeen . |
| 12 | With fine timing we arrived , parking under cover of some distance so as not to arouse suspicion . |
| 13 | But other things bound the experience of this group together as well . |
| 14 | This gives the ratio of Venus 's mass to that of the Sun , and the mass of the Sun is obtained from the dominant elliptical part of the orbit of any planet just as the mass of a planet can be determined from the orbit of a satellite around it . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 16 | But we 're mighty anxious now we 've come all this way to get out into that jungle just as soon as we can and start hunting . " |
| 17 | You and your staff will maintain the well-established convention whereby ministers do not concern themselves with the detailed information which may be obtained by the Security Service in particular cases , but are furnished with such information only as may be necessary for the determination of any issue on which guidance is sought . |
| 18 | We certainly , if you look at the breakdown of our sales er , we only sell about a hundred and fifty er , million pounds worth er , of goods and services in Asia , Pacific erm , we would certainly like to make acquisitions in that area just as we did in North America er , in the seventies and eighties and we have now small Pearson er , office , for instance in Tokyo , it 's quite slow , erm , er , in that area but certainly we 're on the lookout for acquisitions in , in Asia , Pacific . |
| 19 | The aim of this study is to revise the abyssal ophiuroids of the North Atlantic portraying the species likely to occur within this area so as to facilitate identification by the non specialist . |
| 20 | In the Anglo-Italian Cup , group A , the other game being played in this country tonight as I was telling you a short while ago , Bolton nil , Brescia one , the goal scorer after three . |
| 21 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 22 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 23 | This is scarcely surprising , since we may pride ourselves on the fact that freedom of speech has existed in this country perhaps as long as , if not longer than , it has existed in any other country in the world . |
| 24 | Every village school in Eritrea is designed in this way so as to prevent detection from the air by the MIGs and Antanov bombers of the Ethiopian air force . |
| 25 | Racial and cultural difference are addressed in this context both as determinants in the production of meanings and as a means of putting the concerns of White Western feminist film criticism into perspective . |
| 26 | The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible . |
| 27 | Otherwise you are likely to find that your puppy will continue in this manner so as to attract your attention . |
| 28 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 29 | Cleansed in some sense mentally as well as physically by their wash , and fortified by bacon and eggs in the police canteen , the two policemen stood in front of a big wall map of the Thames . |
| 30 | Then we can sail off on a reach in either direction just as we saw Suzanne doing . |