Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 Traditional friendships and rivalries played at least as important a part in this process as purely financial considerations .
2 These settlements felt at least as detached from England as the Massachusetts Bay Company , and of course they had less of a legal foundation , because they had no charters of their own .
3 While Molloy and Carroll use groupings which are slightly different from those used by Bourner and Hamed , the overall picture is clear in that a substantial number of those student groups entering with qualifications other than A-levels perform at least as well , and in some cases better , than those with A level entry .
4 Environment Secretary , Chris Patten , has since tried to compensate for the ill-favoured move with assurances that the new bodies would have the resources to perform at least as well as the old NCC .
5 Most of the research which has been undertaken indicates that , with regard to final degree performance , mature students with non-traditional qualifications perform at least as well as traditionally qualified students with whom they have been compared .
6 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 .
7 c Degree Performance — Most research has indicated that non-traditionally qualified students perform at least as well as , and in some cases considerably better than , traditionally qualified students when degree performance ( measured by percentages achieving ‘ good ’ degrees ) is considered .
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