Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | We plan to install one of the ‘ Amstrad ’ draft printers so as to provide some draft printing capability as soon as possible , and to consider further the possibility of replacing the heavily-used Epson printer next financial year . |
| 2 | ‘ Health services ’ , writes Hay in his discussion of social reforms during this period , ‘ would ensure that the worker was returned to the labour force as soon as possible after illness . |
| 3 | Spell out your action plan as precisely as possible so that you are clear what you have to do and that it is realistic . |
| 4 | Finally , it says that it intends to seek a full listing on the Stock Exchange as soon as possible , following the Stock Exchange 's recommendation to discontinue the Unlisted Securities Market by 1995 , which , Bland notes , is not very liquid anyway . |
| 5 | I am not medical or a scientist , but can guess that the garlic affects the whole of the blood stream as far as the insect is concerned . |
| 6 | I 'm no I 'm no speed merchant as far as maths is concerned |
| 7 | They left Kabrit on 20 November and for the first stage of the journey were able to bowl down the coast road as far as Agedabia , by then firmly in British hands . |
| 8 | Close relations were also maintained with Syria ( which concluded a friendship treaty with the USSR in 1980 ) , and with India , which signed a friendship treaty as early as 1971 and which remained one of the closest of the USSR 's non-communist allies under Indira Gandhi and her successor Rajiv . |
| 9 | However , the offence is so serious , and parents and car owners are so concerned , that the House should not delay but ought to place the Bill on the statute book as soon as possible . |
| 10 | With the help of Opposition Members , who have generously said that they will help , we hope to see the Bill on the statute book as soon as possible . |
| 11 | Those who embraced this point of view accepted Heisenberg 's uncertainty principle as wholeheartedly as anyone , but for them it was a statement , not of indeterminacy , but of ignorance . |
| 12 | To set the scene for this latter article , and as a coda to the two special issues on hypertext that have just gone by , the writer of this editorial offers the following thoughts ( though these are definitely under the guise of Editorial Privilege , and from a non-expert viewpoint as far as hypertext is concerned ) . |
| 13 | And off she went , driving carefully , through South London , and east , and under the river , and north , and up the A113 , towards the Garfield Centre , thinking of Brian frying up the cold boiled potatoes for himself and their son Sam , chopping parsley , frying eggs and bacon , delicious ; Brian handled the frying pan as confidently as he handled the car , eggs never broke for Brian , he had a firm grasp of the material world , of pan handles and gear levers and of her own warm body , of garden spades and wayward boilers , of carving knives and power drills and saws and scissors and invisible screws ; he treated all these things as his friends and allies , an Ideal Husband , she sometimes teased him : and yet , and yet , he spent his days and his nights teaching abstractions , he spent his time with words , words , words . |
| 14 | He escaped with Bean from the tea table as soon as possible and slipped out of the house , heading back for the open spaces of the industrial estate . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , the company was still valued at more than £1bn on Stock Market as late as last September . |
| 16 | However that did not affect the central question of whether those stock dividends were to comprise a capital or income receipt as far as the beneficiary was concerned . |
| 17 | My master is anxious to take my mistress south as soon as possible . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ In the present climate , I think people will be under quite a lot of pressure to begin building work as soon as possible when an answer has been given , ’ said principle officer for child services , Cliff James . |
| 19 | In The Radio 4 Debate the motion was that the Lords are an anachronism and we should unplug the oxygen tent as soon as possible . |
| 20 | She had settled in Thrush Green as snugly as a bird in its nest , and so had Jeremy . |
| 21 | You must think yourselves lucky to be able to go to Thrush Green as often as you do . ’ |
| 22 | Bernard , acutely aware of the volatility of the fashion market , was convinced the company must diversify into the more stable home furnishing sector as soon as possible . |
| 23 | That sum was the Bundesliga transfer record as recently as last season and has only risen to £3.3m since Mattheus Sammer left Italy for Borussia Dortmund . |
| 24 | Erm obviously to look for the start of a campaign team as soon as possible . |
| 25 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 26 | Blackpool had been keen to develop the Promenade tramway as far as St. Annes , but this was defeated and the blue buses took over . |
| 27 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 28 | Captain Duro was anxious to start the return voyage as soon as possible in order to avoid the equinoctial gales , and now that he had given his permission , Gerald saw no reason to delay his daughter 's departure further . |
| 29 | Table 9.6 shows data for the sterling effective exchange rate as well as for other currencies . |
| 30 | ‘ … we find it unfortunate that Upjohn failed to respond at all readily to requests made by the Licensing Authority as early as 1990 , that they should carry out a new post-marketing surveillance study ’ . |