Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were tubed to two bottles of pale green dye which , under weighted pressure , travelled up the lymph channels as far as my lower abdomen , filling the infected nodes , thus making any change in size or behaviour easy to spot on X-ray . |
| 2 | Tony Mason , who has weighed up both the composition and the behaviour of Victorian and Edwardian football crowds as carefully as the sketchy evidence permits , suggests that skilled workers were disproportionately dominant within the crowd . |
| 3 | ‘ That legislation has yet to be introduced to Parliament , ’ said Mr Naish adding that delays could give rise to further problems and he had urged Mr Howard to get it onto the statute books as urgently as possible . |
| 4 | The enormity of this lie was so great that its ripples did in fact spread out one of the lower astral planes as far as the Magical Quarter across the river , where it picked up tremendous velocity from the huge standing wave of power that always hovered there and bounced wildly across the Circle Sea . |
| 5 | Care budgets devolved to Social Work Practice Teams as far as possible . |
| 6 | Gradually , these gaps are being filled , with the aim of allowing clients to conduct ‘ open account ’ trading with export customers as easily as they now do with domestic ones . |
| 7 | Elections for district , city , village and neighbourhood councils as well as for assistant judges were held on May 7 , 1989 . |
| 8 | In ex parte Norwich City Council , the local authority were not proceeding with the sale of council houses as expeditiously as the minister wished . |
| 9 | From this source they spread by exchange networks as far as north Poland and the Ile-de-France over a radius as the crow flies of more than 1700 km . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , military pilots are still required to qualify for an Airline Transport Pilots Licence soon after joining the Branch if they do not already possess one , since much of their investigating career is going to be closely concerned with civil regulations and civil operating techniques as well as with the technicalities of flying . |
| 11 | SYRIA expressed a strong desire yesterday to resume Middle East peace negotiations as soon as possible and the United States said it would play a more active role in the talks than in the past . |
| 12 | Of course , if prices generally do rise , the value of money falls with all sorts of unpleasant consequences for the classes who can not raise their money incomes as fast as others , and , in the case of Britain particularly , for the national balance of payments . |
| 13 | It can include telephone and telex numbers and lead times as well as names , positions and addresses . |
| 14 | Since Mao they 've definitely taken the view that they should stabilize their population numbers as soon as possible , and they now have the most restrictive policies in relation to families , deferral of marriage , penalties for those couples that in the towns have more than one child erm and this is leading to a dramatic reduction in crude birthrate . |
| 15 | Any theft must be reported to the local police and Risley Transport Services as soon as possible . |
| 16 | The idea has its parallel in the ever-higher smoke stacks and ever-longer sewage outfalls which were designed to export pollution problems as far as possible from their source . |
| 17 | The idea has its parallel in the ever-higher smoke stacks and ever-longer sewage outfalls which were designed to export pollution problems as far as possible from their source . |
| 18 | It was in part dissatisfaction with the methods of elite theories as well as with its conclusions that led to the development of pluralism in political science ; this we now go on to consider . |
| 19 | ‘ We thought it would make a nice Christmas present and show our borrowers that we are passing on the benefits of the recent rate reductions as soon as possible , ’ says Stratton . |
| 20 | Guns come out from under the suede coats as fast as at the OK Corral . |
| 21 | Although Germany had steel mills as early as the 1780s and a railway line by 1847 , it was still able to learn from the mistakes and avoid the dead-ends of its competitor neighbours . |
| 22 | Meeting student leaders as recently as March 22 , Momoh had rejected the demands as " absurd " . |
| 23 | Certainly the name Borrow appears in Parish records as early as 1690 . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that sea-floor sediments as deep as 1000 metres may be disturbed . |
| 25 | Alternatively , policy-making elites may choose to co-opt organized interest groups into compliance with government policies as far as possible by creating sham ‘ corporatist ’ institutions and ideologies . |
| 26 | Naturally I was very keen to get back into cutter activities as soon as possible , but it was year before I managed to establish myself into cutter crewing duties once more . |
| 27 | But such remarks were commonplace and were made by ardent church reformers as often as by anyone else . |
| 28 | The recession has hit the Church Commissioners as badly as everyone else . |
| 29 | Even so , BBC2 remained , as the BBC told the Annan Committee ( p. 90 ) , ‘ the channel for initiation , for large scale departures as well as for tryouts and experiments ’ . |
| 30 | The Pentagon believes that , using existing technology , the Russians could deploy laser weapons as early as the mid-1980s . |