Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must also be borne in mind that in 685 Ecgfrith was able to invade through Strathmore as far as Nechtanesmere ( Dunnichen ) , near Forfar , which will have been in the more northerly kingdom of Circinn ( between the Isla and the Dee ) . |
| 2 | And yet , encouragingly ( for fiction as well as for herself ) , she proved able to rise again : she became the established mistress of a cavalry officer , and by the time she died was the legal wife of an admiral . |
| 3 | It had nothing to do with his empathy , for shield as deep as she would , until the whole World became flatly three-dimensional , the conviction was still there . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | First , the process , as outlined in the diagram , is a scheme for research as well as for teaching conventionally considered : each is seen as a concomitant of the other , and it is this which provides for the professional development of the teacher . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And then , without caring what the headmaster might think , he ran after Maisie as fast as he could . |
| 9 | The MATIF 's other French products , namely the Paris Interbank Offer Rate ( PIBOR ) contracts and the CAC 40 index future , trade at adequate volumes , though by no means as vigorously as the Government Bond derivatives . |
| 10 | He was not going far , by no means as far as Longner , but far enough to be absent when the immediate danger threatened . |
| 11 | She had pleaded for help as eloquently as she could . |
| 12 | The only thing she could do was tell him so and leave for home as soon as possible . |
| 13 | Making for home as swiftly and inconspicuously as possible , no doubt . |
| 14 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 15 | Teams of journalists , just about to go home around l0 p.m. , were told to work through the night as fresh editions were prepared for issue as late as S a.m . |
| 16 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I promise to sing for Hochhauser as well as I can . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Collections for medical supplies were also undertaken and the first British Medical Unit of doctors and nurses , organized by the Spanish Medical Aid Committee , left for Spain as early as August 1936 . |
| 21 | ‘ She wanted to be in the land of make-believe as often and as long as possible … dealing with people and things according to imagination 's formulas , ’ her son Vivian said of her . |
| 22 | End of story as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 23 | He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea . |
| 24 | No less an eminence than Lord Whitelaw echoed the loyalists ' warnings when he invoked an old Willie-ism in appealing for ‘ a stirring up of apathy as far as gossip , rumour and internal intrigue are concerned . ’ |
| 25 | What is the significance of the tort of negligence as far as computers and software are concerned ? |
| 26 | But of course as far as Britain was concerned , this could only be intervention against France . |
| 27 | But , many of these , er many of these jobs of course as far as the young people were concerned were dead end jobs . |
| 28 | I think that the idea of offsetting imbalances on on one project er with transfer the work in other is certainly very interesting but of course as far as the erm tornado programme is concerned I think it it is now really far too late because production is over apart from the the second Saudi Arabian order and we are really only working on the manufacture of spares and given that the existing suppliers are all tooled up for those and indeed her are way down the learning curve having produced vast quantities of them , it really would n't be economic to transfer any of that work now I do n't think . |
| 29 | And of course that become overlayed by the Gulf situation , but there are clear signs now that the recession has bottomed out but that we 're on the way up again and of course as far as erm terrorism and war is concerned , memories are pretty short . |
| 30 | At the editorial conference Rain brushed aside Holly 's error of judgement as blithely as if it had been her own . |