Example sentences of "[adv] as [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , cost would preclude very frequent advertising via this particular medium , so for frequency of exposure it would be preferable to consider hoardings and transport advertisements ( eg as with the famous Guinness advertisements ) . |
| 2 | Varies : much as for The Rational if you have the binge in your own home and do n't serve champagne ; but can go through the roof if you hire a restaurant and insist on Moet all the way through . |
| 3 | The poems are intended to be read aloud as in the late middle ages , a period to which Darras is keenly attracted because national and linguistic boundaries had not yet hardened . |
| 4 | This is not to say that workers necessarily believed or accepted the new image of employers especially as during the 1950s memories of the pre-war era were clearly resonant . |
| 5 | Can he assure me that the woodlands sold off by the commission will be accessible to all walkers , especially as after the next election a lot of Scottish Labour Members will have a lot of time to do a lot of walking ? |
| 6 | And see below as to the new practice whereby a Form 53 duly executed by a building society may be available on completion . |
| 7 | Taxation The company will be liable to pay stamp duty at 0.5 per cent on the purchase price of the shares , but see para 23.2.5 below as to the proposed abolition of stamp duty . |
| 8 | This habitually hurts the Communists ( 8-10% of the vote ) , is curiously fair to the same-sized Clean Government vote , and fair enough as between the Liberal Democrats and the main Socialist parties . |
| 9 | In Say v. Smith ( 1563 ) 1 Plowd. 269 a lease for a certain term purported to add a term which was uncertain ; the lease was held valid only as to the certain term . |
| 10 | Many were two-storeyed and followed a custom not familiar in the classical period of Greece in that two orders appeared on the front colonnade , Doric on the ground floor and Ionic above as in the rebuilt Stoa of Attalos II of Pergamon in the agora of Athens ( 38 ) . |
| 11 | Educated people had become a despised group , just as during the Cultural Revolution , when they suffered verbal and physical abuse . |
| 12 | But , just as with the other two batches , centres have gone well beyond just the transfer of the remaining old courses into the new system and have proposed a large number of innovative courses and units for validation . |
| 13 | The band of gel containing each protein can either be cut out with a razorblade and the radioactivity in it counted , or the whole gel can be placed against X-ray film and an autoradiogram made , just as with the 2-DG experiment . |
| 14 | First , just as with the previous two categories , a doubt of this kind may well be simple or compound . |
| 15 | Just as on the domestic front , firms are exploring new ways towards greater efficiency and profitability , so too larger firms are looking beyond the frontiers of the UK to the opportunities which present themselves overseas . |
| 16 | For , just as for the similar sailors there would always be another ship , so for the mobile diggers there would always be some other great construction project when the present one finished . |
| 17 | In insisting on the fact that science starts with problems , then , is it not the case that , for the falsificationist just as for the naive inductivist , science starts from observation ? |
| 18 | And just as in the first leg at Ibrox a fortnight ago , there were football fireworks at Elland Road last night . |
| 19 | Soviet specialists identify the main political force within the region as nationalism and , just as in the 1960s countries were judged by their policy position regarding Cuba , the touchstone now is their degree of independence from the United States . |
| 20 | Just as in the real atmosphere , the shortwaves turn out to be unstable . |
| 21 | Just as in the private sector primary education is ‘ preparatory ’ , getting children ready for their public schools , so in the maintained sector we may naturally see primary school in this light . |
| 22 | This is because , to quote HM Treasury ( 1984 , p. 14 ) , ‘ jam today is worth jam tomorrow ’ because , just as in the private sector , ‘ more weight is given to earlier than to later costs and benefits ’ . |
| 23 | Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model , the repulsive effective of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate . |
| 24 | The contractors who mainly tender for local authority contracts would continue to do so , just as in the 1930s , when private building was unrestricted , they built close on 100,000 council houses annually . |
| 25 | In the 1960s feminism was a fairly middle-class affair — some would say it still is — except that in Britain , just as in the earlier suffrage , trade union and legal struggles around the turn of the century , working-class women have been strongly involved in campaigns to do with working conditions and wages , male violence , racism , childcare , housing and community action . |
| 26 | It seems that , just as in the 1870s , the abundance of work masked the new threat . |
| 27 | One quality which that work has in abundance is the Beowulfian ‘ impression of depth ’ , created just as in the old epic by songs and digressions like Aragorn 's lay of Tinúviel , Sam Gamgee 's allusions to the Silmaril and the Iron Crown , Elrond 's account of Celebrimbor , and dozens more . |
| 28 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 29 | So now , here I am , my love , just as in the old times ! ’ |
| 30 | Just as in the 1914 war , the first effect to be felt was that of large numbers of operating and engineering staff joining the forces and London Transport had its own Territorial Unit who went to camp in August 1939 and were sent straight overseas without returning to work . |