Example sentences of "[adv] as [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So as far back as 1974 it was spelt out by the industry itself . |
| 2 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |
| 3 | In The Origin , and already as far back as The German Ideology , Marx and Engels followed their contemporaries in believing that the history of mankind usually went through the same sequence of technological improvement . |
| 4 | ‘ No , and just as well really because we have a marked lack of success in that area ! |
| 5 | MacLachlan , victor of eight combats over the island , was fortunate to come down on Malta itself , rather than in the sea : ‘ For what seemed like hours I hung there , apparently motionless , with Malta still as far away as ever . |
| 6 | Even when there are n't seemingly many jobs for anybody I think a mathematician is probably as well off as anybody to get a job , almost at every level . |
| 7 | During the nine months of burning oil wells , acid deposition posed a significant threat not only to Kuwait and its neighbours but also as far away as 2000–3000 km . |
| 8 | Hawaii and Iceland are nearly as far apart as it is possible to get on Earth , but both are composed of basalts , and oceanic volcanoes everywhere in the world are composed of almost identical basalts . |
| 9 | Here in a vault at the county 's record office are kept seventy five thousand wills dating as as far back as fifteen forty one . |
| 10 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |
| 11 | Those who live nearby can take in items for repair , but the company will also accept commissions from overseas — even as far away as Australia . |
| 12 | The charred remains of many books fell near his home and even as far away as Windsor . |
| 13 | So strong is the activity in these discharges that it can still be measured in the sea right down the western coast of Britain , northwards round the top of Scotland , and even as far away as Scandinavia . |
| 14 | Even as far away as Australia commentators talked about a quiet revolution in the way Australians and their communities were responding to the types of learning challenges being presented to them by the changing social conditions of the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 15 | Even as far back as 1978 the white paper on the nationalized industries welcomed the development of audit committees and the contribution they could make to improved efficiency . |
| 16 | And even as far back as the second century , Britannia graced the back of their coins . |
| 17 | And even as far back as the second century , Britannia graced the back of their coins . |
| 18 | Most of the time one was all right — or at least as all right as one had ever been — and then out of the blue it struck , a hideous uprush of fear , of longing , of shame . |
| 19 | This would imply that the primordial black hole closest to the earth is probably at least as far away as the planet Pluto . |
| 20 | ‘ Ideas ’ have played a part in philosophy at least as far back as Plato , for whom they had a reality of their own quite apart from any relation they might have to our minds . |
| 21 | Ronald Reagan 's serious interest in politics dates at least as far back as his early days in Hollywood and , given the later doubts about his intelligence , it is interesting to note that , at this stage , he hardly lived up to the image of an empty-headed film actor . |
| 22 | Educationalists have taken such stances throughout the history of compulsory schooling and they can trace the roots of their position at least as far back as the writings of William Godwin ( 1756–1836 ) and J. J. Rousseau ( 1712 — 78 ) . |
| 23 | In forging this connection between familial morality and the strength of the nation state , Hopkins was drawing on a long-established tradition of moral philosophy dating at least as far back as the late eighteenth century . |
| 24 | The system was improved in 1597 , when ministers and churchwardens were instructed henceforth to keep their records in a bound register and to copy out surviving documents at least as far back as 1558 , when Elizabeth came to the throne . |
| 25 | The clearances in neighbouring Java started at least as long ago as 4800 BP . |
| 26 | For centuries racing took place on Clifton Ings with the House book of the York Corporation recording that it took place there as long ago as 1530 . |
| 27 | The second I saw was an Alan Ayckbourn , considering that I was only six at the time and I did n't understand some of it I still was enthralled with the acting and enjoyed it almost as equally enough as the panto . |
| 28 | This followed the line of the river , which ran straight from almost as far away as they could see , flowing smoothly without fords , gravel shallows or plank bridges . |
| 29 | The family had always been interested in the leather trade , indeed as far back as eighteen hundred and fourteen er , our ancestors were tanners in the south country , and we make an article known as Hooper 's saddle food , which is much sought after by the saddlers , and other people using similar sort of leathers . |
| 30 | Perhaps more important still , each half of the series has a large five-note group in the zones of B and F. Note that these zones , being a tritone apart , are tonally as far apart as is possible . |