Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Folk said only trust foreigners as far as th'could see 'em — no further . |
| 2 | Please send entries as soon as possible . |
| 3 | The hon. Lady knows those ferry owners as well as I do . |
| 4 | Later generations spread south as far as the tip of South America ; later still they reached similar latitudes in southern New Zealand . |
| 5 | While the revocation of a parole licence is a relatively rare occurrence , this type of decision in the new scheme will become commonplace , and it is to be hoped that the Court will address the policy questions and give guidance as early as possible after the implementation of the Act . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's like a terrorist attack , you know , splashing around rifle fire and bazookas and even nerve gas indiscriminately so as to get the highest death toll in the shortest possible time . ’ |
| 7 | Most countries accept dollars as readily as their own currency . |
| 8 | In Truelove Lowland lakes aquatic algae and bacteria begin photosynthesis as early as February , when snow still mantles the ice and less than 1% of available light penetrates ( Hobbie , 1962,1964 ; Holmgren , 1968 ) . |
| 9 | Institutions are viewed as expressions of collective purposes which maintain vitality so long as they are able to maintain a clear sense of purpose . |
| 10 | Suffice it to say that whatever the Court of Appeal 's finding there are likely to be significant procedural and resource implications as far as the administration of the complaints system is concerned and these will have to be explored during the coming year . |
| 11 | Please contact Rita as soon as possible if you would like to attend . |
| 12 | Admittedly we find Abraham as early as chapter 13 walking through the length and breadth of the Promised Land , thus appearing to take legal possession of it . |
| 13 | Or , to put it the other way round , affines only remain friends so long as they remain affines ; they are bonded together by political alliance rather than by common substance , and , if the parties concerned want to maintain that alliance , they must repeatedly reaffirm that bonding by the appropriate exchange of imperishable valuables of a visible and identifiable kind . |
| 14 | There is a tendency not to offer housing to dementia sufferers ( especially where known behaviour problems exist ) , but on the other hand to try to help tenants who develop dementia as long as is reasonable . |
| 15 | These do not usually cause a problem as they leave ferrets as quickly as they leave humans . |
| 16 | A general tradition in a neighbourhood that children leave school as soon as possible affects the decision of individuals to stay on at school beyond the compulsory school leaving age ; and so on . |
| 17 | So chaired the first part of the report I recommend that the structure as outlined erm , be approved and that the necessary recruitment take place as soon as possible . |
| 18 | UEFA is unlikely to reduce a punishment apparently designed to make the Dutch authorities , civil as well as sporting , take hooliganism as seriously as the British have been obliged to . |
| 19 | It would be impossible to persuade anyone to act as trustee unless the discretion entrusted to him were very liberally conferred , and it is now possible for a trustee to delegate to an agent , not merely pieces of business requiring especial skill , but the whole business of the trust , and escape liability so long as he acts in good faith . |
| 20 | It seems to me that they all have implications so far as people 's lives are concerned — their activities , their rewarding work , in a sense . |
| 21 | If taxes are raised to finance the spending , the policy will still be expansionary and so reduce unemployment so long as the taxes raised do not exceed the increase in government spending by a certain amount . |