Example sentences of "on [pron] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bend the wire back on itself as close as possible . |
| 2 | Any research on something as complex as intelligence or the biological effects of very low levels of a substance is bound to be difficult , not least because so many factors are involved . |
| 3 | You will gather I mean it caught me unawares , and in fact it disturbed me that having a bit of a wobbly on something as simple as this did not bode well for the Devil 's Ridge , which The Munros book described as a section where ‘ some may welcome the security of a rope ’ . |
| 4 | ’ I hate to say this , Mr. Kopek , but I think I may be too old to start all over again on something as new as this . |
| 5 | But , Mr Boldwood , any woman would hesitate before deciding on something as important as marriage . |
| 6 | How much faith can we have in a possible Chancellor who does not have any independent view on something as important as the PSBR . |
| 7 | At last I hit on something as obvious as the bash with the heavy candlestick and decided that the murderer would use the weapon the wrong way up , that is , in a highly imperfect manner . |
| 8 | You mentioned the accounts of the Maxwell Charitable Trust as having five hundred thousand of assets , I saw those accounts for the first time the other day and I found that they had five hundred and one thousand of assets of which er five hundred thousand consisted of a a purely hypothetical transfer of an asset from a Liechtenstein trust to the U K trust and that asset had no valuation done on it as far as I can make out a and no reference to any valuation appeared in the accounts , so we actually had B I M apparently owned by a charitable trust on the face of it with figures of five hundred and one thousand of assets , but in practical accounting terms and valuation terms , no evidence that those five hundred and one thousand pounds er of assets had any valuation approaching that figure . |
| 9 | Get the lid slammed on it as quick as you like . ’ |
| 10 | For all that , as somebody who gets jelly knees on anything as simple as Jack 's Rake in the Langdales , I admire their bottle . |
| 11 | The next day , finding it difficult to concentrate on anything as mundane as a punitive airstrike against Gaddafi , he called Evelyn Starnes , managing editor of Mutual Radio , in Arlington , Virginia . |