Example sentences of "as [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's fair to say that it 's not quite as simple as just deleting that item out of the budget , there are in fact I think five or six people working for community arts and in the events of that item being deleted we would presumably have to add on the costs of making them redundant erm an an an and dis erm the community arts scheme I think represents , it 's true to say , a range of expertise . |
| 2 | They walked on grass , so as not to make any noise on the road . |
| 3 | Dispose of it carefully ( preferably not down the toilet ! ) so as not to spill any semen . |
| 4 | I detest Santiago de Torres , Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Culture , ‘ who personally blocked all possible sources of information ’ , so as not to present any obstacle to the successful removal of that shoal of piranha fish that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 5 | By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility . |
| 6 | Dorigo : Looked as classy as ever made some wonderfull runs along the wing was never in trouble . |
| 7 | It is an institution which until recently my fellow countrymen valued so highly as willingly to pay any price needful for its preservation . |
| 8 | To Mrs Rait 's yard-long list and all bakers and caterers , may be added this year two ‘ members of the general public ’ , as they described themselves , who volunteered , as also did some pupils of George Watson 's College through Roger Vandersteen , and the wife of an elder of Murrayfield Church ( they all made exemplary Indians ! ) . |
| 9 | You may regard the ‘ talk ’ you do at work as mainly having this function ; a lot of people do . |
| 10 | The latter case is the more straightforward since he presents the impact of Newton 's theory of coloured light as radically reorientating this area . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll take yer to 'im , you might as well meet each other now . ’ |
| 12 | I might as well do some work . ’ |
| 13 | If he is in there , then he is in there , and they might as well bring each other what comfort they can . |
| 14 | On the other hand , I 've got nothing at all against backing the scum.That way , if they lose and the bet does n't come up , you 're still happy anyway because they 've been beaten , and if they are going to win , you might as well make some money out of it . |
| 15 | May as well make some money . |
| 16 | I thought if I am going to be out of work , I might as well make some cash out of it . |
| 17 | If you are going to cheat and sneak bars of chocolate or packets of salted peanuts into your cupboard to eat when no one 's around then you might as well give this book to somebody else . |
| 18 | Those of you ( few , I hope ) who answer these questions in the wrong way , the stupid Philistine way , might as well close this book now and go walking about the world pretending to be real . |
| 19 | Besides , they cost so much , you might as well get some fun out of them . |
| 20 | But animals that had received NGF as well lost fewer cells than those that had not . |
| 21 | There must , of course , be money-making enterprises as well to buy those necessities that can not be grown on the farm , but these will be looked upon as secondary calls on the agricultural operations in which farm surpluses are sold to supplement the cash income from non-farming sources . |
| 22 | but er , I think we must concentrate on the decisive people as well to get these places on |
| 23 | One response to this objection , though , is that sooner or later you have to decide what someone means and how it is relevant to you ; so you might as well take that decision consciously , while you have the book or article in front of you to check . |
| 24 | In the meantime , she might just as well take another look at those ledgers and see if she could make any sense of them . |
| 25 | I might as well pack this hand up . |
| 26 | I want as well to redress some imbalances in recent academic accounts of the period known as the sixties . |
| 27 | and then er I thought oh I might as well put some veg in , you know , so I put some veg in , so when we , I says oh I 'll do this , I 'll do this stew , you know , nearly to finish it like , and erm when we come in we 'll have a meal ready for us , it were right nice coming into it meal ready |
| 28 | Might as well use this tape up and |
| 29 | I 've just come to realise : this is my life , I do n't know how long I 've got , I might as well enjoy that time being me , because I 'm stuck with this body , this face , this skin colour ; I have to make the most of it . |
| 30 | ‘ Might as well demolish this stuff ; I 'm not leaving it behind . ’ |