Example sentences of "as [adj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gulls are as usual here as the stones |
| 2 | A former army boxer , he will don the No 15 shirt as usual today in the game against Hartlepool TDSOB thirds . |
| 3 | But first it will be business as usual down on the farm . |
| 4 | Instead of trying to escape by moving as fast as possible away from the predator , some animals take an erratic zigzag course . |
| 5 | It is tempting to try to cram as much information as possible on to the page , a solid mass of print is unattractive to the eye and is unlikely to be read . |
| 6 | They will try to cram as many Minis as possible on to the Lake Windermere ferry and see how many consecutive journeys they can make . |
| 7 | But today was Monday , the first and the worst day , getting used to the maverick wind , going as slow as possible up to the corner where she had to say goodbye to Izzy and face it all alone . |
| 8 | Jacqui Bowen is a journalist from South Wales who likes to spend as much time as possible out on the hill |
| 9 | Sir Kenneth , for example , set up multi-agency panels to deal with the cautioning of juveniles , designed to keep as many as possible out of the courts . |
| 10 | This depends on many factors but three in particular will influence feelings of wanting to get as much as possible out of the coaching opportunities which you provide : |
| 11 | With dolphins on the rampage it seems a good idea to spend as much time as possible out of the water . |
| 12 | The wedding industry has to get as much cash as possible out of the remaining couples who choose to tie the knot with the blessing of God and every florist in Britain . |
| 13 | The transsexual is one who utterly and completely rejects his biological sex , seeing personal fulfilment and even survival as possible only through the assumption in as complete a way as possible of the sex to which he feels he really belongs . |
| 14 | Grammatical rules are seen as existing independently of the child , and changes in the child 's language in the direction of conventional syntax and morphology are seen as indicative of the child acquiring the rules which make up the grammatical system . |
| 15 | But while the Christian sees doubt as useful only in the preliminary stages of exposing what he should not believe , some humanists go much further . |
| 16 | It had been widely denounced as disastrous both for the environment and the local Auyu forest people , whose traditional lands would be devastated [ see ED 46 for a detailed account of the project ] . |
| 17 | Nor can any general law of ‘ radicalisation as a result of mobilisation ’ be regarded as valid solely on the basis of the war 's impact : we may recall that at the end of the First World War the electorate voted for a substantially Conservative Parliament , albeit under the leadership of Lloyd George , the wartime Prime Minister . |