Example sentences of "as [adv] as [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harriet Shakespeare and the policemen had begun to creep closer , ready to run as soon as the first shot was fired . |
| 2 | Secret As soon as the first four figures — 1978 are written down , you obtain the final result by subtracting one from the right hand figure and adding it to the front . |
| 3 | As soon as the first person speaks , your confederate leaves the room and says ‘ I have received the inspiration ’ . |
| 4 | I did , from the moment we met , almost as soon as the first throb of the Mantela 's engines announced that we were on our way . |
| 5 | As soon as the first insipid light filtered through the entrance , I was glad to make tepid tea and chewy porridge garnished with mouse droppings , while enjoying a limited success in coaxing Roger from his marginally more substantial pit . |
| 6 | Sell on a strike they say , so no doubt the time to sell 3DO Co Inc 's shares are as soon as the first marketable interactive multimedia home entertainment centres to the company 's standard are announced : the shares , floated at $15 , rose to $20.125 on the first day of trading going to $24 on the second day . |
| 7 | Almost as soon as the first fascicle had appeared , the OED was recognized as a unique enterprise , a pioneering work of scholarship , an unparalleled treasury of the English language , and the indispensable key to the interpretation of the literature of past ages . |
| 8 | Untidy foliage at the water 's edge provides a sanctuary for waterlily beetles and other aquatic pests , so should be removed as soon as the first autumn frosts turn it brown . |
| 9 | As soon as the first ring sounded he knew she was not there , that the sound of the telephone was reverberating through empty rooms , as lost and desolate as wind crying across a salt marsh , as hopeless as he felt his own heart to be . |
| 10 | The auditory word detectors are activated by input from a spoken word , and an essential aspect of the model is that this activation begins as soon as the first sounds in the word are heard . |
| 11 | According to the cohort model , however , as soon as the first part of the word has been heard , all the detectors for words beginning with this initial sound are activated . |
| 12 | But of course as soon as the first one started the whole lot went , over my cow shed . |
| 13 | It will be argued that when the second source is threatened as well as the first , the power to coerce can devolve on the civil sphere in a substantive way . |
| 14 | Enough if I have shown that if we care to do so , we can illustrate the second as well as the first half of what I may call the Plowden proposition . |
| 15 | Smith , in his second Test , top-scored in the second innings as well as the first , but it was all totally predictable ; 150 all out left West Indies 39 to win , and less than six overs sufficed . |
| 16 | We have financed the European Arts Festival to be held throughout Britain during our Presidency of the Community in the second half of this year , as well as the first National Music Day in June . |
| 17 | The first three fastest men , the first 040 , 050 and 060 men as well as the first three male teams were each presented with their prizes before any women were even mentioned . |
| 18 | And we developed and built the first air-launched anti-tank missile , as well as the first launch-and-leave imaging infrared homing air-to-surface missile . |
| 19 | His list was none the less wide-ranging enough to include some handsome illustrated books , as well as the first regular publications of both Alfred , Lord Tennyson [ q.v . ] |
| 20 | It is not possible to arrange that the second derivatives as well as the first derivatives of the coefficients all simultaneously vanish , because there are insufficient free variables . |