Example sentences of "as [adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Starfield and Mellits ( 1968 ) were successful in teaching 5-year-olds to hold on to their urine for as long as possible once a day for six months and enabled one-third of the children to become dry .
2 Er yes , the door opener in fact was was put on wrongly erm by unfortunately P C and er as the pressure started to exert outwards erm it then found that there was no resistance and consequently all the pressure was being put outwards er and as such then the machine started to make a noise erm which then we had to switch it off , turn it round , back on again and eventually gained access .
3 Others may feel that the cage has become , or is becoming , somewhat more explicit as a result of central government activity — leading to an emphasis upon the direct controls which would have appeared as unthinkable only a decade ago .
4 If LIFESPAN ERROR is returned as TRUE then a LIFESPAN error has occurred .
5 If SOFT ERROR is returned as TRUE then the user supplied details have caused an error .
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