Example sentences of "as [adj] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must remember that she was still hardly five years old and it is not easy for somebody as small as that to score points against an all-powerful grown-up . |
| 2 | They are expected so far as practicable to make decisions on benefit entitlement within 14 days , but this time limit is frequently exceeded . |
| 3 | Please remember to send the direct debit form to this office as soon as possible to allow time for it to be processed for the May instalment . |
| 4 | They 've got two thousand seven hundred pounds in the deposit account , erm , they 'll be applying to Sidmouth town council for a grant , er the reason for the grant , they 've asked for two hundred and fifty , is to sponsor as many cadets as possible to take part in activities at Haven Banks . |
| 5 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 6 | He was to set out with the three French patrols , drive the hundred-odd miles to the Gabes Gap and pass through it as quickly as possible to create confusion in the enemy rear areas . |
| 7 | His aim in this was as far as possible to translate changes of tones into changes of colour , feeling that only by this method could the full saturation and pressure of colour be realized . |
| 8 | It is then wise to thresh as soon as possible to avoid loss to rats and mice . |
| 9 | I shall try as far as possible to discuss matters of principle rather than of particular detail . |
| 10 | A ventilator should then be inserted in the bottom : this can be adjustable for very windy weather , but must be kept open as much as possible to prevent dampness in the flue being caused by condensation . |
| 11 | Economic theory suggests that all forms of economic activity should be taxed as equivalently as possible to prevent distortions in the market . |
| 12 | At the level of morality , is it regarded as proper to take self-interest into account when deciding whether to offer support to a relative , or to ask for it ? |
| 13 | ‘ I am thrilled , ’ said Marcelle , ‘ I did not think it would be as easy as this to make friends with an English gentleman . ’ |
| 14 | The answer to those questions may be said to depend on whether it is generally as serious to obtain sex by deception as it is by other means ( threats , force , fear ) . |
| 15 | The LDDC sees these kinds of developments as likely to boost jobs within its area from the 1981 figure of 27,000 to around 80,000 by 1991 . |
| 16 | When the Foreign Office List made its first appearance " it was strongly objected to in certain quarters , as likely to afford information to the general public with regard to the office , which they thought it advisable they should not possess , and much information was for a time withheld " . |
| 17 | The Real Lives episode in 1985 severely damaged the BBC 's reputation for independence when its Board of Governors ( at the especial urging of its then Deputy Chairman , Lord Rees-Mogg ) cravenly banned the scheduled programme after Mrs Thatcher had condemned it , unseen , as likely to encourage support for terrorists . |
| 18 | This deterministic approach suffers by seeing the prison as existing to remove people from circulation , rather than its ideological function of social control . |
| 19 | There are many reasons why it may be regarded as helpful to gather information about a child 's language , and the uses to which any formal assessment results may be put will influence decisions about how assessments can best be carried out . |
| 20 | Yet another omission from the Vienna Convention is the most-favoured nation clause , a clause long accepted as effective to provide benefits for third parties to treaties concluded subsequent to the treaty containing the clause . |
| 21 | When British media law is compared with the jurisprudence of America , Canada , France , Scandinavia and Australia , however , it is seen to lack a number of features which are regarded as fundamental to press freedom in a democracy . |
| 22 | The use of the test as a prelude to intervention will depend very much on the extent to which it is regarded as important to direct remediation at the specific linguistic functions which this test addresses . |
| 23 | Moreover , that agreement should be kept under constant scrutiny during the initial period after the merger and amended as necessary to take account of the adjustments which will almost certainly be required as a result of the new firm 's experiences . |
| 24 | Then in the last two lines of the appendix I read the panel on doctrine seeks permission for the joint commission to meet twice yearly as necessary to study documents of doctrinal interest . |
| 25 | Schools would not , therefore , be allowed to become too small in terms of their pupil numbers : ‘ LEAs see it as necessary to balance allowance for parental choice against the consequences of choice for schools generally . ’ |
| 26 | Of course it matters if people are deliberately robbed of the means of judgment by suppression of facts which , in any other situation , would be regarded as necessary to make sense of what had taken place . |
| 27 | For example , taking the answer given by a respondent to a question as equivalent to direct observation of the event to which it refers , was an assumption upon which the method rested . |