Example sentences of "as [adj] [to-vb] [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I shall try as far as possible to discuss matters of principle rather than of particular detail . |
| 6 | Economic theory suggests that all forms of economic activity should be taxed as equivalently as possible to prevent distortions in the market . |
| 7 | ‘ I am thrilled , ’ said Marcelle , ‘ I did not think it would be as easy as this to make friends with an English gentleman . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |