Example sentences of "as [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents . |
| 2 | The Conservatives did not do as badly in the South East as elsewhere ( average swing to Labour , 4.7% ) , whereas Labour performed much better in another traditional area of weakness , the South West , with the Conservative vote dropping substantially in Bristol ( -6.7% ) , Exeter ( -8.8% ) , Penwith ( -11.6% ) , and Torbay ( -17.4% ) . |
| 3 | There is an alternative , more optimistic view that some people in education are expressing , which sees the current changes as somewhere between an irrelevance and a minor irritation in terms of their own aims and practices . |
| 4 | On both spring and autumn passage the species frequently appears at inland waters as well as right along the coast . |
| 5 | The general weather system of the Pacific is determined by the emptiness and uninterrupted smoothness of the Ocean — of the area above which , as all over the planet , air pressures build and wind patterns develop . |
| 6 | Or , as much to the point but slightly differently , I want to be a father . |
| 7 | During the last 30 years , CFCs have contributed only one third as much to the Earth 's heat budget as carbon dioxide . |
| 8 | It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions . |
| 9 | Such variation reflects as much on the Authority 's style and the quality of its thinking as it does on the heads , and there is a clear need for much greater dialogue between the two levels . |
| 10 | It 's quite well known that Little Richard was one of David 's idols , but there 's a lot of other American people who interested David , as much from the image point of view as the music . ’ |
| 11 | A child 's piping question about the next ‘ act ’ — a professional juggler currently on the variety bill in a nearby town — was hurriedly hushed , as much by the Colonel 's glare as its mother 's whisper . |
| 12 | Stafford Cripps continued to stress that such an alliance was made inevitable as much by the policy of the Labour Party as by the growing danger from Nazi Germany . |
| 13 | At what point did they cease to represent family groups and turn into a coherent social group , a local bourgeoisie , or even ( as perhaps in the case of Protestant and Jewish bankers ) a more widespread network , of which family alliances form merely one aspect ? |
| 14 | 17.63 Assessment in the primary school should incorporate internal assessment as above from the outset . |
| 15 | It 's probably one that picks up conversations in the room as well as just on the phone but I can show it to the boys at — ’ |
| 16 | In 1992 , we responded with enthusiasm to the theme of the Earth Summit : that our way of life here in Wales , as elsewhere across the World , must change if it is to become genuinely environmentally sustainable . |
| 17 | In Poplar , as elsewhere in the winter of 1902–03 , and in the still more severe distress of 1903–04 , public funds were opened for the ‘ relief of distress ’ , often sponsored by newspapers . |
| 18 | I would respectfully agree with his description , in relation to dishonest actions , of appropriation as involving an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner 's rights , but I believe that the less aggressive definition of appropriation which I have put forward fits the word as used in an honest sense in section 2(1) as well as elsewhere in the Act . |
| 19 | In the mid-705 , in the Federal republic as elsewhere in the West , the oil crisis gave economic planners a jolt and the bonanza in education spending was over . |
| 20 | Otherwise , mud continues to denote low status as elsewhere in the world . |
| 21 | As elsewhere in the book these suggestions are not intended to be prescriptive but , rather , a stimulus for ideas . |
| 22 | That I am amused by such lines as " Noah/ good place to eat " ; " Doughnut/ask me silly questions " or " Theresa/fly in my soup " ( Wales , 1990 ) raises the important question , of course , here as elsewhere in the book , and equally evaded by Chiaro as by Nash , of whether a joke is still a joke if the listener fails to appreciate it , or if there is no reader- response ; is the perlocutionary effect , in other words , part of its definition ? |
| 23 | There had , of course , been Christians here , as elsewhere in the Empire , since the middle of the third century , but it was by Clovis 's example — in fulfilment of a vow made in battle — that the heathen Frankish warriors accepted baptism from Remigius . |
| 24 | In this first type of exclamation , the impression then is that the person who would have been evoked as the subject if the verb were in a finite form is represented as somehow before the infinitive event . |
| 25 | The bare infinitive no longer suffices , however , when its actual spatial support is represented as somehow before the time corresponding to the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 26 | All parties will have been aware from the inception of the management buy-out that the investor would seek to realise its investment as soon after the buy-out as an appropriate return on investment could be achieved . |
| 27 | The experience of witnessing psychosocially normal people from a wide range of abilities and backgrounds telling the stories of their individual experience and what has been done to them , would be the best method of ensuring that sufferers from addictive disease are not treated as dismissively in the future as they have tended to be in the past . |
| 28 | When you get a blow on the head and fall forward , whether it 's flying stones or a blackjack , you may fall heavily , but even so I do n't think you 'd embed yourself as deeply in the mud as Mr Hambro was embedded . ’ |
| 29 | Jack knew that his father 's head was buried as deeply in the world of rugby as the world of medicine . |
| 30 | If attitudes to the content of the diabetic diet have changed radically , the importance of the regularity of meals and snacks is as important as ever for the patient on intermittent injections of insulin . |