Example sentences of "as [adv] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front of the entrance there is a pillar of rock forty feet high , called the Soldier Rock , and the entrance itself is so narrow as only to admit a small boat , and then only in fine weather . |
| 2 | Intended as well to improve the educational chances of children in the deprived inner cities , when first proposed they had the somewhat dubious appearance of being the outcome of a bright idea , one that would kill a variety of birds with the same stone : up with the inner cities ; , down with Local Authorities ; up with privatization ; down with education in the arts . |
| 3 | It seemed that all the other Minpins from the big tree had turned up as well to witness the great victory over the dreaded Gruncher . |
| 4 | Well if we put their name and address and phone number on it , I mean it 's probably just as well to use a standard thing that you can xerox . |
| 5 | Their lordships would do as well to use an Electronic Random Number Indicating Machine . " |
| 6 | Misson , in his commentary on the English funeral , tells us what happened next , and why : ‘ They let it [ the corpse ] lye three of four Days … which Time they allow , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funeral . ’ |
| 7 | They let it lye three or four days in this Condition ; which Time they allowe , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funerall . |
| 8 | By 1922 it was for some such a strong attitude as almost to obliterate the normal responses of party . |
| 9 | They said of Dr Barnard that from fragments so minuscule as almost to deceive a magnifying glass he could reconstitute a bomb to the point of identifying the factory that made its components and the man who assembled it . |
| 10 | The appeal of military titles , which occur freely among the early British railway executives and managers of large port undertakings , did not rest on pride in the hierarchies of soldiers and officials , such as the Germans felt , but on the inability of private enterprise as yet to devise a specific form of management for big business . |
| 11 | It has not proved possible as yet to get a Homeopathic lecturer but this is still being followed up and will be fitted into a future programme . |
| 12 | That is to say they operated in such a way as either to confirm the proposed design ( by acting within the analysis phase ) or to generate the engineering information for production ( by acting within the scheming phase ) . |