Example sentences of "as [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ultrasound scan was done , as already described to assess stone status and gall bladder emptying . |
| 2 | As soon attempt to slice water with a sword , or chop up the sea . |
| 3 | The alien , who was , according to the scientists , ‘ of humanoid form ’ , was from the planet Tellenor in the constellation of the Bear , identified subsequently by scientists as probably belonging to star system BG4543/2221 in the Beta Principis cluster . |
| 4 | You might as well hope to get manure from a rockin' horse 's backside as help from Him . ’ |
| 5 | Li Yuan might as well try to harness Change itself as try to force the boy 's talents to conform to the needs of State . |
| 6 | Popular culture gives us plenty of female verbal incontinence ( cf the Andy Capp joke : ‘ when two wives get together , who has the last word ? ’ ) and illogical women who ca n't keep to the point ( as a character in the soap opera Coronation Street comments , ‘ you might as well try to knit fog as follow what 's in a woman 's mind ’ ) . |
| 7 | A very visible recent example is the campaign by the European Publishers Council in conjunction with the European Advertising Agencies Association , which is designed to bring to public attention proposals about advertising by the European commission which the EPC regards , with some justification , as potentially damaging to free speech and , even , free trade . |
| 8 | This was placed in a sterile universal tube and centrifuged at 14000 revolutions per minute for 4 minutes as previously described to elute sample DNA . |