Example sentences of "as [adv] as [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We plan to place the order for the fourth Trident submarine with VSEL at Barrow as soon as contract negotiations have been satisfactorily completed . |
| 2 | Tea was a plate of doorsteps cut by Mrs Garfitt the housekeeper at one-thirty , as soon as school lunch was over . |
| 3 | As soon as steam trains were invented , up and running , they became the tools of the industrialist and of the punter on holiday , noisy , smelly , usually late , and the last word in ways to go down the coast . |
| 4 | As soon as mathematics teachers address issues which are contentious , such as the 1986 CSE question related to arms spending , the question is seen as political not mathematical ; this reinforces an image of mathematics as having nothing to do with explaining society . |
| 5 | Clinical grading was specifically drawn up for nurses , ‘ yet it will start to break up as soon as job evaluation is introduced ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ As soon as weather conditions change then the programme of steam trains can be resumed . |
| 7 | Specifically , as soon as market interest rates started to rise , expectations of an increase in MLR were generated and the government 's funding programme became difficult . |
| 8 | In a politically bold move whose timing was widely interpreted as a favour to Margaret Thatcher with a week to go to the Commonwealth summit in Kuala Lumpur , Mr de Klerk said that the prisoners would be released as soon as prison formalities were dealt with . |
| 9 | Both times test work was stopped as soon as MoD chiefs realised what was happening . |
| 10 | Whatever the situation , whether it is your turn or your opponent 's , as soon as enemy approach to within 8″ you declare that your Fanatics are coming out ! |
| 11 | Acer UK Ltd 's Christopher Hay says the company is ‘ comfortable ’ with SCO 's recently declared intention to edge towards Unix SVR4 and says Acer 's collaboration in the ACE initiative has provided the firm with the experience of RISC and Microsoft NT should that be required in the future , though it only has Intel 's P5 part in its sights at present as far as chip technology goes . |
| 12 | Ron Bower , director of product management for end user tools says Informix Storm will allow users to access , extract , manipulate and present corporate data as well as share information across different applications . |
| 13 | While statements such as this invited the charge that factual evidence was becoming confounded with too-hasty interpretation , the basic thesis survived and has been strengthened by other workers not of the psychoanalytic school : notably the ethologists and zoologists , as well as child psychologists ( Lorenz , 1952 ; Harlow , 1961 ; Schaffer and Emerson , 1964 ) . |
| 14 | Other observations from infant as well as child mortality . |
| 15 | The work reported on in section 3.3 suggested that there may be economic efficiency ( as well as taxation efficiency ) reasons for the introduction of share options , and in general it suggested that managerial emolument packages should not be in the form of a straight salary but should involve some performance-improving subtleties . |
| 16 | The men got away with £4,500 in cash as well as cheque books and cashpoint cards which were kept along with their pin numbers . |
| 17 | The Equality Code of Practice , originally recommended by the Bar Race Equality Policy , is now to include gender as well as race discrimination . |
| 18 | In particular , an awareness of environmental risks is growing amongst the financial institutions , as well as insurance companies and lawyers . |
| 19 | Or when all those glossy hotel guides begin to award green rosettes for environmental performance as well as gold stars for comfort or knives and forks for cuisine . |
| 20 | Denmark had sent one corvette to the Gulf as well as gas masks to Turkey and Israel and medical teams to the war zone . |
| 21 | Does he have plans to extend operations during night time as well as day time ? |
| 22 | The London International Stock Exchange yesterday voted to bring the costly Taurus paperless trading fiasco to an end and kill the project , and the Bank of England established a task force on securities settlement following an approach by the Stock Exchange , to consider best way forward for development of securities settlement , share registration and share transfer in the UK and to identify possible alternatives to Taurus , having regard to speed of implementation , cost , ownership , governance and financing , as well as system structure , to recommend a preferred option and to make recommendations for managing its implementation and to report to the governor of the Bank of England by the end of June 1993 at the latest ; the abandonment of project , which cost the Exchange £75m and City firms preparing for it a lot more , cost 220 direct employees and another 130 contractors their jobs . |
| 23 | It will identify possible alternatives to Taurus , having regard to speed of implementation , cost , ownership , governance and financing , as well as system structure , and will recommend a preferred option , make recommendations for managing its implementation , and report to the governor of the Bank of England by the end of June 1993 at the latest . |
| 24 | There can be no good reason to object to this when it is recognised that efficiency incorporates personal factors such as safety , health and quality of working life as well as system factors such as productivity and quality of work . |
| 25 | These ampoules contain unit doses of preformulated reagents and are used to perform colorimetric and titrimetric tests , as well as sample dilutions . |
| 26 | The total has increased because Mr Neasom has covered Bradford City v Portsmouth at Odsal as well as Valley Parade , and Bristol Rovers v Portsmouth at both Eastville and Twerton Park , Bath . |
| 27 | There are , for example , already more than 300 local authority solar/ low energy council house schemes in the UK and the CEGB is embarking on a programme of windmill construction and assessment — with a 3MW unit being erected on the Orkneys and ten smaller machines being deployed in East Anglia , as well as test units at Carmarthen Bay in Wales . |
| 28 | They include an international suite of objects Pencom says provide automatic translation from one language to another as well as currency translation ; a qualified fetch from a database without code and a multiuser distributed record-locking object . |
| 29 | We manage interest rate risk as well as currency risk . |
| 30 | It emerged that these included some 70 MPs , and anti-nuclear lobbyists and feminist leaders as well as terrorist suspects , and that the information contained in the files included details unrelated to any security considerations , such as foreign travel and participation in legal political activities . |