Example sentences of "as [adv] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as an injunction was sought , newspapers faced large legal bills , he said . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , as soon as an attempt is made to measure ‘ performance ’ , a whole series of problems arises . |
| 3 | As Radin stressed in his discussion of the thought of primitive man , ‘ as soon as an object is regarded as a dynamic entity , then analysis and definition become both difficult and unsatisfactory . |
| 4 | The young of many species take cover as soon as an alarm call is given . |
| 5 | As soon as an adventurer enters the Tower , a secret WP test should be made . |
| 6 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 7 | Entries are made on the chart as soon as an offer of accommodation has been made . |
| 8 | As soon as an egg is laid the plant begins to grow rapidly in the region around the egg , forming a swelling , which is called a gall . |
| 9 | For example , a " compare for equality " between two vectors of store locations would cease as soon as an unequal pair was found . |
| 10 | Ask the electoral registration officer for an application form ( RPF9 ) as soon as an election has been announced and you know that you will not be able to vote in person . |
| 11 | Saddam had returned to the south , to keep an eye on developments , as soon as an offensive was regarded as likely . |
| 12 | As soon as an assignment has been fully proofed it goes on to a list which is published every two months to all of the sales execs and you just look out for your number , all right ? and you 've got your own personal records of course , if you know you 've earned bonus then that 's where to claim it . |
| 13 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 14 | As well as an exhibition of food-related products , the show will include a series of seminars covering quality assurance and customer relations . |
| 15 | She had evidently decided that the policeman was a handsome as well as an agreeable fellow . |
| 16 | Perform combination techniques on the move so that you are able to work effectively in a retreating as well as an advancing mode . |
| 17 | He mentions his presidency of the Student Council , and his chairmanship of ‘ Student Productions ’ ; as well as an interest in debating ‘ current events ’ . |
| 18 | In this section , I will set out what I believe to be the basic characteristics of a flourishing , as well as an unsuccessful , approach to science . |
| 19 | Therefore he has a public front and function as well as an unhealthy yellow human face . |
| 20 | Mr Cross is managing director of Dallhold Investments , Mr Bond 's private holding company through which he owns shares in Bond Corporation , Bond International Gold and other companies , as well as an extensive art collection . |
| 21 | He immediately booked a flight to Toulouse , saw a house 35 miles north-west of Toulouse in a small hamlet and realised it was ideal as a home as well as an auberge . |
| 22 | The building of a hotel and golf course as well as an extra 30 corporate hospitality boxes at Lingfield was the sort of commercial diversification that the Muddles see as a prerequisite to transforming racecourses into the nice little earners they should be . |
| 23 | Not only does this result confirm that the rhythm we measure under normal circumstances ( in fig. 1.1 , for example ) has an external as well as an internal cause but also it enables us to compare their size . |
| 24 | You need 5 GCSE O Levels ( including Art ) as well as an A Level pass in English ( or a relevant BTEC diploma ) . |
| 25 | Anyone can see that the breaching of the Berlin Wall is a great symbolic event as well as an actual one . |
| 26 | As well as an excellent display , the Lynx has a much louder speaker and — in the tradition of the Atari 8-bits and Commodore Amiga — a powerful set of chips to help it with the animation needed for superior three-dimensional games . |
| 27 | ‘ I think it 's a moral issue as well as an issue of economics . |
| 28 | Such a case emerges from the diary of my great-grandfather , James Taylor , who was a doctor as well as an Evangelical . |
| 29 | It is therefore possible to have a battery without an assault ( e.g. where D strikes V from behind ) , as well as an assault without a battery ( e.g. where D threatens to strike V but is prevented from doing so ) , but most cases involve both . |
| 30 | The manner in which one says or writes things , those public and therefore never totally adequate ways in which we seek to express our private or inner emotions , always has an implicit as well as an explicit content . |