Example sentences of "for as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as balance is concerned , would a teacher in a school with Afro-Caribbean children on the register have to present a case for as well as against apartheid when covering South Africa ? |
| 2 | But those just wanting a quiet chat and a cup of coffee will be catered for as well as those wanting to take part in activities . |
| 3 | As well as a mid-day meal , stimulating activities are arranged ; and these , plus the company , can make an enjoyable break for the cared for as well as the carer . |
| 4 | If this is your motive it is important to recognize it , and to make sure that does not impose too great a burden on the person cared for as well as on yourself . |
| 5 | For as well as maintaining stately homes and castes , the National Trust is in the holiday home business . |
| 6 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 7 | Yet Poulantzas ' wish to argue hypothetically is peculiarly revealing ; for as well as drawing attention to the slight explanatory power of his theory it raises the third of the questions with which I began — the question of whether he has really succeeded in casting off voluntarism . |
| 8 | It is an enormous task with over 3700 kms of roads and footpaths to care for as well as around 380 sets of traffic lights , 120,000 street lights , and around 100,000 road gullies . |
| 9 | Individual colleges then presented their proposals to SCOTVEC at the end of February for as well as for courses devised by individual colleges and consortia . |
| 10 | For the present , then , the vital need is to do everything possible to secure a safe retirement of XH558 , where she will be cared for as well as she has been since becoming the VDF display aircraft . |
| 11 | She decided that the link with Bert was unlikely to hold Jasper back from one of his binges ; that she would have to sit it out ; that Bert was almost certainly going after Pat ; that the best thing she could do was to organise a Congress of the C.C.U. for as soon as possible . |
| 12 | Ernie Walker , the retiring secretary of the SFA , said yesterday that Scottish football could have a two-month winter shut-down scheduled for as early as next season . |
| 13 | Ernie Walker , the retiring secretary of the SFA , said yesterday that Scottish football could have a two-month winter shut-down scheduled for as early as next season . |
| 14 | And the ore was certainly found , for as early as 1975 Lang 's fortune was estimated at between £40 million and £90 million . |
| 15 | Newcastle 's success is less easy to explain , for as late as the early sixteenth century its main export commodity was wool , although by the reign of Henry VIII it seems to have expanded its trade in coal , iron and lead ( 59 ; 71 ; 75 , p.45 ) . |
| 16 | For as far as the distant bluffs , the land is lost to prairie larks and prong-horned antelope . |
| 17 | She could see twigs scattered along the lane for as far as the car 's headlights reached . |
| 18 | Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it . |
| 19 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |
| 20 | It was not uncommon for stolen animals to be transported along paths and roads for as far as fifty kilometres . |
| 21 | She could n't reach very far , but for as far as she could , the window was clean , bright . |
| 22 | For as far as I could see , the surface was bare , grey dirt — rocky , bumpy , ridged , pitted . |
| 23 | For as far as she could see there were no secret , unsafe corners . |
| 24 | And er , on that message , er , it seems , er good enough time to say that 's er , all we have time for as far as the phone calls are concerned on the Breakfast Call this morning . |
| 25 | On hearing this , the king gave orders for the fields around his castle to be planted with almond trees for as far as the eye could see . |
| 26 | Some detainees have been held for as long as seven years without charge or trial . |
| 27 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 28 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 29 | I stayed in the cafe for as long as I felt I could and then went back outside . |
| 30 | Root crops for storage are best left in the ground for as long as possible , provided they are dug up before severe frosts set in . |