Example sentences of "as [adv] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As soon as Honor was old enough she had been dragooned into helping with the housework , preparing meals if cook were ill , as well as acting as her mother 's companion . |
2 | As soon as Topaz returned to Stone Towers she set about its renovation . |
3 | To change the picture ; presuppositions are not a booster rocket to get faith off the ground — to be jettisoned as soon as faith is in orbit — but are as vital to faith as an engine to an aeroplane . |
4 | Further argument was profitless when he started shuffling his notes for the judgment which he would , in almost every case , deliver without hesitation or correction as soon as counsel sat down . |
5 | As soon as dusk begins to fall , the local starlings begin to arrive at our house . |
6 | Come as soon as surgery closes ’ , and when she turned from the telephone she smiled . |
7 | Medications are done , so Tony and I will be off as soon as surgery 's finished , if that 's all right with you ? ’ |
8 | was to die for us , he said as soon as man came not to be ministered to , but to minister and to give his soul for life , as a ransom in exchange for |
9 | As soon as government discovers an alternative way of maintaining an incentive to work , such as reducing unemployment and supplementary benefits to below subsistence level , then child benefit will once more be at risk . |
10 | As soon as babyhood is over , parents often decide it 's time their toddler Learnt Something . |
11 | All instruments should be immersed in either a suitable disinfectant or minimum 5 per cent formaldehyde solution as soon as treatment has been completed . |
12 | We plan to place the order for the fourth Trident submarine with VSEL at Barrow as soon as contract negotiations have been satisfactorily completed . |
13 | Decisions on pits which will survive will be left to British Coal , which has also been asked to prepare for privatisation as soon as legislation can be put in place . |
14 | As soon as lunch was over , Nanny came and collected Artemis for her walk . |
15 | That was his Sunday ritual : over to Harry 's for cards as soon as lunch was eaten , and back at exactly a quarter after six , to read the Sunday papers and then sleep off the drink . |
16 | As soon as lunch was over , Mr Evans was fidgeting to get back to the shop . |
17 | Tell you what , Loretta , we 'll go and see him as soon as lunch is over . |
18 | As soon as lunch was over , Simmons led Loretta out into the quadrangle . |
19 | Conversely , spring warming begins immediately under the ice as soon as sunlight penetrates , usually , in early summer after the surface snow ( which is relatively opaque to solar radiation ) has ablated or melted . |
20 | If part of the price is determined by completion accounts , the vendor will want the price to be paid as soon as it is determined , or as soon as part of it is determined if the balance is disputed . |
21 | Sir Leon Brittan , Britain 's EC commissioner , told a Bow Group fringe meeting last night that the Government should enter into the ERM as soon as turbulence subsided in the foreign exchange markets . |
22 | Second , if the teacher dashes off as soon as school is over ( s ) he can not care about it and so ( s ) he can not care about the pupils who attend the school . |
23 | As soon as school was finished we used to rush back to her house and start on our homework immediately , so as to have an hour or so for the passeggiata before going back for supper and finishing off . |
24 | Tea was a plate of doorsteps cut by Mrs Garfitt the housekeeper at one-thirty , as soon as school lunch was over . |
25 | As soon as school was over I took the train from Hammersmith to Whitechapel , then continued the rest of the journey on foot to Charlie 's home . |
26 | Some of these types who went in for murder as a professional thing would probably take you to the cleaners as soon as look at you . |
27 | That 's the sort as 'll turn thee over to the Cap n as soon as look at thee … never mind his soft words . ’ |
28 | " They 'll rape you as soon as look at you , " she had said . |
29 | He 'd have thrown him out as soon as look at him . |
30 | But it must be recognized at the outset that as soon as sampling is carried out the statements made about the cases involved become probability statements . |