Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long before as November 1966 , Jenkins had asked the Advisory Council on the Penal System to consider what changes and additions might be made in the range of non-custodial penalties that were available to the courts . |
| 2 | Except in his early letters to Helen , his reticence about his passionate courtship is almost complete — a fact that may explain , if not excuse , the coldness with which many of his friends and family received Helen 's slightly idealized accounts of their life together in As It Was and World Without End . |
| 3 | I only know because she tried to borrow mine to copy up but I 'm always behind as well . |
| 4 | Craig : Cheryl 's not so much always behind as all behind . |
| 5 | This place will always be here for her to come home to as long as I breathe . ’ |
| 6 | It was important , bearing in mind private viewing , that bodies should be not only as wholesome as possible but also as well dressed ; and dressed not only in a material according to social status but also in as well upholstered a coffin as funds would permit . |
| 7 | Joseph Gill , John Pinney 's hard-drinking cousin , lived as near by as caretaker ; Peggy Marsh , described by Dorothy as ‘ one of the nicest girls I ever saw ’ , arrived after a month to help in running the enormous house ; and from the beginning Wordsworth and Dorothy were preoccupied with caring for a child not yet three years old called Basil Montagu . |
| 8 | As like as two peas . |
| 9 | As like as two peas in a pod . |
| 10 | This was , after all , a time when black youth movies were Beat Street or Krush Groove , ie about as street as West Side Story . |
| 11 | Very little very few apprentices were sacked unless through misdemeanour or anything but if you done your work you were there to as long as you you liked . |
| 12 | The farmer stood silently by as we said our farewells . |
| 13 | Over the past year the role of OPAS has been considerably expanded and , instead of as before only being able to assist on occupational pensions , OPAS can now give help and advice on all matters to do with any type of pension scheme — except State schemes . |
| 14 | The -e has become attracted to the -ly ; the speller is seeing the word as a whole , instead of as love + ly |
| 15 | ‘ ( 1 ) The register may be rectified pursuant to an order of the court or by the registrar , subject to an appeal to the court , in any of the following cases , but subject to the provisions of this section : — ( a ) Subject to any express provisions of this Act to the contrary , where a court of competent jurisdiction has decided that any person is entitled to any estate right or interest in or to any registered land or charge , and as a consequence of such decision such court is of opinion that a rectification of the register is required , and makes an order to that effect ; ( b ) Subject to any express provision of this Act to the contrary , where the court , on the application in the prescribed manner of any person who is aggrieved by any entry made in , or by the omission of any entry from , the register , or by any default being made , or unnecessary delay taking place , in the making of any entry in the register , makes an order for the rectification of the register ; ( c ) In any case and at any time with the consent of all persons interested ; ( d ) Where the court or the registrar is satisfied that any entry in the register has been obtained by fraud ; ( e ) Where two or more persons are , by mistake , registered as proprietors of the same registered estate or of the same charge ; ( f ) Where a mortgagee has been registered as proprietor of the land instead of as proprietor of a charge and a right of redemption is subsisting ; ( g ) Where a legal estate has been registered in the name of a person who if the land had not been registered would not have been the estate owner ; and ( h ) In any other case where , by reason of any error or omission in the register , or by reason of any entry made under a mistake , it may be deemed just to rectify the register . |
| 16 | I 've heard erm people saying , I think it was in America erm , as , as long as you both shall love instead of as long as you both shall live . |
| 17 | The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure . |
| 18 | One possibility is that the tendency to use both is restricted to reducing strain induced by unfavourable syntactic constructions ( i.e. verb-with as against and ) . |
| 19 | Erm it would have to be if it were with water I 'd have to put something else in as well otherwise the stuff would n't stay on the page . |
| 20 | You do n't put something else in as well to make it |
| 21 | ‘ That 's something I look forward to as well . ’ |
| 22 | Vintage bus enthusiasts will have a day to look forward to as the first Quaker Rally is held in Darlington on May 17 . |
| 23 | Vintage bus enthusiasts will have a day to look forward to as the first Quaker Rally is held in Darlington on May 17 . |
| 24 | And of course , That 's right yes , make them do the test first and of course , you may very well need some specialists depending again on as we said , whatever your team has got to do . |
| 25 | Sometimes she took the form of a crow , sitting quietly by as the soldiers went into the fray . |