Example sentences of "[noun prp] as [adv] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their interest in Celtic lands and civilization became apparent only in the fourth century B.C. , though they had founded the important colony of Marseilles as early as the end of the seventh century . |
| 2 | The more southerly route lay across a gap in the Urals to the Irtysh and thence , after the Tatar khanate had been defeated , up the middle Ob and its tributaries , such as the Ket , to where a portage led to the middle reaches of the Yenisei ; from here they ascended the Upper ( or ‘ Stony ’ ) Tunguska as far as the Ilim , and so either by portage to the Lena or up the Angara towards Lake Baikal . |
| 3 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council attention was drawn to the overgrown state of the footway on Station Lane Scorton on the section from the entrance to Brook Avenue as far as the railway bridge . |
| 4 | Further to my letter of 23rd May and our telephone conversation yesterday it now seems that most of the verges and hedge-bottoms in the Scorton area have been trimmed EXCEPT for the section of Station Lane from opposite Brook Avenue as far as the railway bridge . |
| 5 | In November 1913 he accompanied his family on their way to England as far as the railhead , which had now reached the Awash river , and then returned to Addis Ababa . |
| 6 | A ward nurse accompanied Mr Reynolds as far as the anaesthetic room , taking with her all his notes and X-rays to ensure that the surgical team had all the available information . |
| 7 | The landed interests , who still dominated the House of Commons as well as the House of Lords , were outraged : ‘ a more distinct and determined invasion of the rights of property could not have been devised ’ . |
| 8 | In practice , however , this is not the case because the party organises the Commons as well as the electorate and the leadership of the majority party forms the government and Cabinet . |
| 9 | The route was to proceed along Thicket Road and Beckenham Road as far as the Penge/Beckenham boundary . |
| 10 | Roughly speaking , the parts of England most affected by this type of planning form a great belt which sweeps round from Flamborough Head on the Yorkshire coast , down through the Midlands as far as the Dorset coast , and thence north-eastwards along the chalk uplands to the Norfolk coast . |
| 11 | Mr Norman has more than one Ferrari , uses his Aston Martin as often as the Rolls-Royce but admits that Laura , his wife , often goes in the family Range Rover to have her hair done . |
| 12 | His son Cambyses drove into Egypt , and the empire was then extended by his successor Darius as far as the valley of the Indus . |
| 13 | Instead , they had driven on eastwards , beyond the last heath of the New Forest as far as the housing estates fringing Fawley Oil Refinery , on one of which lived Molly Diamond , Dysart 's cleaning lady . |
| 14 | Last time round they went to south east Asia , trekked in Nepal as far as the Everest base camp , saw Thailand and China then came back on the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 15 | Deposits of comparable material which extend from the Ukraine westwards along the foot of the Hercynian uplands of Europe as far as the chalk plateaus of Artois and Picardy , were most likely derived by deflation from the glacial deposits of the North European Plain during the Pleistocene period . |
| 16 | The photons in question follow radial paths for which the time elapsed between emission and detection is where the probe is at radius r and the observer at radius R. As far as the observer is concerned the arrival time T is measured relative to some fixed event , which can be the departure of the probe . |
| 17 | Indeed , given a campaign by Wulfhere as far as the coast , it is difficult to see how the whole extent of the northern territory of the western Saxons from Berkshire to Somerset could have escaped Mercian pressure in these years , creating perhaps precedents for further Mercian involvement in these districts at a later time . |
| 18 | The most important variation from Redcliffe-Maud as far as the structure of local government was concerned was the addition of two further metropolitan areas . |
| 19 | In the year A.D. 43 , Emperor Claudius sent an army under Aulus Plautius , who quickly subdued Kent as far as the Medway where again the British forces gathered to oppose the Romans . |
| 20 | In the Appalachian region there were repeated uplifts giving rise to coarse detritus in the trough to the west , whilst a vast shallow carbonate-depositing sea extended over the stable interior of North America as far as the Pacific ranges . |
| 21 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 22 | The moment the work was done he had ordered his coachman to drive him back to Millfield as fast as the horses would go . |
| 23 | Rivers , by all accounts no fool , apparently still expected co-operation from Gloucester as late as the end of April . |
| 24 | Rivers , by all accounts no fool , apparently still expected co-operation from Gloucester as late as the end of April . |