Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [noun] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These twin problems of psychological dependence and social pressure were regarded by the majority of users as more difficult to overcome than the physical aspect of their addiction . |
| 2 | In fact they lick up the nectar by flicking their tongues rapidly into the flower , in the case of hummingbirds as swiftly as thirteen times a second . |
| 3 | It was dangerous on the roads for bairns as usually the horses with running with the carts . |
| 4 | Those applicants wishing to make use of this agreement , details of which should be available from their current institutions , should contact the appropriate Faculty at the University of Edinburgh as early as possible . |
| 5 | Watching it takes you into the mind of Ramanujan as surely as a long look into his eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ We all know about criminal cases and traffic offences , but there are many aspects of the work of the Magistrates Court which do not see the light of day as far as the general public are concerned , for example juvenile and matrimonial cases . |
| 7 | It seemed essential to minimise the proliferation of paper as far as possible and to centralise the recording of achievement in such a way that updating over a number of years would be possible . |
| 8 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 9 | It was essential to get the engine to pieces as soon as possible to stop further corrosion . |
| 10 | She flung the fragment of saucer as far as she could , watching it spinning against the sky . |
| 11 | At the start of the season , the defensive system was a sweeper one , it worked superbly , we were winning though , but it , it 's the , it 's the reincarnation of the battle of Culloden as far as I 'm concerned ; Bonnie Prince Charlie just trying to swamp the Duke of Cumberland . |
| 12 | There are references to such ‘ gonnes ’ in accounts of the siege of Berwick as early as 1333 , while it is likely that some form of artillery was brought across the sea by the English for the long siege of Calais of 1346–7 . |
| 13 | Whilst religious traditions may prefer the theme of light as more poetic , their theologians find more prosaic ways to represent the divine presence . |
| 14 | Recipients of the Profile who do not wish to pursue the acquisition are asked to return the Profile to KPMG as soon as possible . |
| 15 | In the first meeting with the Area Board chairmen in February 1952 , the new Conservative Minister of Fuel and Power , Geoffrey Lloyd , stressed the need for economy as forcefully as Gaitskell , and capital allocations were still as carefully scrutinised . |
| 16 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 17 | I 'm all for having the ball in play as often as possible . |
| 18 | Well , I was bored by the whole of presentation as far as television was concerned because I think television is bound to be superficial . |
| 19 | My objective — and , of course , this was one imposed upon me by my professionalism and by the need to clear the ground of rabbits as thoroughly as possible — was first to dispose of the bolting rabbits and then to continue by digging out as many of the remainder as possible . |
| 20 | Change was in the air of Glasgow as surely as Bill Haley , his kiss curl hanging limply over one eye , was singing ‘ Rockin' Through the Rye ’ and driving an entirely new breed of Glaswegian wild with frenzy … the teenager . |
| 21 | This would appear to be the end of the road for transsexuals as far as the law is concerned . |
| 22 | What is the significance of the tort of negligence as far as computers and software are concerned ? |
| 23 | 9. ( 1 ) After the initial allotment any shares proposed to be issued shall first be offered to the members in proportion as nearly as may be to the number of the existing shares held by them respectively . |
| 24 | 9. ( 1 ) After the initial allotment any shares proposed to be issued shall first be offered to the members in proportion as nearly as may be to the number of the existing shares held by them respectively . |
| 25 | He did not assert his claims for the structure and rites and liturgy of the Church of England as highly as did the divines of the next century . |
| 26 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 27 | There is also leading edge research taking place into pushing the limits of compression as far as they can possibly go . |
| 28 | A historian concerned to reconstruct the life of Abraham as exactly as possible wants to know what changes the story of Abraham went through in the process of retelling . |
| 29 | With the Turks at the gates of Vienna as late as the seventeenth century , it is not surprising that Bohemia came to be half-forgotten by Western Europe . |
| 30 | Senior ministers are determined that the major lenders will pass on the cuts to customers as soon as possible . |