Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Staples Corner explosion — less than a mile from the Metropoltan police training college — went off just after 1am as Mr Kenneth Baker , Home Secretary , arrived at the scene of the City blast . |
| 2 | Just get as far away from here as possible ! ’ |
| 3 | She would get away from here as soon as the snow began to melt . |
| 4 | His father , who once appeared in the Evening Standard as Spurs ' Number One fan , did not consider such suspicious activities as sport , so one day when he was 17 Kasmin decided to get as far away from home as possible , and fled to New Zealand . |
| 5 | Two- and three-year-olds , who did not yet know less , were not as consistent , and their responses to less and tiv — and possibly to more as well — suggested that , in the absence of lexical knowledge , they were probably relying on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater amount ( Trehub and Abramovitch , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Could Ernie go home at once as Youngs was on fire . ’ |
| 7 | Employment prospects were also at least as good and in some cases slightly better than for school leaver entrants . |
| 8 | The sense of belonging may inspire tears of joy or of repentance , or both at once as we continue in this intimate engagement , remembering : |
| 9 | The seller is probably at least as anxious to sell as you are to buy . |
| 10 | Cold and frightened , Beryl Hayden sat locked inside her Ford Escort on the M25 from 7pm until 1am as traffic roared past . |
| 11 | And we 're born se again spiritually from above as Jesus says in this chapter . |
| 12 | This , together with many variants and extensions to its basic pattern , is now at least as ingrained in the popular musical consciousness as the thirty-two-bar ballad form was between 1920 and 1950 . |
| 13 | This can be traced back as far at least as Lord Mansfield , who said : ‘ In all mercantile transactions the great object should be certainty and therefore it 's of more consequence that a rule should be certain , than whether the rule is established one way or the other . |
| 14 | As far at least as I was concerned , it did so with due cause . |
| 15 | Rules , in substance the same as those relating to solicitors ' accounts , and those concerning the permitted name of the firm and the need for proper supervision of offices , apply equally to overseas as to domestic practices , subject generally to the caveat that nothing in the Law Society 's Rules will override particular duties imposed on practitioners by the local law . |
| 16 | When Bill and Kevin and I looked at how we could cope with appraisal in our division , the numbers did n't work out as badly at least as I thought they were going to originally . |
| 17 | Well I 'm gon na put , I 'm just gon na put something else on there as well . |
| 18 | The beer is cheaper , and erm the women are pretty over here as well . |
| 19 | He 'd probably dismissed her altogether by now as fickle , shallow and all too easily swayed by other people . |
| 20 | I can sleep anywhere for just as long as I 've got . |
| 21 | Saturn 's brakes are well and truly on today as you are left to cool your heels with nothing special to do and no particular place to go . |
| 22 | He had played that part well , certainly at least as well as the actor who was to take over from him . |