Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We have never given up hope , especially as everyone in the North West was fighting for us , ’ added Fran .
2 People are already beginning to think of pre- and post-AIDS periods just as we in the seventies grew accustomed to thinking of pre- and post-gay liberation periods .
3 Zak 's long scene began with impressive fireworks as soon as everyone in the dining car had been served with a drink .
4 The letter of the law was observed in so far as none of the names of the actual raped women were mentioned .
5 At first the freemen of both town and country had an organization and a type of property which still retained something of the communal as well as something of the private , but in the town a radical transformation was taking place .
6 And then arrangements had to be made to transport his cats as well as himself to the new flat .
7 In 1946 it was recognised as a dual-purpose breed and the herdbook was divided , with a section for dairy Lincoln Reds as well as one for the beef animals .
8 Cyrene , like Syracuse , was culturally cosmopolitan , so that for instance its art owes a clear debt to Athens , witness the bronze head from the mid-fifth century , in the style of Phidias ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate xxiv , 3–4 ) ; it was multi-racial , so that the sixth-century reformer Demonax allowed one tribe for the native ‘ dwellers round about ’ , as well as one for the old Greek settlers and one for new arrivals ( Hdt. iv.161 , cp. 159.4 ) .
9 How is it possible for an external symbol , as well as one in the internal representational medium of the creature 's mind , to be employed by one animal and perceived by another as a request for a specific tool ?
10 ‘ Eleven-Eleven ’ contains all three tracks from Come 's recent single , as well as one from the ‘ Car ’ 12″ , but that 's my only quibble .
11 ‘ I am top of the averages of the England bowlers selected and I think I am bowling as well as anyone in the side at the moment .
12 Even worse , the European empires at least left behind them working administrative structures and moderately healthy economies , which meant that most of the ex-colonial countries have managed to maintain stable states and thriving economies — although , of course , not thriving as fast as ours in the west — but the Soviet empire is leaving no administration at all , only economic catastrophe .
13 I trained as often and as hard as I could , as hard as anybody on the staff — and that includes my old pal Bryan Robson , who was notorious for his unflagging effort — but the pain was excruciating .
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