Example sentences of "as [adv] [subord] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A GROUP of American breast-cancer patients who were given supportive therapy and taught self-hypnosis to deal with pain survived for twice as long as women who received routine cancer care . |
| 2 | It does n't dispense with the observation of nature and it works on us as familiarly as nature itself . ’ |
| 3 | As early as April he wrote that he was going to start ‘ fishing around … all the opera people ’ to be allowed to produce an opera . |
| 4 | But as far as Jesus himself , and the events surrounding his life , are concerned , there is an absence of definitive knowledge . |
| 5 | As far as women who would be Christian are concerned , how may they see in the Godhead an image of themselves ? |
| 6 | Erm you did n't actually get as far as ANNA I do n't think did you ? |
| 7 | The eating of human flesh and the drinking of human blood in order to absorb the qualities of the deceased are practices which seem to date back as far as humankind itself . |
| 8 | A harmonic got as far as Hrun himself , currently fighting a couple of gnolls on a crumbling ledge high in the Caderack Mountains , and caused him a moment 's unexplained discomfort . |
| 9 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 10 | Later , new ports were developed at Sunderland Point and Glasson for larger ships than could negotiate the estuary as far as Lancaster itself . |
| 11 | As far as Finmere it is now the main road to Buckingham ( A421 ) . |
| 12 | From the kick-off , Bordon forced a corner which was cleared only as far as Duffin who volleyed in from 15 yards . |
| 13 | He made her a bow , lighter and smaller than his , until she could shoot with it almost as well as Allen himself , though not so far because the light bow would n't carry . |
| 14 | These variations on the E- theme are taking off almost as fast as E itself . |
| 15 | Knighted in June 1641 , as late as December he urged consultation with the king over suppression of the Irish rebellion . |