Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , coupled with its socially exclusive ambiance , restricted it as effectively as in the past to a small group at the top of society . |
| 2 | The firm must identify the bank concerned ; ( 5 ) Before a firm undertakes margined transactions through an intermediate broker who is neither an authorised person nor an overseas person whose regulatory system requires segregation of client money ; ( 6 ) ( In most cases ) where the firm wishes to contract out of the client money regulations and is entitled to do so ; ( 7 ) If the firm wishes to hold client money of a private customer in a free money bank account outside the UK it must identify the country concerned and state whether the bank concerned has given the required acknowledgement as to client money status and that , if such acknowledgement had not been given , client money held with that bank might not be protected as effectively as in the UK . |
| 3 | So widows in large houses ( who always feature prominently in arguments about property taxes ) will not do as badly as under the rates . |
| 4 | But the stories have a universal appeal simply as stories , and it is good that the underlying programme seldom obtrudes as badly as in the gift-shop passage above , where the helpful aside about tourism affecting rural culture worldwide strikes a primary-school note . |
| 5 | The Hong Kong economy performed poorly in the first half of 1990 , but not nearly as badly as in the second half of 1989 when it had suffered from the international reaction to the upheavals in China . |
| 6 | It was just the same thing all over again , except that this time it took twice as long because of the interpreter . |
| 7 | All enquiries , whether ad hoc or by standard program , can be made of the accumulated file of past students just as easily as of the file of current students . |
| 8 | While George Boon rejected the suggestion that the very small coins were votive objects and may thus be found in some quantity on temple sites , he sensibly adds that there could have been a tendency for poor quality coins ‘ to gravitate to these shrines as easily as to the offertory of a country church ’ . |
| 9 | Although married women have won rights to benefit which are not affected by their marital status as directly as in the recent past , more women are being pushed beyond the reaches of the scheme altogether . |
| 10 | What has bitten ‘ us ’ , the transpersonal Gadarene motif of The Possessed , manifests itself through the dotty plan for a dinner just as eloquently as through the murder in the park . |
| 11 | In temperate forests , fungi and detritus eating insects can not work as quickly as in the tropics , and leaf litter builds up . |
| 12 | As early as in the 16th Century , Camden wrote about the scenery of the Lake District , with its ‘ bunching rocks and pretty hills ’ but it was another two centuries before this scenery became generally admired . |
| 13 | In reality , the asset would form part of the ‘ general pool ’ of plant and machinery and the tax benefit of the balancing allowance would not be realised as early as in the example . |
| 14 | This latter formulation would give the courts a greater scope for substitution of judgment , with the additional risk that they would not have to articulate their rationale as clearly as under the heads of purpose and relevancy . |
| 15 | The impact of a series of I 's in theme position is not the same as the impact of a series of verbs inflected for first person , such as ‘ saw-I ’ , ‘ took-I ’ , etc. , where it is difficult to discern a theme line as clearly as in the pronoun-plus-verb combination . |
| 16 | On passage birds are seen on inland waters , particularly the reservoirs , as often as on the coast . |
| 17 | Improved standards of living in the South would depend on increases in consumption of energy , but there was small prospect of its being consumed as efficiently as in the North . |
| 18 | The conclusion would seem to be that the early Anglo-Saxon countryside was not run as efficiently as in the following centuries . |
| 19 | ‘ Realism and politics ’ ( or at least social issues ) came back almost as strongly as in the 1930s , in the work of writers who often dropped the baton of innovation like a hot potato , vehemently rejecting modernism and experiment . |
| 20 | Hilton clearly attached great importance to this apostolate : he tells his nun that she will meet God in her visitors just as surely as in the solitude of her cell . |
| 21 | ‘ I decided that was the job that appealed and it 's just as well because at the interview I talked myself out of the other jobs by being so keen on the post office . ’ |
| 22 | At each stage — prior to drafting as well as at the end of each stage of drafting — teachers confer with pupils . |
| 23 | The programme scrupulously refused to attribute full maturity to either faction , dwelling on the bestial acts committed by animal rights terrorists — the Bristol University bombing and so on — as well as on the vile surgical mutilations which had provoked them , and Ian Breach 's presentation script was both deft and literate ; a model guide through these complex issues . |
| 24 | It welcomes in particular the agreements reached on insurance and public purchasing , … as well as on the final phase of air transport liberalization [ see below ] and on maritime cabotage " . |
| 25 | The General has frequent contact with Winnie Mandela — and through her indirectly with her husband - as well as with the ANC leadership . |
| 26 | In our relations with the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe as well as with the poverty-stricken peoples of the South , we will work from the principle that political freedom needs the sure foundation of economic security . |
| 27 | If it is a first baby , then both mother and father are inexperienced and are learning how to cope with the demands of the new infant as well as with the disruption in their own lives . |
| 28 | Seizing his opportunity immediately , Mr Chan grabbed at it and Ray Shepherd was soon wrestling with Mr Chan as well as with the wheel . |
| 29 | The reformers in the government temporarily won a truce , between themselves and the students as well as with the conservatives . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , military pilots are still required to qualify for an Airline Transport Pilots Licence soon after joining the Branch if they do not already possess one , since much of their investigating career is going to be closely concerned with civil regulations and civil operating techniques as well as with the technicalities of flying . |