Example sentences of "in the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kicked the blackguard in the guts as hard as I could , flogged him into insensibility , and dropped him in the canal . |
| 2 | Eva joined in the hilarity as much as anyone . |
| 3 | At night , on a dark moon , lying on my raised sleeping-platform at coconut level , the stars are reflected in the paddies as strongly as if down was up , and half this universe dances round me as the mating fireflies move through the trees and the house . |
| 4 | Bit bad , that ; probably in the dog-house as far as the lady wife was concerned , too , but then what was new ? |
| 5 | But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it . |
| 6 | Otherwise he concealed the fact that he was in the army as far as possible . |
| 7 | The imperial treasury had been seriously reduced by the war and substantial funds were needed to fill the depleted ranks in the army as rapidly as possible . |
| 8 | I am anxious beyond measure to be in the country as soon as possible … |
| 9 | Her condemnation of the home and family as the source of women 's subjection and inferiority , and her assertion that ‘ any woman who is really a rebel longs to destroy the conventions which bind her in the home as much as those which bind her in the state ’ , has a modern ring , although in practice her solution , like that of Florence Nightingale , amounted to a complete rejection of family life rather than a demand for its restructuring . |
| 10 | It is a hole in the head as far as the Irishman is concerned . |
| 11 | One has always to bear in mind that for very many people in early-modern England — in the towns as much as in the countryside — the home was also the place of work . |
| 12 | She joked with Victorine in the kitchen as quick as ever , then drank the last of her cup of coffee and got up . |
| 13 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |
| 14 | Former chief environmental health officer with the City of Westminster , Robert Crozier , said that there were no surprises in the document as much of the legislation was already covered in the Food Safety Act . |
| 15 | Stand in the middle of the border , tip the seeds on to the palm of your hand and throw them up in the air as high as you possibly can . |
| 16 | Built round a consortium approach the MBA facilitates the opportunity for interaction between managers from the I.T function and from elsewhere in the organisation as well as with their counterparts in other organisations . |
| 17 | Coaching , however , has not been developed in the UK as much as it should have been . |
| 18 | I then plant it in the substrate as deeply as possible . |
| 19 | For example , George Bourne was writing about its effects in the villages of Surrey in his Change in the Village as early as 1912 , by which time the railways had enabled a commuting population to inhabit the rural parts of the inner Home Counties . |
| 20 | We see the project as providing a focus for the work of junior researchers in the University as well as for the research of existing faculty members . |
| 21 | The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end . |
| 22 | The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end . |
| 23 | Anywhere in the north as far as I know . |
| 24 | Roll round in the gutter as much as you like , but do n't call me to tell me all about it . |
| 25 | The only snag to weighing fish immediately is that you should , as I have already mentioned , get your bait back in the water as quickly as possible when the bream are feeding . |
| 26 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 27 | Er we got leave to use it in the playground as far as I can imagine but we made an awful division or if we did n't it pretty quickly in the class . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've never had flooding in the past as catastrophic as this though , ’ Maggie protested . |
| 29 | Now yes this is very very welcome indeed , but I do see it Mr Chairman in the experience of the past and that really with the hard work that you both have put in as a piece of paper it is now in the computer as far as I can see and I think there is a term now within agriculture and I will give you an example of this and I think it now , it may apply I think to our road system particular particularly in the north , north Suffolk , yeah I think the term is set-aside , and I hope that some time central government will acknowledge that within this eastern region certainly the Lowestoft area and Waking area we have very great problems , because these pieces of jigsaw do not come into the full picture , they 're put in place now and then and later and in apparent it is giving us a very great problem certainly within the last |
| 30 | It 's thought the pilots stayed in the plane as long as possible to steer it away from a row of houses . |