Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] [subord] the " in BNC.
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1 | Mrs Symons was , as a matter of fact , a frequent visitor to this house before the war ; indeed , she was among the most popular as far as the staff were concerned due to the kind appreciation she never shied from showing . |
2 | But I imagine this often happens — people are for all practical purposes sane as far as the analyst 's door and become mad as they stretch themselves out and explain their sanity . |
3 | Niall might be free as far as the law was concerned , but he had been the injured party , the one left to pick up the pieces when the woman he must have loved walked out . |
4 | It was this very situation — one where the workers themselves could take control of the struggle , organise and demand on their own behalf — which was not acceptable as far as the trade union bureaucracy and leadership were concerned . |
5 | On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) . |
6 | The UK solution to the need for a continuous and systematic comparison of the two is to keep them separate as far as the double-entry is concerned but to report them side-by-side . |
7 | Therefore , a work may be easy in one respect and hard in others ; for example , Silkin 's short poem ‘ The Worm ’ is straightforward as far as the vocabulary and sentence structure are concerned but , even so , the meaning of the poem is by no means transparent . |
8 | We were lucky in finding something to drink but unfortunate as far as the crumpet was concerned . |
9 | A fan ran on the pitch and attempted to approach Walsh after the sending-off as early as the 14th minute . |
10 | The former won , which was all to the good as far as the SAS was concerned . |
11 | Large ferns were present as early as the Upper Devonian and different genera as large or larger were significant components of forests during the Carboniferous to Cenozoic . |
12 | Defeat was followed by a yet greater humiliation : Spain 's loss of the final remnants — Cuba , Puerto Rico and the Philippines — of a vast overseas empire , conquered during the sixteenth century and still intact as late as the early nineteenth . |
13 | After the route closed , the track remained intact as far as the depot , which still stored surplus seasonal cars . |
14 | That 's right as far as the arm is concerned we 've got to be cautious , there . |
15 | That commitment was evident as early as the 14th minute when international midfielder Jim Bett struck a vicious drive from the edge of the penalty area . |
16 | It was a deserved win for the Dons , whose threat was evident as early as the fifth minute when Scott Booth outpaced Mike Galloway on the right to send in a cross which narrowly evaded the outstretched Duncan Shearer . |
17 | It was a deserved win for the Dons , whose threat was evident as early as the fifth minute when Scott Booth outpaced Mike Galloway on the right to send in a cross which narrowly evaded the outstretched Duncan Shearer . |
18 | This was particularly evident as far as the young were concerned . |
19 | ‘ Allowing for the recovery period is also important as far as the next cooking cycle is concerned . |
20 | But we got some of that pressure off right away , and I think it proved very important as far as the way the tournament went from then on . |
21 | Although these matters may not be particularly important as far as the haematological features are concerned , they certainly are with respect to ventilation . |
22 | Correct measurement of doors and windows is particularly important as far as the moving of furniture is concerned . |
23 | The thesis of ‘ The intentional fallacy ’ , that the meaning of the words in a text is , and should be treated as , a matter of public knowledge , seems wholly unexceptionable as far as the dictionary-definition ( the ‘ denotation ’ ) of words is concerned ; but it seems much more problematic when one takes account of the broader associations that words carry with them ( ‘ connotations ’ ) . |
24 | The first sign of the present pattern of occurrence is detectable as early as the winter of 1953/54 , but an increase has been most marked since the winter of 1961/62 . |
25 | A curriculum that genuinely values the practical as highly as the theoretical or academic must be geared to a public assessment system that does the same , and from which only the severely mentally handicapped , and not all of them , will need to be totally excluded . |
26 | His profound sense of fatalism becomes apparent as early as the last paragraph of his very first speech : ‘ … every few years there is still a case , and as the parties tell me what the trouble is , … the thought comes in that … another lawyer , quite differently dressed , heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
27 | On the subject of rest , you twitched a bit when Palin was referring to feeling weary as early as the second day . |
28 | It 's difficult as far as the alternatives are concerned , is that no alternatives , but effectively it 's about four times the cost to administer , because you can dip a hundred sheep off one of the er , packs and it 's a smaller pack . |
29 | Erm we 've had a , a major accident in nineteen fifty er ninety fifty seven , one of the Winscale small reactors at Winscale caught fire er the Americans had an accident at Three Mile Island which erm w was catastrophic as far as the reactor was concerned , but the safety devices prevented any radioactivity escaping the Russians have had their Three Mile I er their erm Chernobyl accident which was catastrophic . |
30 | In fact , I consider this vital as far as the therapeutic value of the treatment is concerned . |