Example sentences of "[verb] about as " in BNC.

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1 No all , all that , all that was going to be done was to see about as far as I 'm aware , the feasibility of get getting one of the Education Officers and one of the
2 And it 's something you might think about as well , sitting at home , do you think you 're going to need care in due course , and if so , where 's it going to come from ?
3 It 's nice no to be forgotten about as well .
4 The DT 2600 E has about as many features as can be squeezed on to a hot air gun .
5 Looking at the sorts of things that Paul writes about as well , you 'll see that there is a change in material ; up to now , he has been writing about Christian doctrine .
6 So there 's nothing to worry about as far as sharps or flats go .
7 Borland International Inc reports ‘ strong initial reception ’ to its long-delayed Windows version of Paradox , and says it expects to report profits of 10 cents a share for its fourth quarter to March 31 , double the average analyst forecast ; Microsoft Corp said it had sold about 700,000 copies of its new Access database program , and Borland says that its Paradox for Windows has done about as well .
8 Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get .
9 Somehow time , which in the Europe I had left was always being talked about as ‘ of the essence ’ , seemed of no account in this part of the world .
10 sort of thing we 've talked about as well with , with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Kings
11 I get about as pissed as a bloke can .
12 But that sounds about as positive as his suggestion that he would train up
13 All we know about As , for example , is that they have relation to R to Bs , relation R' to Cs , relation R'' to Ds , etc ; and similarly for our understanding of Bs , Cs and Ds , and the variety of Rs .
14 It 's pretty unlikely that this session will ever see the light of day on Strange Fruit , as the label 's last Wah release ‘ The Mighty Wah ’ proved about as popular as a motorway scheme through Kew Gardens .
15 Things like revenge , which you talk about as almost an Old Testament feeling , I see as completely now .
16 He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application .
17 Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get .
18 You want your body to get about as easily as possible and be able to do the things that your mind seizes on that you want to , to have a go at and to make a reasonable job of it .
19 This is what we 're talking about as well , it 's
20 Alright , so there 's this interest in what women talk about when they 're by themselves and when Martha comes down , she wants to know what the men have been talking about as well .
21 Ah well you see that 's what I 'm talking about as well , Napier are saying if your guys want to set the exams fine but we did in fact in the last exam paper find a fundamental flaw .
22 I I the retail 's not within what we 've been talking about this afternoon but on the other hand it does employ more people per hectare than any industry we 've been talking about as as far as as far as I understand it .
23 What natural selection does seem to care about as far as sex is concerned is that there is constant re-combination and this is a question of sexual that we 'll touch on later .
24 And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong .
25 Eh , start thinking about as much as
26 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology described the ozone losses shown by these measurements as " not very much less that in the Antarctic spring " although " the effects were less dramatic because the polar ozone was being resupplied about as fast as it was being destroyed " .
27 On the basis of these measurements , ozone losses in the Arctic winter appear to be " not very much less than in the Antarctic spring " says Alan Plumb of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , " but the effects are less dramatic because polar ozone is being resupplied about as fast as it is being destroyed . "
28 The verdict was that Horsley had about as clean a bill of health as it was possible for a real , live capitalist to have .
29 Lead about as big as that , all go in slots or .
30 Wheatstone 's work in telegraphy seemed to show that electricity travelled about as fast as light , and Faraday believed that it must go just as fast ; he also believed that gravity must be analogous to other attractive forces , and take time for its propagation , though there was no evidence for this .
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