Example sentences of "[verb] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was really what one would describe as almost a complete takeover . |
| 2 | My garden is what I would describe as fairly small , and typical of the back garden normally packaged with a terraced house . |
| 3 | I ca n't see any way out but a subscription list , to be organised as soon as possible . |
| 4 | The posture is organised as carefully as the length of the red tags or the Sta-prest or the hair . |
| 5 | That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores . |
| 6 | She fiercely ignored a small internal voice that warned her there was a fat chance of that coming to pass as far as he was concerned . |
| 7 | It amounts to a determination or tendency to accept as conceptually respectable , and as a report of reality , only what is in accord with some part of scientific practice , or a fully specified calculus , or particular and explicit scientific laws , or particular kinds of quantification , or some principle in the philosophy of science . |
| 8 | Already , in expectation , the four archbishops had produced a pastoral letter in which they condemned the legalizing of divorce on the grounds of the preservation of ‘ the common good ’ and because they feared the tendency that people had to accept as right that which was legally permissible ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1985 ) . |
| 9 | Let us suppose that in fact there are not more than 600 quarters , the holders of which are willing to accept as low a price as 35s. ; but that holders of another hundred would be tempted by 36s. ; and holders of yet another three hundred by 37s . |
| 10 | Like many Oxford men , he belonged to the strong Socratic tradition in which dialogue was esteemed as highly as the written word . |
| 11 | They should also press for the training necessary to enable them to carry out their duties of securing provision for individual pupils and working to ensure that special education is esteemed as highly as any other form of education within a system in which schools will have greater control over resources and the setting of priorities for their use . |
| 12 | Thomas lies as naturally as other men breathe , if he told truth he would be untrue to himself . |
| 13 | Can I be clear please I I 'm sorry Mr , can I just be clarif clarified as far as E N V Eleven is concerned , which pond this is in terms of names ? |
| 14 | Other Coalition Liberals were disliked as warmly as Lloyd George , more for their present policies than for their past . |
| 15 | In contrast to the functionalist , then , who sees the capacity of the human being to communicate as simply a vehicle for the ‘ activation ’ of imposed cultural rules , for the action theorist this capacity is the essential creative ingredient in social life . |
| 16 | Ravens Corvus corax and snowy owls Nyctea scandiaca ( Watson , 1957 ) are among the hardiest residents ; snowy owls have been reported as far north as 82N on Ellesmere Island in winter ( Gessaman , 1978 ) . |
| 17 | The burning oil wells of Kuwait continue to cause widespread air pollution , notably in the form of " black rain " , which has been reported as far away as Bulgaria , Afghanistan and Pakistan . |
| 18 | General and life insurers and securities traders were reported as more optimistic . |
| 19 | Debate in the early days of the new Assembly was reported as more lively than previously , and opposition members were said to be testing the government 's receptiveness to reform : 32 members called for the formation of a committee to investigate Kuwait 's failure to anticipate or respond to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] ; several members were said to have demanded an investigation of alleged mishandling of Kuwait 's overseas investments ; and a draft law was introduced that would widen the franchise , including extending the vote to women . |
| 20 | Despite the Geneva conference requirement that heavy weapons in the area be placed under UN supervision from Sept. 12 [ see above ] , renewed artillery attacks were reported as early as Sept. 14 in Sarajevo ( which was suffering severe water and electricity shortages as supply lines were interrupted ) . |
| 21 | It gives me great pleasure to announce that that would mean Cherwell District Council would have to disappear as well , and that would be another blip off the horizon erm but that what would happen you would therefore have a smaller authority , who would then become the Education Authority , and that would be would have to be , I think , somewhere in between the current District Council size in Cherwell or the Vale , of what about a hundred thousand , and the present county , which is rather more than half a million . |
| 22 | However , as Ketamine lacks the euphoric and social properties that led o the widespread use of MDMA , the drug is likely to disappear as suddenly as it seems to have emerged . |
| 23 | ‘ Or crowded , ’ Fernando bemoaned as nevertheless he gathered her into his arms . |
| 24 | The 8.16 from Darlington and the returning 10.38 behaved as impeccably as the reception class at a Victorian Sunday school . |
| 25 | I found it helpful that Mrs McLaren behaved as naturally ( or perhaps as unnaturally ) as her companion had done . |
| 26 | He was completely satisfied with the explanation ; the lawsuit was to be discontinued as far as he himself was concerned , and he had written to Mr. Jennings asking him to withdraw as well . |
| 27 | Punch opened the door and stood aside to let them pass , Lyddy pressing as close to Alexandra as she dared . |
| 28 | ( Send as soon as possible ) . |
| 29 | If you are interested in this new SIG , then please send as soon as possible your name and address with affiliation to Prof S Misbah Deen , University of Keele , Staffs . |
| 30 | Both Soviet and British spheres of influence should be discouraged as far as possible , though it was accepted that such spheres would be among the inescapable facts of contemporary life . |