Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But smoking was obviously kosher as far as this old bat went . |
| 2 | But it was still kosher as far as Albert Roger Quigley was concerned . |
| 3 | Fish are unable to spawn as their breeding grounds are buried or destroyed by sand banks created by the dredgers , whose operations render water undrinkable as far as 60 km downstream . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There are thousands of Wealden houses which survive , though few as early as Pattenden . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That having been said , it is true that attack is predicted by other postures only about half as well as escape . |
| 9 | Whereas pre-marital foreplay averages thirty-two minutes , foreplay between married partners lasts only just over half as long at a rather hasty seventeen minutes . |
| 10 | In these problem areas , the UK contributed around 20 per cent of the sulphur , over half as much again as any other country . |
| 11 | But cars are about half as much again as in Britain . |
| 12 | The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 . |
| 13 | On top of this , the Second Delors Package ( which adds ‘ cohesion ’ money to ‘ structural aid ’ , farm support and the rest of it ) could add up to half as much again . |
| 14 | In the " Old Rental " of 1682 certain properties were described as " Proper lands " and were " supposed " to be the benefaction of Sir Edmond ; according to the Goldsmiths ' records they were yielding only 56 13 4d a year between 1671 and 1720 , or only a little more than half as much again as the rent receivable two centuries earlier . |
| 15 | My very ordinary London flat costs about half as much again as my flat in Glasgow , which is an infinitely superior building in which to live in every respect . |
| 16 | The Government is spending over half as much again more than Labour did when they were last in power . |
| 17 | Thus the teaching of certain forms of knowledge has been regarded by some as intrinsically worthwhile ; whilst others have regarded certain principles of procedure , such as enquiry-discovery learning , in much the same way . |
| 18 | Look , you 've got some as well except |
| 19 | I 'm gon na get some as well you know because I 've only got one and it 's brown , it 's disgusting in it ? |
| 20 | Seen by some as just a price/performance kicker in its initial guises , Intel is having well-documented problems in getting yields of the more important 66MHz part ( UX No 410 ) , and is reportedly still unable to get power consumption on the thing down to four watts . |
| 21 | The material in the preceding section will be seen by some as both uncontroversial and trivial , but it forms a basic backcloth for the argument being developed in this book . |
| 22 | A weak sun was about to rise , turning the darkness to a dusty grey : their horses plodded along the frozen track , both riders taking special care against the potholes , some as deep as a man , which could bring down and even kill both the unwary rider and his horse . |
| 23 | It measured just 233 yards for Ryder Cup week and was described by some as either the best , or worst hole , on the course . |
| 24 | You know , the number and I mean has n't been able to get round to buying space in the T T G and Travel Weekly until the first two weeks in February cos we were so late in informing him I must had this conversation has taken away the brochure so there 's not a copy here but we 'll try and get hold of some as soon as possible but I mean they 're mainly for Glasgow but had been been up there from R and D y'know and she said that the people up there did n't seem to know the slightest thing about interline how to deal with interline tickets and agency tickets and all that sort of business . |
| 25 | They were pursued , some into the Till , where many drowned and some swam to safety — if it was indeed safety , so far into England — on the further side , some as far north as the Tweed and the border , thirteen miles away . |
| 26 | The Skybolt crisis of December 1962 has been described by some as perhaps potentially more serious even than Suez , with the start of the meeting in Nassau proving the " angriest " of any Anglo-American postwar summit . |
| 27 | Photosetters such as the Linotron 101 produce 1270 dots per inch and this is regarded by some as still being insufficient . |
| 28 | National Meteorological Archive ( Bracknell ) Climatological data covering the British Isles have been gathered , some as early as 1900 . |
| 29 | For example , you can seal the gap between the hardboard and the frame with masking tape , but make sure that you do this as neatly as possible . |
| 30 | Never fear , my friend , I am in this as anxiously and earnestly as you . |