Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the opening of the Sterling Commercial Paper ( SCP ) market in 1986 , there have been regular issues but the market has not developed as quickly as national ( as opposed to euro ) commercial paper markets in many other European countries . |
| 2 | EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada . |
| 3 | The rapidly rising birth rate is only part of the explanation , since the birth rate has not risen as fast as urban populations have increased . |
| 4 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 5 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 6 | This sector of the market has not expanded as rapidly as expected . |
| 7 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 8 | But it is naïve to assume that the LDDC has always operated as effectively as some reports would suggest . |
| 9 | Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice . |
| 10 | These attain elevations in excess of 3000m and much of this uplift has probably occurred as recently as the Late Quaternary . |
| 11 | The silence — for the sound of birds and sea adds up to silence as beautifully as we ever know it in the noisy world of today — together with the sweetly moving air , and the scents of thyme and bell heather and sun-warmed bracken , all combined to distil something very potent . |
| 12 | Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned ! |
| 13 | Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped . |
| 14 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 15 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 17 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 18 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 19 | He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour . |
| 20 | There is little doubt that Hamer have achieved what they set out to do as far as producing great vintage guitar tones from contemporary instruments . |
| 21 | The reasons most women offer for extramarital sex — boredom and a need for drama and excitement — ring fairly hollow as far as I am concerned . |
| 22 | ‘ Some people have suggested that people end up going as fast as 70mph , ’ said Mr Rose . |
| 23 | The light of the lamp did not reach as far as the high ceiling , and the fire had burned low . |
| 24 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 25 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 26 | The majority of the National Executive did not go as far as Marchbanks but warned several of the leading participants in the Petition campaign that disciplinary action would be taken against them ( as against Cripps ) if they continued in their support for it . |
| 27 | Because of the recession , there is a prospect that more of that money will flow back out of Washington afterwards in refunds to taxpayers who did not do as well as in the past . |
| 28 | Roger did not do as well as hoped in his ‘ A ’ levels , but will probably go to Birmingham to do a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 29 | The third method Engels accepted from Morgan concerned the idea that , although systems of kinship terms were first moulded by systems of marriage , the kin terms did not change as easily as the system of marriage . |
| 30 | A recent claim by an accident and emergency consultant in Sheffield that children , and even adults , could regrow their finger tips , providing that the injury did not extend as far as the terminal or end joint , was greeted with considerable scepticism by the medical profession . |