Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [coord] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout , his banter came as thick and fast as softshelled crab , only halting as he paused to take a slurp from his Dixie Beer or to wipe the steam off the camera lens . |
| 2 | The Faculty of Homoeopathy would certainly concur with Simon Crawford 's view that it is absolutely unethical for any medicine to be sold as natural and especially as homoeopathic if it were to include pharmacologically active ingredients , whether hormonal or otherwise . |
| 3 | They had to be unloaded and distributed as fast and safely as possible . |
| 4 | Hence , class conflict is viewed as inevitable and indeed as the only major source of conflict in capitalist society . |
| 5 | How often have we plodding climbers and walkers set them off and thought to ourselves : ‘ I wish I could travel as fast and effortlessly as that . ’ |
| 6 | The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 . |
| 7 | Some may be characterised as predominantly transaction orientated : that is , obtain the brief from the client and work as hard and fast as possible to fill that particular job , that being both the goal and the result . |
| 8 | The young man stood as stiff and straight as the church columns around him . |