Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local government capital expenditure is ‘ cash limited ’ , but current expenditure is cash limited only as far as the overall total of the Rate Support Grant ( RSG ) 3 is concerned . |
| 2 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
| 3 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 4 | The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin . |
| 5 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 6 | Tendrils of Virginia creeper crept down as far as the window-frame , and progressed on little circular suckers across the glass , at huge vegetable speed . |
| 7 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |
| 8 | ‘ I know I can direct just as badly as the people who made all those clinkers with me , ’ he joked . |
| 9 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 10 | The dance music is both fiery and resilient , and the mystic landscape of the famous epilogue so tantalisingly evoked that value judgements fade away as surely as the music 's vision itself . |
| 11 | Not feeling up to arguing the point , she left quietly , knowing everyone else in the Carlisle Flint team was wound up as tight as the drivers , waiting for the green light . |
| 12 | Converters made of chromite and copper oxide were considered as long ago as the 1970s , but ruled out because they proved less effective than those containing the more precious metals . |
| 13 | But yes , the trend is the same as the national one , there is an increase in arson , possibly that 's also influenced by the fact that we 're better at detecting arson and we 're becoming increasingly more so as the years go by , and calls that would have been recorded as unknown in the past , would now be recorded as this . |
| 14 | He writes that , having ‘ grabbed ’ Bosnia at the Congress of Berlin in 1878 , the Habsburgs ‘ soon demonstrated that they could rule just as viciously as the Turks . ’ |
| 15 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 16 | Latvian tombs , hoards of treasure found in Estonia , jewellery , statuettes and household articles discovered in Poland , together with objects from the Byzantine and Islamic worlds illustrate how this people of warriors and merchants expanded eastward as far as the Caliphate of Baghdad , while excavations in ‘ Norman ’ territory ( at Downham in Norfolk and in the vicinity of Rouen ) provide proof of Norse expansionism in another direction . |
| 17 | It is clear that the accounts of miracles in the Bible are written just as factually as the accounts of other events . |
| 18 | The trouble is that his men have done just as badly as the old guard . |
| 19 | The increase in the use of HP , though less marked , is important as HP is used for expensive purchases which are unlikely to crop up as often as the smaller ones financed by other types of credit . |
| 20 | If it does not show up well enough as the screen dump replace with the following text : |
| 21 | A powerful challenge to such approaches was made as long ago as the 1930s by Professor E. E. Evans-Pritchard who lived with and studied the Azande of Central Africa , a technologically simple society whom Europeans therefore tended to assume were intellectually simple as well . |
| 22 | And this was just one of a number of sites , known only to Halim and his team , where the early Chinese mariners had buried their dead together , as was their custom , with porcelain some of which had been fired in the imperial kilns of the Sung and Ming dynasties and dated back as far as the eleventh century . |
| 23 | It could date back as far as the middle of the ninth century and was closely associated with the later castle . |
| 24 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 25 | The epicentre was near Bishops Castle in Shropshire , but the shaking was felt as far afield as the intensity 2 area . |
| 26 | Its influence is felt as far away as the London Underground , which is having its new , networked , interactive time-tabling system , Cart , programmed by a Delhi firm , CMC . |
| 27 | The shock of the sinking was felt as far away as the World 's Edge Mountains and is recorded in the chronicles of the Dwarf kings . |
| 28 | In the second year , there is an in-depth examination of Scotland since 1660 ; this brings out how many aspects of modern Scotland were shaped as long ago as the late seventeenth century . |
| 29 | On slightly narrower 165/65 section tyres it seems to grip almost as well as the G40 , while its steering seems , if anything , a tad sharper . |
| 30 | To mimic this , we should have to speed up our stroboscope so that its flashes came twice as fast as the cycles of mains electricity , which are not noticed in a fluorescent strip light . |