Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual way of expressing Boyle 's law , however , is Thus , when a gas is allowed to expand ( or is compressed ) at constant temperature from an initial volume of V1 to a final volume of V2 , the final pressure P2 can be calculated so long as the initial pressure Pl is known . |
| 2 | In its original form , it is a time-consuming and complicated procedure , but it can be simplified so long as the underlying principles are honoured ( see Arnold , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | His godson , Harry Hubbard , is a young Agency aspirant who joins up just as the Cold War is getting hot . |
| 4 | Like many Oxford men , he belonged to the strong Socratic tradition in which dialogue was esteemed as highly as the written word . |
| 5 | The German Communist Party had not only failed to carry out.the revolution but had vanished as rapidly as the Social Democrats . |
| 6 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 7 | The Colourcode play funk as hard as the Red Hot Chili Peppers , but with the feel that the Chilis so obviously lack on their heavy-handed interpretation of Stevie Wonder 's ‘ Higher Ground ’ . |
| 8 | The Colourcode play funk as hard as the Red Hot Chili Peppers , but with the feel that the Chilis so obviously lack on their heavy-handed interpretation of Stevie Wonder 's ‘ Higher Ground ’ . |
| 9 | Traditionally , the more active members have tended to belong to local groups , and the numbers of groups and group members have not grown as fast as the national membership . |
| 10 | The world of this novel is as much his country as the wild , half-derelict countrified pockets around the rapidly developing suburbia of Wimbledon , Kensington , and Battersea which the fictitious Philip and Arthur explored as thoroughly as the real Arthur Hardy and Edward had explored the parts of London commons which they called ‘ Our Country ’ . |
| 11 | This slope climbs as abruptly as the southern slopes of the Montagne de Reims , starting at 100 metres and rising quickly to 200 metres . |
| 12 | The mean autocorrelation score for the random samples from this generator was 38 28 , and only a very small proportion of samples ( less than 1 in 1,000 ) scored as highly as the recorded e.p.s.p. histogram . |
| 13 | For the investor , however , multiplicity creates opportunity , and the next Bookish Portfolio stands to prosper so long as the creative process is allowed to flower . |
| 14 | Equally , in the words of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills ( 1936 P.C. ) ‘ there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter ; a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description . ’ |
| 15 | As Lord Wright said in Grant v Australian Knitting Mills Ltd [ 1936 ] AC 85 : It may also be pointed out that there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter : a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description , eg woollen undergarments , a hot-water bottle , a second-hand reaping machine , to select a few obvious illustrations . |
| 16 | These attain elevations in excess of 3000m and much of this uplift has probably occurred as recently as the Late Quaternary . |
| 17 | erm well it does n't necessary apply that the agent is suing the name , the question is whether , what any right the agent has got , er the fact of the matter is as I understand it and tell me if I 'm wrong , that your client has erm received a demand under clause nine er , er which he has failed to comply , I think that must follow because er if he had complied with it , then that would never of got as far as the central fund |
| 18 | The otter was the only strictly European species to make it into the overall ‘ Top 10 ’ , though badger , fox and hedgehog all got as far as the top 20 . |
| 19 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 20 | Having got as far as the inverted stage , the easiest answer is to pull the stick back and perform a ha If loop to recover ( again , that 's why you needed lots of height ) . |
| 21 | They all lifted their arms in unison , and a battery of flashlights went off , making the jewel-like colours of each robe shimmer as vibrantly as the vivid hues of the glass in the shop window . |
| 22 | The sales patter flowed as freely as the corporate wine , but how well was it going down with potential investors … |
| 23 | The letter O , for instance , does not occur very often as the final letter in a four letter word , but is common as the second letter . |
| 24 | It becomes a bonfire in autumn , but strangely does not burn so brightly as the green-leafed type distinguished as viridis . |
| 25 | The radiation that strikes the Earth — or at least gets as far as the outer atmosphere — is of two main kinds . |
| 26 | Therefore it is a matter of cultivating the interior images which last as long as the human being lives . |
| 27 | There is even evidence to suggest that elephants existed as far as the Upper Euphrates basin as late as the first millennium B.C. Syrian ivory contributed to the supplies available to New Kingdom Egypt and at the same time provided the material for the flourishing school of ivory workers based on Tyre , the products of which enriched the civilizations of the east Mediterranean and Assyria . |
| 28 | Caroline stepped back quickly as the heavy velvet curtain descended . |
| 29 | Directly across the channel was another , bigger bay , a long curving stretch of lovely white sand , with above it a sweep of green turf and bracken rising as far as the dark circle of the broch . |
| 30 | It is not perhaps generally realised that this practice began as early as the late seventeenth century and that many of the splendid coloured aquatint books of the nineteenth century first reached the public in this way . |