Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is naïve to assume that the LDDC has always operated as effectively as some reports would suggest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These attain elevations in excess of 3000m and much of this uplift has probably occurred as recently as the Late Quaternary . |
| 4 | Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned ! |
| 5 | One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man . |
| 6 | One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out . |
| 7 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 10 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 11 | Im usually pissed off enough as it is . |
| 12 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 13 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 14 | Negotiations were conducted in great secrecy when the manuscripts had already got as far as the freeport in Zurich and were being examined by two well backed dealers and by representatives of the Getty Museum . |
| 15 | But when I saw it tonight I had just struggled as far as the road . |
| 16 | These had always done quite well as buses were not then allowed on Anerley Hill . |
| 17 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 18 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |
| 19 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
| 20 | One bar had even gone so far as to put a few tables outside , and on impulse Zen settled down to enjoy the sunlight and watch the show on the Corso . |
| 21 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 22 | From one fairly typical grammar school , studied by Colin Lacey , the fee-payers had almost disappeared as early as 1925 . |
| 23 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 24 | In all my years on newspapers , I 've never gone as far as breaking and entering . |
| 25 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 've never eaten as well as I have on this trip . ’ |
| 27 | Some providers have already gone as far as to produce prospectuses outlining their services . |
| 28 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 29 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
| 30 | Some dealers have even gone so far as to pass off their businesses as zoos ( see BBC WILDLIFE , November , p798 ) . |