Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sylvia Pedder sometimes has to go as far as Cumbria to see her relatives . |
| 2 | Our own days in the palm-frond houses seemed to dwindle as quickly as sand through a sieve . |
| 3 | As this list also reminds us , journalists seem to worry as much as sociologists about their proper analytical role . |
| 4 | This was something which the inhabitants were not going to overlook as lightly as Charles had done . |
| 5 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 6 | In November 1990 , King Hussein of Jordan expressed concern that the burning of Kuwait 's oil ( an action the Iraqi leader , Saddam Hussein , threatened to take as early as September 1990 if the United States and its allies attempted to oust him ) would accelerate global warming significantly . |
| 7 | On the same day , the mascaret , a river-bore which had been known to reach as far as Paris , was sweeping up the Seine . |
| 8 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 9 | We 'd only have to walk as far as Bingley . |
| 10 | ‘ It would have to play up just as Sybil was going to tell me something important , ’ she complained . |
| 11 | But they did manage to get as far as Wales , where the foothills of Snowdonia passed for the Karakoram mountains . |
| 12 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 13 | EUROTUNNEL 'S share price continued to fall sharply yesterday as Andre Benard , the consortium 's French co-chairman , conceded that the £2bn cost overrun on the Channel tunnel was causing ‘ serious problems ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ The length of a cricket pitch , and you had to move as fast as Denis Compton , believe you me , to get from one end to the other and pull them levers . ’ |