Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other acts sought to prohibit as far as possible corrupt practices and limited the amount of money a candidate could spend on election expenses . |
| 2 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
| 3 | Moreover , the North American Securities Administration Association has gone so far as to accuse the South Pacific micro-states of Nauru , Vanuatu , Tonga and the Marshall and Northern Mariana Islands of being ‘ international centres of prostitute banking ’ . |
| 4 | My right hon. and learned Friend has said as clearly as possible that he regards the second London terminal at King 's Cross as an intrinsic part of the scheme . |
| 5 | Kevin McKenna , from Manchester Wythenshaw , said : ‘ No industry has failed as comprehensively as the prison industry . |
| 6 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 7 | Conran has gone so far as ending catwalk exhibitions totally in favour of presentation by video . |
| 8 | As this list also reminds us , journalists seem to worry as much as sociologists about their proper analytical role . |
| 9 | Already a £4.1 billion industry , quick-service restaurants continue to expand as quickly as ever , despite the economic trend . |
| 10 | Edgar managed to get as far as the door . |
| 11 | Mummy led Bully as far as the starting-place for her , then handed the rope-lead to Angela . |
| 12 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 13 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 14 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |
| 15 | Only because of Labour proposals and actions have schools managed to deal as well as they have with L M S. Congratulations , I say , go to the Labour Group . |
| 16 | The car remained crowded as far as Holborn and then the passengers thinned out . |
| 17 | Our own days in the palm-frond houses seemed to dwindle as quickly as sand through a sieve . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The study of the distribution of exotic imported goods within England has extended as far as noting that there are two basic patterns to their distribution , apparently depending on their sources , and that particular areas or individual cemeteries have disproportionately high quantities of some of these goods . |
| 20 | But you want to be sure that your parents get to hear as soon as possible that you are safe , do n't you ? … |
| 21 | Severus managed to get as far as the Montrose region and perhaps briefly beyond that : tantalizingly , in 1869 labourers on the Duke of Sutherland 's railway extension to Helmsdale and ultimately to Thurso in distant Caithness unearthed a collection of Roman bronze coins in a region never held and supposedly never reached by imperial forces . |
| 22 | The NUS has announced a radical set of new voting rules that the ruling executive committee hopes to introduce as soon as possible . |
| 23 | Working with a partner , A asks B open questions , which B tries to answer as briefly as possible . |
| 24 | A asks B closed questions , which B tries to answer as expansively as possible . |
| 25 | In his usual thrusting manner , he fought inside McLaren to get the engine put to use as soon as possible , knowing full well that engine development on a bench or in testing is very different to developing an engine that will be competitive under the stress of FI racing . |
| 26 | In Classical antiquity there were connections between Europe and India even before the conquests of Alexander had extended as far as the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent . |
| 27 | Moves for peace had begun as early as summer 1904 , when it was becoming apparent that the struggle would be long drawn out . |
| 28 | His plan had misfired as badly as mine . |
| 29 | The Protestant reformers wanted to return as far as possible to the spirit of primitive Christianity and looked askance at the mystical tradition which seemed to have no warrant in Scripture . |
| 30 | You may not be thirsty , but your body needs to rehydrate as soon as possible . |