Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let hair dry naturally as often as you can . |
| 2 | Along Heygate Street last night there was n't a pedestrian in sight and cars drove through as fast as they could . |
| 3 | The trunk was studded with knot-holes spaced for climbing and the naked branches spun upwards as evenly as the treads of a spiral staircase . |
| 4 | A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 5 | The French boat slipped away as silently as it had arrived . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Giles shouted back as loudly as he could . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been asked by the Cancer Research Campaign to press on as fast as possible . ’ |
| 9 | The patrols pass here as regularly as always . |
| 10 | The origins of this philosophy go back as far as 1970 when Shell and the Nature Conservancy first devised a competition aimed at encouraging young people to come up with ideas to conserve their local environment . |
| 11 | The Sound of Music : Newcastle Theatre Royal ANY production of this popular classic has its work cut out as far as most critics are concerned . |
| 12 | She had a burning need to get this ridiculous misunderstanding sorted out as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | In Scotia and in Orkney , the work went on as fast as resources would allow , and more speedily than it might once have done because of the cleared roads and the stations of help that now existed through the newborn network of local churches and local leadership . |
| 14 | Scotland went ahead as early as the ninth minute when George Gemmell crashed the ball home after Tom Brown 's cut-back . |
| 15 | The battle continued up as far as Wight and across to France and Gravelines until , as the world knows , ‘ God blew with his wind and they were scattered ’ . |
| 16 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The domestic dog is thought to have evolved from the wolf , yet wolves and other wild dogs bark about as often as they appear at Crufts . |
| 21 | The journey into town took twice as long as it should . |
| 22 | Apart from the personal attacks , its indictment of her political and ideological ideas went back as far as 1978 when she published her novel Await . |
| 23 | This impression is confirmed by a conversation Eliot had with George Seferis , the Greek poet , in which he explained how uncomfortable he felt when he was forced to take shelter in an underground station during the blitz : " I would feel the need to get out as quickly as possible , to escape all those faces gathered there , to escape all that humanity " . |
| 24 | Democracy in pop works about as well as golf in space . |
| 25 | MathSoft reckons the package runs twice as fast as before and enables users to manipulate ‘ virtually unlimited ’ amounts of data . |
| 26 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 27 | ‘ No officers coughin' up as far as I can see , ’ said Tommy . |
| 28 | JR was suspicious by nature , and even more so when figures came together as easily as this . |
| 29 | Greek conscientious objectors are not allowed to perform civilian alternative service but instead may perform unarmed military service lasting twice as long as normal military service . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course , it 's been an awful , terrible accident , but we 've now got to concentrate on making sure that Liz and Owen get well as quickly as possible . |