Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] as [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Palestinians refuse to draw the line between the interim agreement on self-government and the final determination of borders as sharply as Israel does . |
| 2 | So the regulatory tactic should be to ban the risks consensus defines as unacceptable and to impose ( if necessary ) a duty to limit other risks as far as money allows . |
| 3 | Every culture in Britain at the moment has a similar philosophy as far as size goes : if you want to look good , be desirable , you 've got to be thin . |
| 4 | What is the status of these areas as far as planning goes ? |
| 5 | In addition , it is not clear that pesticides will travel through the unsaturated zone as readily as nitrate does — they may , for example , be adsorbed by clays . |
| 6 | The other side of the coin is that firms may now be hiring workers more quickly as demand picks up . |
| 7 | I must have heard the Brahms C major Sonata countless times , yet I can not recall having ever encountered a reading which balances the young composer 's variegated , emotionally charged adolescent outpourings as unerringly as Richter does here . |
| 8 | ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes ’ Cregagh Bonsai owner Stephen Whiteside surrounds himself with the love of his life . |
| 10 | Well get Fantavision , this shareware product is the business as far as animation goes . |
| 11 | A fourth Tory term would mean a fourth Tory recession as surely as night follows day . |
| 12 | That is , the whore was pretty in a superficial way , and probably skilled in presenting her wares as temptingly as instinct allows . |
| 13 | In a population confined to a particular habitat competition for limited resources is an inevitable feature of life so long as reproduction occurs . |
| 14 | Competition for limited resources is an inevitable feature of life so long as reproduction occurs in the context of finite supplies . |
| 15 | In fact , the Princess of Wales — a woman Selina is often compared with — must wish she was able to keep the lid on her private life as tightly as Selina has . |
| 16 | From time to time there have arisen political factions whose leaders have sought to base their power on the doctrine that there can be no peace and prosperity on earth so long as mankind harbours religious thoughts and worships ‘ gods ’ . |
| 17 | It might seem that the primeval Fall underlies this poem 's events as surely as Venice underlies its epigraph , standing as the reality which underlies various writers ' interpretations . |