Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | As this list also reminds us , journalists seem to worry as much as sociologists about their proper analytical role . |
2 | Already a £4.1 billion industry , quick-service restaurants continue to expand as quickly as ever , despite the economic trend . |
3 | But you want to be sure that your parents get to hear as soon as possible that you are safe , do n't you ? … |
4 | Ian and Vicki decide to explore as far as the next hill , leaving Barbara and the Doctor behind to sunbathe . |
5 | Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light . |
6 | One implication of phenomenal rates of economic growth can be seen in rising incomes leading to an enormous increase in the ownership of consumer durables , although it is debatable whether incomes have risen as fast as GNP . |
7 | With the October 1987 stockmarket crash and , now , a British recession , these revenues have vanished as capriciously as they arrived . |
8 | That 's why i want to leave as soon as possible . |
9 | Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are . |
10 | This is because demands fur virtuosity have grown as well as for greater physical flexibility . |
11 | The Motorola plant , Scotland 's most significant inward investment of recent years , is expected to reach its target employment level of 1,500-2,000 jobs next year , two years ahead of schedule , but senior managers have indicated that the eventual total could be nearer 4,000 if markets continue to perform as robustly as currently projected . |
12 | At the moment , as far as I know , there is on the market no computer that really can have a large memory and is also within the price range for the ordinary primary school or home , but if these new falling prices of memory do come as quickly as some people are predicting , then that could make a huge difference . |
13 | You also ca n't help noticing that attempts to drag the Royal Family into the 20th Century have failed as badly as attempts to do the same for this other great British anachronism . |
14 | Over the millennia , cultures have changed very substantially as they have learned to cope with environmental vicissitudes . |
15 | The coils themselves should consist of 500 turns of 0.2mm enamelled wire scramble wound as neatly as possible over the core , the second winding crossing over the top of the first at right angles . |
16 | No doubt , when events start to run as smoothly as I forecast , you will assume it must be coincidence . |
17 | It was unlikely that any English advance-parties would in fact have got thus far as yet , but they went prepared . |