Example sentences of "[adj] as [adv] as they [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The RCM understood this as well as they understood the realities of keeping up the supply of foster parents .
2 I was interested to read your recent articles on commercial diver training , which were very good as far as they went .
3 The kink in the Primarch 's gene-seed might indeed confer will power in regard to enduring pain , even a fascination with torment — how else could any of the cadets have progressed any distance at all , let alone as far as they had proceeded ? — yet plainly there were limits , which this tunnel — so bland in its appearance , so hideous in its effect — seemed designed to test to snapping point .
4 He added : ‘ The facts will be accurate as far as they go .
5 The few models which have been developed to date may have been correct as far as they go but are clearly incomplete .
6 These ideas are plausible as far as they go , but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture , cultural evolution , and the immense differences between human cultures around the world , from the utter selfishness of the Ik of Uganda , as described by Colin Turnbull , to the gentle altruism of Margaret Mead 's Arapesh .
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