Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They all lifted their arms in unison , and a battery of flashlights went off , making the jewel-like colours of each robe shimmer as vibrantly as the vivid hues of the glass in the shop window . |
| 2 | Indeed , some Keynesians went so far as to say that money is unimport-ant since it only exerts an influence on economic activity via interest rates , and then without much success . |
| 3 | The idea of the event was that 12 teams of people , most of them dressed up as rare animals , had 12 hours to get as far as possible without using any money . |
| 4 | Some biologists go so far as to see DNA as a device used by organisms to reproduce themselves , just as an eye is a device used by organisms to see ! |
| 5 | The system was standardised in the early part of the sixteenth century , and some authorities went so far as to describe the cadency symbols for the ninth son of a ninth son ( an octofoil on an octofoil ) . |
| 6 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 7 | It is accordingly the main aim of this chapter to indicate as far as possible how The Silmarillion in particular should be read . |
| 8 | It is not perhaps generally realised that this practice began as early as the late seventeenth century and that many of the splendid coloured aquatint books of the nineteenth century first reached the public in this way . |
| 9 | I 'm I 'm interested in making this job last as long as possible but I do n't think I want to go to retirement . |
| 10 | The evolution of oxygen in this process occurs as rapidly as it does in photosynthesis . |
| 11 | Following announcement of the settlement , the government admitted that it had blundered in its handling of the affair , and on Oct. 30 Antall went so far as to suggest to parliament that he should resign ( no formal resignation offer was made , however ) . |
| 12 | The audience laughed nervously but Fleischmann remained serious : ‘ If this device worked as effectively as the small scale experiment we have done , it would be generating about 800 watts of power . ’ |
| 13 | Will my right hon. Friend go as far as to say that we definitely intend in the fulness of time to bring in legislation and , I hope , include in the legislation the provision that there should be at least one employee representative among pension fund trustees ? |
| 14 | My hon. Friend knows as well as I do that no Government have brought the police force to such a level as this Conservative Government have done . |
| 15 | May I urge my right hon. Friend to keep as tight as humanly possible control on public expenditure so as to meet the objective of a balanced budget as soon as possible ? |
| 16 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 17 | Henry 's poetic career began as early as 1215 . |
| 18 | And old centres expanded as rapidly as new . |
| 19 | So far we have looked at changing shares within total public spending , but has the absolute level of public spending grown as fast as critics suggest ? |
| 20 | If I should miss any , I shall write to the hon. Members concerned as soon as possible — if possible , before the commencement of the Committee stage so that any information that I can give may be used in Committee . |
| 21 | Quite often curricular problems were related to inadequacies in materials and some advisers went so far as to suggest radical changes in resourcing and accommodation . |
| 22 | The nearby Nagacoils act not only as testaments to the fact that the devotee 's prayers have been answered but as tributes to the Serpent Goddess . |
| 23 | You are recommended to open a British bank account as soon as possible , preferably before your arrival . |
| 24 | You are recommended to open a British bank account as soon as possible , preferably before your arrival . |
| 25 | As his eyes slowly became accustomed to the half-light , he began to make out row upon row of brown tents stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 26 | Complaints about the behaviour of some tourists began as early as the 1850s . |
| 27 | In retrospect , was leaving Lotus alone the wrong thing to do as far as the Elan was concerned ? |
| 28 | There would appear to be the need to develop for these and possibly many other applications , heat sensors sufficiently resistant to fire and high temperatures to act not only as actuating mechanisms for automatic systems but also to provide continuous readings of temperature in their permanent locations . |
| 29 | After reviewing the procedure which had been in force since 1983 , he referred to the decision of the Divisional Court in Ex parte Handscomb and said that he accepted the conclusion of that court : ‘ that there are strong arguments for carrying out this consultation exercise as soon as practicable following the imposition of a discretionary life sentence . ’ |
| 30 | As we watched the train 's shadows turn and fold on the snowy shore , it became clear that she had not forgotten the stories which made this much more than a stark inland sea stretching as far as the eye can follow . |