Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a good deal of evidence elsewhere in the Digest to show that in civil-law dispositions too intention was regarded as the key to application of a condition or a term ; and this goes back as early as Pegasus . |
| 2 | There is a scattering in Berkshire , especially in Wantage hundred ; most resided within the county , in the towns of Abingdon and Newbury in particular , though a few lived as far away as , for instance , Salisbury . |
| 3 | Objectively , Karen was prepared to go almost as far as her predecessor , and her eager greed more than made up for the thrill I used to get from subjecting dogged , cow-like Manuela to the same routines . |
| 4 | ‘ If all this happened as long ago as the Doctor suggests — ’ Benny thought aloud . |
| 5 | Erm I do n't know the figures , but the feeling certainly was that everybody wanted to get out , and thy wanted to get out as quickly as they could . |
| 6 | At the end of the day , however , recognition as an actor was also inexorably linked to becoming rich and famous — Warren Beatty 's words — and even a modest hope of that seemed as far away as ever . |
| 7 | Women currently outlive men by about six years , so that as they retire five years earlier they can expect on average to spend twice as long as men in retirement . |
| 8 | He decided that he was never likely to do even as well as they and that he had better look for another career , which eventually he found successfully in the world of travel . |
| 9 | Once these mothers and children started an argument they were likely to last twice as long as in non-clinic families . |
| 10 | The first of these went back as far as the second half of the sixteenth century . |
| 11 | I told her she 's welcome to stay up there just as long as she wants and what she said would n't bear repeating . |
| 12 | He simply said something about it 's being his land and Piers told him we had made a mistake and we all rode off as hard as we could because we were bursting with laughter — ’ |
| 13 | All went well as far as Jersey , where the Met man proclaimed that thunderstorms to the south would shortly ground all light aircraft , pointing to the yellow and red swathe on his TV monitor . |
| 14 | The main flambeaux along the deck all died out suddenly so as not to backlight the fighting machines . |
| 15 | But this time my posts were all standing up as straight as soldiers on parade . |
| 16 | It is through being able to see simultaneously both backwards as well as forwards , without the need to glance over his shoulder . |
| 17 | The final question which arises is whether , in the exercise of our discretion , we should let mandamus go bearing in mind that the events with which we are concerned occurred as long ago as 1989 and then occupied no more than perhaps three quarters of an hour . |
| 18 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 19 | The increase in the use of HP , though less marked , is important as HP is used for expensive purchases which are unlikely to crop up as often as the smaller ones financed by other types of credit . |
| 20 | If we are not able to function mentally as well as we normally do , are our minds full of anxious thoughts , emotional fears or business worries ? |
| 21 | An alternative was to insert cowrie shells in the eye sockets of wooden images like those found as far apart as Togoland , the Philippines and New Zealand . |
| 22 | The man on the rod would be unable to reel in fast enough as they ran down on the Zodiac . |
| 23 | The other unusual and perhaps best known characteristic of Trolls is that their flesh is able to regrow almost as quickly as it is damaged . |
| 24 | Would they really be able to travel on as far as Fiver 's high place — wherever it might be ? |
| 25 | Users will be able to travel as far afield as Andorra , France and Portugal with the same pager . |
| 26 | erm that went about as well as the first maths one . |
| 27 | There is one poem in which the I dominates to a remarkable extent and which , since it has been read literally , might seem an exception to my argument , namely 62 : If one reads only as far as this point , or reads the rest of the poem inattentively , one might indeed take this as an attack by the poet on his own narcissism . |
| 28 | This account was first identified as long ago as 1981 when a ledger was found during a raid on the house of masonic boss Licio Gelli . |
| 29 | After all , it 's as vital to work as well then as at any other time . |
| 30 | She was not only confident that a future session would reveal its origins , she was anxious to try again as soon as possible . |