Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] as [adv] as " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Once these mothers and children started an argument they were likely to last twice as long as in non-clinic families . |
| 7 | The first of these went back as far as the second half of the sixteenth century . |
| 8 | 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 — ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But this time my posts were all standing up as straight as soldiers on parade . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Would they really be able to travel on as far as Fiver 's high place — wherever it might be ? |
| 16 | erm that went about as well as the first maths one . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She was not only confident that a future session would reveal its origins , she was anxious to try again as soon as possible . |
| 19 | It is necessary to find out as precisely as possible how often it was committed , whether or not there were regional variations in its frequency , and if there were changes over time . |
| 20 | It had been clear that Bowman , a research scientist and administrator , was anxious to press ahead as fast as possible , and this had brought him into conflict on several occasions with industry , the government and the NRA chair , Lord Crickhowell . |
| 21 | After 0/30 , it is not wise to go down as far as 6C or 30C . |
| 22 | What are you ready to move out as soon as possible ? |
| 23 | But the estate agent had now found a buyer , one who was eager to move in as soon as possible . |