Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required . |
| 2 | We 'd only have to walk as far as Bingley . |
| 3 | Wildebeest movements follow , at a distance of a few days , the pattern of rainfall ; but they only keep moving so long as rain is falling or has recently fallen within the area scanned by their senses . |
| 4 | A unit only continues to operate so long as it is successful . |
| 5 | My heart would suddenly start beating very fast as though my life was beating out of me . |
| 6 | This means the aquarium will not need cleaning as often as a less densely planted one . |
| 7 | Fourth , spending on front-office systems , such as those supporting foreign exchange , funds and transfer payments , is not expected to grow as fast as that on back-office systems , covering such applications as transaction processing , clearing and settlement . |
| 8 | However , there are fears that the chancellor will not dare go as far as his critics wish and instead stick to a one per cent cut . |
| 9 | This was something which the inhabitants were not going to overlook as lightly as Charles had done . |
| 10 | They 're buying a three bedroom place for the next they 're just just going to move there just as they 're going to have twins . |
| 11 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 12 | But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have . |
| 13 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 14 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 15 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 16 | Attitudes may not have changed as quickly as some of the tools with which we do the job but there are plenty of examples of progress which deserve credit . |
| 17 | If the buyer believes such an obligation does not exist , then clearly the bill can be ignored and the matter does not proceed further as far as is concerned here . |
| 18 | And Novotna admitted : ‘ I just kept playing as hard as I could . |
| 19 | We can not help signing so long as there is another human being who needs to read the signs . |
| 20 | An interesting sidelight on battlefront conditions came from his remarks that the Peshmerga brought in for attention mainly tended to be suffering from wounds to their limbs from weapons such as Kalashnikovs , since those who sustained head or body injuries generally failed to get as far as a field hospital . |
| 21 | There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it . |
| 22 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 23 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 24 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |
| 25 | Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees . |
| 26 | I 've always tried to play as intensely as I can . |
| 27 | We know from an article he wrote entitled The New Course of Our Economic Policy' that he enthusiastically endorsed NEP as early as August 1921 . |
| 28 | I actually wanted to that I did n't really want to go as far as for example deciding that the chair what they are voting would be within the resources available to the . |
| 29 | I 'm Quechua , but I do n't want to work as hard as they must do . |
| 30 | Erm it would be wrong to say Wales is a weak region on the basis of this , it 's just not , does n't appear , or does n't expect to grow as strongly as it was growing . |