Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nik Cohn , that indefatigable chronicler of popular culture , set out to walk Broadway in its entirety — but he only got as far as 42nd Street . |
| 2 | It literally happened as quickly as that — on the Monday I decided to finish it and on the Tuesday I packed my bags and left . |
| 3 | Some of the migrants may only go as far as southern Europe . |
| 4 | to secure the relevance , reliability and integrity of information , so ensuring as far as possible the completeness and accuracy of records ; |
| 5 | This is the principle , though it is rarely done as nakedly as this . |
| 6 | This simplicity is , of course , in many respects the precise object of their management , because energy and nutrients are thereby channelled as directly as possible into human consumption with few sidechains and reduction in the losses involved in transferring energy between trophic levels . |
| 7 | Although our sense of smell does not compare as favourably as some of our other senses , it allows us to detect tiny traces of a very wide range of complex chemicals . |
| 8 | Since the opening of the Sterling Commercial Paper ( SCP ) market in 1986 , there have been regular issues but the market has not developed as quickly as national ( as opposed to euro ) commercial paper markets in many other European countries . |
| 9 | Older people do not adapt as easily as young people . |
| 10 | ‘ If a co-ordinated effort is not made as quickly as possible , the death toll could increase dramatically to become a major catastrophe , ’ said Mr Demoze Kebebu , regional representative of Ethiopia 's Bureau of Refugee Affairs . |
| 11 | The rapidly rising birth rate is only part of the explanation , since the birth rate has not risen as fast as urban populations have increased . |
| 12 | Lubricated condoms do not break as easily as non-lubricated ones . |
| 13 | Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects . |
| 14 | If conditions or consents remain , completion will generally occur as soon as practicable after they are satisfied or waived . |
| 15 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 16 | As algae does not multiply as quickly as some marine parasites the turnover in the pond need not be very fast . |
| 17 | These males entered the pool as they reached it and were soon calling as lustily as those first there . |
| 18 | Indeed it seems that girls very quickly replaced boys at this task : " Evidently [ the boys " ] tongues do not go so glibly as the girls , " as the STC was already saying as early as 1875 , " for in most of the offices where girls are employed , reading boys are now unknown . " |
| 19 | According to the Commission , they should be progressively reduced as soon as possible — most likely from the start of 1991 . |
| 20 | When recall is delayed by 30 seconds , they are not remembered very easily as short-term memory has had sufficient chance to decay as short-term memory seems to decay after twenty or so seconds . |
| 21 | I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters . |
| 22 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 23 | They do not go as far as some countries , who plan to make actual cuts in emissions rates . |
| 24 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 25 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |
| 26 | At present the authorities have not gone so far as this . |
| 27 | But matters had not gone as smoothly as all that . |
| 28 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
| 29 | MODERN methods of assessing the value of scientific research might just as well not exist as far as British policy makers are concerned . |
| 30 | Tall men can not drive as easily as smaller men . |