Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [adj] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nice people are still there to enjoy the music , although perhaps not as much as if they 'd been allowed to express themselves and some of the nasty people are beginning to appreciate the actual music . |
| 2 | They came down almost as big as when they went up . |
| 3 | These appear to be the valid wordings for trusts which are in most common use : ‘ I request ’ , ‘ I ask ’ , ‘ I wish ’ , and ‘ I entrust ’ , which are individually just as effective as if they were all used together . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's hilly and covered in forest , and the going wo n't be easy , but not nearly as difficult as if we tried to go south over the mountains . |
| 5 | start , what to do or anything so , you need a little bit of practice at doing them for , for revision and then it , it 's not nearly as hard as when you first learnt , it pulls it out of your head again and then sort of puts it back in a bit more settled down and easier to retrieve . |
| 6 | Then if your idea turns out to be not as magnificently ingenious as when , in the dark hours you first thought of it , all is not lost . |
| 7 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |
| 8 | Yet in 1869 , the first full year of Gladstone 's prime ministership , Britain spent £27m. on her army and navy , virtually twice as much as when Palmerston gave his advice to Malmesbury . |
| 9 | Wolverton , which had been the seat of the locomotive building industry for the L & B Railway was no longer so convenient as when the northern terminus was at Birmingham . |