Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] as [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only as far as proof goes . |
| 2 | The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys , and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library : they cooked their tea , ran errands for them , being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller 's teashop , and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted " Boy ! " , the last arrival being given the job . |
| 3 | It gives a new and cruel twist to community care that people may have to be shipped perhaps as far as Birkenhead to find a community home . |
| 4 | I do guarantee it — just so long as Silvia passes her exams . ’ |
| 5 | Hungarians are no longer afraid , at least not so long as reformers run Russia , that Soviet tanks will snuff out their democratic experiment , as they did in 1956 . |
| 6 | With regretful eyes on the sunshine outside , they had reluctantly yielded , though not as reluctantly as Auguste had yielded to Angelina 's entreaties to be allowed to interrupt the lesson . |
| 7 | They grow and feed just as well as carp fed on a much higher protein diet , only it does not cost as much . |
| 8 | Serafin , too , is thinking about Annexe B. He knows , just as well as Summerchild does , that these are big men who once rowed for their colleges . |
| 9 | Indeed he almost felt for music , wild dancing now : Winnie returned , with two wines , which was just as well as Rab had all but drained her glass . |
| 10 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ Teams fighting against relegation sometimes scrap just as hard as teams challenging for promotion . |
| 11 | Gas imports will reach some 70 MTOE by 1990 but grow more slowly subsequently as gas supplies from Alaska increase . |
| 12 | Much of the West End was still sealed off early today as police combed the area for more bombs . |
| 13 | He switched off almost sadly as Hess disappeared into the cockpit clumsily , too big in the leg for such acrobatics . |
| 14 | But self-improvement is n't nearly as hard as people make out . |
| 15 | He looked up again just as Harriet spoke . |
| 16 | An instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing , executed by or on behalf of the appointer and shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : — |
| 17 | Where it is desired to afford members an opportunity of instructing the proxy how he shall act the instrument appointing a proxy shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : — |
| 18 | An instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing , executed by or on behalf of the appointer and shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : — |
| 19 | Where it is desired to afford members an opportunity of instructing the proxy how he shall act the instrument appointing a proxy shall be in the following form ( or in a form as near thereto as circumstances allow or in any other form which is usual or which the Directors may approve ) : — |
| 20 | He walked out as far as Scheveningen to draw the fisherwomen there . |
| 21 | It took nearly a year of searching as far afield as Slough to find suitable premises for the nursery . |
| 22 | People and dogs came from as far away as Oxford to take part in this event which must have left them all fitter and leaner at the end of the day . |
| 23 | Armies from Sweden and Spain , France , the Netherlands and from as far away as Transylvania contended for superiority . |
| 24 | Equally remarkably , he made them open their pockets , so that they gave with extraordianry generosity when other communities as far away as Italy suffered disasters like their own . |
| 25 | Thousands of tourists from as far away as Essex have flooded to the area to strip the wreck of the 10,000-ton ship Demetrius . |
| 26 | PORTADOWN families holidaying as far away as Crete have written home condemning the IRA for destroying their town , it was revealed today . |
| 27 | At this hypermarket more than half the booze sales are to English shoppers , they come from as far away as Yorkshire to stock up for the Christmas part season . |
| 28 | The Manchester Guardian critic noticed that Minton 's figures were becoming less formalised and that he had ‘ fastened on the banana tree almost as tightly as Sutherland had clasped the more uncomfortable thorn-tree to his bosom ’ . |
| 29 | The question facing women 's studies today is the extent to which she has , in the last decade , matured into the dutiful daughter of the white patriarchal university — a daughter who threw tantrums and played the tomboy when she was younger , but who has now learned to wear a dress and speak and act almost as nicely as Daddy wants her to . |
| 30 | She would not visit her own family , except as a formality , and then as briefly as decency permitted . |