Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would be quite happy to forget all those things so long as Fedorov obliged them by carrying out certain routine tasks from time to time . |
| 2 | In so far as decorum allows I have tried to do so myself , and at some cost to my reputation for a sympathetic bedside manner . |
| 3 | In so far as institutions find it more profitable to invest abroad , UK companies may find it more difficult to float new share issues . |
| 4 | True , what he had felt for Kee was at the time a stronger passion , and so far as charm went they could n't be compared . |
| 5 | In so far as Freud thought he had done psychology as a natural science , he has been vulnerable to critics within psychology who have applied natural scientific criteria to his work and found it wanting . |
| 6 | In so far as Jupiter survived he was the personification of Providence or Destiny . |
| 7 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 8 | Quite independent of Pound , most admiring commentators have read the poem more nearly as Pound read it than as Eliot intended . |
| 9 | For as long as Caroline told you that you could , I suppose . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 12 | The obsession , for instance , with snapping endless portraits of complete strangers to take back home as mementoes struck them as particularly humorous . |
| 13 | ( Okland played as a pro in the Bundesliga and in France and as far as i remember he played in the team that beat England 2–1 at home in the 1981 chock-winner for Norway ) . |
| 14 | Folk said only trust foreigners as far as th'could see 'em — no further . |
| 15 | Gary Chapman says that at some tracks they can hit 120 miles an hour … as far as cost goes you can spend fifty thousand … or just five hundred … |
| 16 | ‘ Though you 're courageous enough , as far as aggression goes you 're not in the same league as Didi . ’ |
| 17 | The game was decided on 64 minutes … as far as penalties go you win some you lose some … |
| 18 | The game was decided on 64 minutes … as far as penalties go you win some you lose some … |
| 19 | A long right arm as hard as steel took him about the body , prisoning his left arm above the elbow , and the grazed breast leaned violently over him and broke his balance . |
| 20 | He went into motor racing for the fun of it and it seems unlikely that he ever took it as seriously as others thought it should be taken . |
| 21 | But what a delight it was to come across your adventure , particularly so as Sept saw me doing 6 days canoeing the Zam with Shearwater , rafting Vic Falls 4–19 and a flip at 18 , and I spent 2 days at Kariba lake on a houseboat . |
| 22 | Today , of course , the suburb is n't quite as Richards found it . |
| 23 | No offside given there surprisingly as Black turns it in and Whitlow 's there to win it again . |
| 24 | The loch , like many others in the Highlands , is no longer as Nature fashioned it , the length having been increased from four to nine miles as the result of reservoir operations . |