Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has the impression that the politicians have half-heartedly picked it up so as not to be left behind in the citizenship fashion-parade , or maybe because they have been prodded into rendering some kind of lip-service by their convinced academics . |
| 2 | After all , the stuff has to go somewhere : why not put it as far as possible from people , where it poses no threat to drinking water and little threat ( fisheries apart ) to food ? |
| 3 | Hackett says no other issue has ever touched him as deeply as the forced repatriation of the Vietnamese . |
| 4 | Nobody 's ever hit me as hard as you did . ’ ' |
| 5 | I suppose she just hoped that news of her disappearance had n't made it as far as the Glasgow papers . ’ |
| 6 | He had n't purged himself as completely as he had thought . |
| 7 | The police restricted the parade to the Falls area and the organising committee then called it off so as to avoid compromising the principle of working-class unity . |
| 8 | Dealt with me himself , and never told anybody so far as I know . ’ |
| 9 | Human beings have never touched me so nearly as now when ‘ Nature ’ was so close : I think , too , I never before struck such firm roots into human hearts ’ . |
| 10 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |