Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |
| 2 | Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ . |
| 3 | Mandy , her battle-lust having died down as quickly as it had set in , flopped down on Charity 's bed , and patted the spot beside her . |
| 4 | LADY DAVERS : You 'll break her spirit quite , brother , you 'll carry your passion as much too far as I have done . |
| 5 | By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank . |
| 6 | Not so long as we 've got the stuff . |
| 7 | the affair blew over as quickly as it had begun , for Bayley removed his sons from the School at the end of the Summer Term . |
| 8 | Then deaths declined steeply as mysteriously as they had increased . |
| 9 | ‘ Not as well as I 'd hoped . |
| 10 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 11 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 12 | He felt just as strongly as he had the night before . |
| 13 | Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better . |
| 14 | The great agricultural revolution of our own times , in which drainage has played no small part , has accelerated the decline of the small farmer just as surely as it has imperilled the ecological system previously sustained by communal wetland management ; and , at the last , it has begun to destroy the basic resources of the land , as ever deeper drainage has created mineral problems in the soil , wastage of peat , and an increasing dependence upon pumping . |
| 15 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 16 | When Dad joined us Albert greeted him just as pleasantly as he had me , and I thought at least they 're all happy this morning . |
| 17 | And then , just as suddenly as they 'd started , they stopped . |
| 18 | Then , just as suddenly as they had grabbed at his throat , the hands released his windpipe and the weight lifted off him . |
| 19 | Then , just as suddenly as he had appeared , the man turned and ran off . |
| 20 | Then , just as suddenly as he had stopped , the male was off again , perking up his feathers and hopping after his mate with a meaningful glint in his beady eyes . |
| 21 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
| 22 | Then , just as suddenly as it had appeared , it dived , sliding back into the earth at an immense speed . |
| 23 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
| 24 | Then , one morning , just as suddenly as she had taken leave of absence , she was back . |
| 25 | Her hands slid up his chest , her fingers uncurling against the hard wall of muscle , tracing every strong lean line until they brushed against the warm skin of his throat , then slid on to draw his head back down while she kissed him just as tenderly , just as achingly as he had kissed her . |
| 26 | And Oz had worked just as hard as she had , not stopping to gaze down into the dale , but picking and picking until his fingers were stained blue-purple . |
| 27 | The French boat slipped away as silently as it had arrived . |
| 28 | Ven chopped her off stingingly before she could finish — and Fabia knew then that she was n't going to get off as lightly as she 'd hoped . |
| 29 | Then it cut off as suddenly as it had started . |
| 30 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |