Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party could only go as far as the unions would allow and their influence was apparent at all levels . |
| 2 | And you could only go as far as the money would go , could n't you ? |
| 3 | Could only get as far as the kitchen . |
| 4 | The letter O , for instance , does not occur very often as the final letter in a four letter word , but is common as the second letter . |
| 5 | It becomes a bonfire in autumn , but strangely does not burn so brightly as the green-leafed type distinguished as viridis . |
| 6 | Such individuals will then continue to breed , and the numbers will not sink as rapidly as the population controllers would like . |
| 7 | ( The mundane truth was that the delivery boy had forgotten it , but the correction did not circulate as efficiently as the rumour . ) |
| 8 | The light of the lamp did not reach as far as the high ceiling , and the fire had burned low . |
| 9 | We shall instead suggest ( 40 ) , where the fact that the arrowhead passes through the square bracket is intended to show that the minor property does not simply qualify the entity as a whole , but the fact that it does not reach as far as the round bracket shows that the adjective is not a sense-qualifier : ( 40 ) |
| 10 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 11 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |
| 12 | Indeed it seems that girls very quickly replaced boys at this task : " Evidently [ the boys " ] tongues do not go so glibly as the girls , " as the STC was already saying as early as 1875 , " for in most of the offices where girls are employed , reading boys are now unknown . " |
| 13 | The third method Engels accepted from Morgan concerned the idea that , although systems of kinship terms were first moulded by systems of marriage , the kin terms did not change as easily as the system of marriage . |
| 14 | Look , if you do n't mind a bit of running you could just come as far as the Tube with me and we could continue this conversation on the way . |
| 15 | He did not get as far as the main Cossack encampments at Peggetz and Oberdrauberg near Lienz , a considerable distance further west . |
| 16 | People who do not care so long as the passing hour is comfortable and cheerful are not likely to exhibit much of a front when they call themselves a union . |
| 17 | That this Second World War would not last so long as the First , and even that it might not be a war on such a world-scale , were legitimate presumptions at the time , and Eliot was firmly of the opinion that we should be thinking then and there of the world which would finally emerge . |
| 18 | A recent claim by an accident and emergency consultant in Sheffield that children , and even adults , could regrow their finger tips , providing that the injury did not extend as far as the terminal or end joint , was greeted with considerable scepticism by the medical profession . |
| 19 | Anne was a gentle girl ; she did not fight as hard as the others . |
| 20 | This was in itself , however , of little significance in an atmosphere impregnated with tension , and anxiety that the western offensive could not conceivably go as smoothly as the Polish and Scandinavian campaigns . |
| 21 | Whether we in this country could ever get as far as the Americans have done , remains to be seen . |
| 22 | Where a listed company promotes an on-market " buy-in " of its shares , where the shareholders usually sell to an intermediary and the intermediary sells back to the company , the capital gains tax rules , rather than the ACT/distribution regime , will also apply as far as the vendor shareholders are concerned . |
| 23 | It would n't exist as far as the programmer was concerned . |
| 24 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 25 | I could n't even walk as fast as the kids , and standing for more than five minutes was impossible . |
| 26 | That 's right , but it does n't go as far as the Glen , |
| 27 | They did n't even get as far as the bedroom , one of the soft rugs strewn over the carpeting in her lounge serving as their bed of reunion , Maria still partly and Luke almost fully clothed as they subsided on to its subtly glowing colours . |
| 28 | They did n't get as far as the Tibetan border , where the exchange rate would have been better . |
| 29 | The form is all you have in the initial stages , and if you do n't erm fill it out sensibly then you do n't get as far as the interview , when of course your individual personality can start to come through . |
| 30 | Some swim into the Baltic , others pass through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean and may even travel as far as the Black Sea . |