Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required . |
| 2 | This was something which the inhabitants were not going to overlook as lightly as Charles had done . |
| 3 | They 're buying a three bedroom place for the next they 're just just going to move there just as they 're going to have twins . |
| 4 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 5 | There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it . |
| 6 | Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees . |