Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing was said , but she had the impression it had been examined almost as closely as Maurice 's . |
| 2 | But the idea of closer political ties with England had first been mooted as far back as the late fifteenth century , by James III ; and even though it was then an extremely unpopular policy , it was an idea which never again quite went away . |
| 3 | Volcanic effects have been even more sudden and disastrous , ranging from the explosion of the island of Krakatoa , between Java and Sumatra , in 1883 to the even more catastrophic eruption of Santorini ( or Thira ) in the Aegean about 1470 B.C. This eruption , or series of eruptions , which resulted in the huge collapsed caldera in the sea beside the present island , must have been the greatest catastrophe ever witnessed by man and may well have been heard as far away as Britain . |
| 4 | However , the effects of urban growth on rural communities had been recognized as long ago as the late 1930s , when Ashby ( 1939 ) argued that the unbalanced age structure and uneconomic service provision caused by rural depopulation had been offset by the spread of urban population into the rural areas in the inter-war years . |
| 5 | Although the need for one organization of policy-making for curriculum and examinations had been recognized as long ago as the mid-1960s ( through the establishment of the Schools Council ) , it had been abandoned in the early 1980s in favour of centralized curriculum-making and a blanket acceptance that the assessment of individual pupils ' achievement would lead to greater improvements in the system than the development of logically connected public examinations and national qualifications . |
| 6 | The foundations of the Whitbread Hop Farm have been traced as far back as 1836 , when it was known as Beltring Farm . |
| 7 | Poisoning incidents have been registered as far back as 1842 . |
| 8 | However , the problem with contact lenses and glasses is that your eyes can change over time , so it is imperative that problems are sorted out as soon as possible , as it will be difficult to establish whether the fault lies in your eyes or in the lenses . |
| 9 | The burning oil wells of Kuwait continue to cause widespread air pollution , notably in the form of " black rain " , which has been reported as far away as Bulgaria , Afghanistan and Pakistan . |
| 10 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 11 | It is clear that the accounts of miracles in the Bible are written just as factually as the accounts of other events . |
| 12 | Yet it is ironical that the most startling changes in industrial chemistry came in dyestuffs , because the fundamental discoveries in this field had been made as far back as 1857 by an Englishman , and England and France dominated aniline dye production until 1870 . |
| 13 | The 30MW sets were extremely conservative ( the first set with the standard conditions had been commissioned as long ago as 1929 ) , but Pask , the chief engineer , resisted pressure to reduce the number of such sets in the early years and concentrate more on the 60MW design . |
| 14 | The parish had been enclosed as far back as 1761 — two generations earlier — but Alken 's view still gives a general impression of wide spaces and open views . |
| 15 | Ocean currents are important for other coastal plants such as some mangroves ( though none of these has reached the isolated archipelago of Hawaii ) , while seeds of the forest lianes , Entada ( Leguminosae ) , are washed even as far as Europe . |
| 16 | An earlier wharf there had been used as long ago as the mid 17C. to off-load haematite brought up from Low Furness mines for the le Fleming family 's iron forge on Church Beck . |
| 17 | However , the manner in which professional and other partnerships are to be taxed , and the equity and practicalities , both from a firm 's and its advisers ' viewpoints , appear not to have been thought through as thoroughly as one might have hoped . |
| 18 | Since then churches have been named after Charles the Martyr and his claims have sometimes been asserted quite as highly as in 1662 . |
| 19 | In solid metals , these spheres are packed together as closely as possible . |
| 20 | The median age of the patients is 54 and men are affected twice as often as women . |
| 21 | The case of Mary Ann Titford , née Parkes , is fairly typical in this respect : her grandchildren , still alive in the 1980s as this story is being written , remember her well , though she had been born as long ago as 1849 . |
| 22 | Lobster-like animals are found as far back as the Triassic , and both crabs and lobsters are frequent and appealing fossils in Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks . |
| 23 | Spiders are known as far back as the Carboniferous , but their remains are principally known fossilized from the Tertiary ambers , where perfectly preserved specimens retain even the hairs on the legs . |
| 24 | Nesting has been proved as far inland as Harting . |
| 25 | Well Ken , obviously everybody was abhorred regarding this national scandal of the the Maxwell er pension fraud that er the Committee who were making enquiries obviously were implementing the fact that we should have a report and Goodey was set up and the recommendations that have been laid down as far as Goodey is concerned in order to strengthen the pension scheme so that these frauds can happen again , now have you read the report ? |
| 26 | In Mycenaean times , Thorikos on the east Attic coast was importing the black volcanic glass called obsidian from the island of Melos , a reminder that there was and is a good little harbour nearby at Laurion ; Attic submycenaean and geometric pottery has been found as far away as western Asia Minor ; and the archaic Athenian colonies at Sigeum and the Chersonese , and the sixth-century cleruchies on Salamis and Euboia , foreshadow the fifth-century empire . |
| 27 | Isolated examples have been found as far afield as ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley , another illustration of the extent to which the most precious substances might be distributed to different polities by way of prestige networks . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , Harp Lager who have been behind the new building all along , are to be congratulated on their commitment to Down Royal and also for making sure that the flagship of racing on the track , the Ulster Harp Derby , has been boosted financially as well as given a new look . |
| 29 | Grandmothers are remembered twice as often as grandfathers — principally because they survived longer ; but it would seem that physical survival coincides here with salience in the memory . |
| 30 | It is essential that these councils are set up as soon as possible so that they may start work on all the detailed arrangements and consultations that will be necessary if a smooth transition to the new funding system is to be ensured . |