Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Security Council vote to enforce its no-fly zone declaration had been expected as early as yesterday but it was postponed because of arduous negotiations over a final text , including the grace period before shoot-down or other orders could be issued . |
| 2 | It had been used more recently as well , during the Darul Islam revolutionary uprisings of the 1960s , when the bodies of execution victims were flung into the cave . |
| 3 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 4 | With the present London Philharmonic exceptionally alert , the skipping rhythms in compound time are sprung as infectiously as ever , nudging now rather than jabbing the listener . |
| 5 | Now artistic intention can be seen more clearly as just one of many often overlapping strands — ideological , economic , social , political — that make up the work of art , whether literary text , painting , or sculpture . |
| 6 | It can be interpreted more narrowly as merely calling for an incidental adjustment in the form of an annotation of the present birth register . |
| 7 | The Council declared that the Church of Christ is to be found here , but it no longer says that it is not to be found anywhere else as well . |
| 8 | The grade considered to be 3+ was stained as densely as simultaneously stained ( control ) submandibular tissue . |
| 9 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 10 | Sarah and Maureen were now close friends and spent a lot of time together , and now that Anne was at home , the friendship between her and Sarah was resumed as strongly as ever . |
| 11 | Presumably this act was meant to signify the unleashing of chaos , except that instead of being summarily tossed to the ground , the bookcase was lowered as gently as delicately as if it were a fragile ceramic from antiquity . |