Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 2 | For although Cabezón 's compositions first appeared in print in Luys Venegas de Henestrosa 's Libro de cifra ( figure notation ) nueva para tecla ( keyboard ) , harpay vihuela ( Alcala , 1557 ) , and the rest of them only in the Obras de musica published posthumously by his son ( Madrid , 1578 ) , no doubt many had been written as early as the lute pieces in Narvaez 's Delphin de musica ( Valladolid , 1538 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Few principles of statutory interpretation are applied as frequently as the presumption against alterations in the common law . |
| 4 | Some of that deal has been produced as far as the Tornado 's concerned , but again you 're quite right we 're waiting for the announcement of the er orders for the trains . |
| 5 | In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species . |
| 6 | Combined with the federal structure of Germany this means that services are de-centralized as far as the political and administrative levels of national state ( Bundesstaat ) , federal state ( Land ) , district ( Kreis ) and local authority are concerned and additionally dispersed over an almost indescribable multiplicity of semi- and non-statutory organizations . |
| 7 | The majority of house-holds used ceramic sauce-boats , which had been introduced as early as the 1740s . |
| 8 | But his appeal to the IRA leadership to call a halt to its bloody campaign is likely to be dismissed as promptly as the Loyalists yesterday rejected calls to lay down their arms . |
| 9 | The usual way of expressing Boyle 's law , however , is Thus , when a gas is allowed to expand ( or is compressed ) at constant temperature from an initial volume of V1 to a final volume of V2 , the final pressure P2 can be calculated so long as the initial pressure Pl is known . |
| 10 | In its original form , it is a time-consuming and complicated procedure , but it can be simplified so long as the underlying principles are honoured ( see Arnold , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Eventually equipment purchases will have to be made so long as the demand for packaging is there . |
| 12 | as colleagues who are involved will know is just about the only industry in the building materials sector that has n't made some kind of pay offer in this current round it 's very much bringing up the rear and we 're determined to use what industrial strength we have to change the employer 's stance otherwise we 're very concerned that the national negotiation missionary , this will be his death knell since we 'll have to resort to local pay bargaining , so the short answer is E C C er , will be balloted as far as the G M B is concerned union and , er , T & G are balloting in for industrial action to try to change the employers ' position . |
| 13 | None of these has posed any particular threat to the hegemony of traditional discipline and patterns of academic thought and women can be incorporated as easily as the rest . |
| 14 | The loss of a goldfish might be felt as keenly as the loss of a family dog in certain circumstances . |
| 15 | That his departure can be dated as late as the reign of Mehmed I Uzuncarsili 's alternative suggestion is , however , rendered unlikely by the fact that there exists a dated Rajab 808/December 1405-January 1406 which carries the signature of Ibrahim b . |
| 16 | The units are expendable and can easily be replaced so long as the tree is healthy . |
| 17 | References to the delírio , the madness of hunger , can be found as early as the sixteenth century in the writings of Portuguese navigators , and it is a recurring theme in Brazilian literature right up to the present day . |
| 18 | And big brewers Scottish & Newcastle chairman Sir Alick Rankin reckons the north will soon be hit as hard as the south . |
| 19 | A striking one came in 1760 when , at the marriage of the Princess of Brazil , the daughter of King Joseph I , the masterful Portuguese chief minister , the marques de Pombal , announced that though the papal nuncio and the imperial ambassador would take precedence over all other foreign envoys this would be governed so far as the rest of them were concerned simply by the dates on which they had presented their credentials . |
| 20 | Cars may be taken as far as the Hall and , with permission , parked there , a concession especially appreciated when returning . |
| 21 | The CDU would not let economic planning be taken as far as the SPD favoured , farmers protested against cuts in agricultural subsidies and defence cuts could not go far because of fears of weakening NATO . |
| 22 | This last suggestion might be taken more seriously as the working week gets shorter and if the pay penalties for devoting time to caring were reduced . |
| 23 | The sky needs to be worked as carefully as the tiniest twig or grass . |
| 24 | This review is to be repeated as frequently as the county council determines . |
| 25 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 26 | Then there are the containers themselves which have to be chosen as carefully as the plants that will be grown in them . |
| 27 | I have n't been involved as far as the self-appraisal is concerned . |
| 28 | In 1428 , however , it and some neighbouring villages were excused from paying the subsidy because it had less than ten households , and the excavation of one of the houses suggests that it had been deserted as early as the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 29 | The rival method of using metal rollers for milling corn had been tried as early as the sixteenth century but was generally only adopted for malt-milling until , in 1834 , a Swiss engineer substituted rollers for the original stones in the reconstruction of an existing mill . |
| 30 | The most likely outcome is to sell players until the club are doomed as far as the Premier League are concerned — but , for the long-term , he will put in more money to keep the name alive . |