Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It does not necessarily work as quickly as it did in Sylvia 's case — but it always succeeds , provided the patient does his or her homework regularly and conscientiously . |
2 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
3 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |
4 | Otherwise , what we 've built here could disappear as quickly as it came . ’ |
5 | Whether it should happen as often as it does is open to doubt . |
6 | Will the outswinger still swing as late as it did last summer ? ’ |
7 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
8 | Yet the question has to be asked : how much is this really an artificial crisis which will subside as quickly as it has arisen ? |