Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let hair dry naturally as often as you can . |
| 2 | The car slowed again more gently as the Annamese driver spotted another group of peasants gathering themselves at the roadside fifty yards ahead . |
| 3 | The French boat slipped away as silently as it had arrived . |
| 4 | She sat in a corner on an antique settle as far away as possible from the blazing open fire . |
| 5 | But the relief of the husband from the obligation of maintenance continues only so long as she voluntarily remains absent . |
| 6 | Too many pilots allow their glider to zoom up too steeply as they leave the ground . |
| 7 | The suspension of the armed struggle just over a month ago was seen as a break-through , but within days , peace seemed as far away as ever . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been asked by the Cancer Research Campaign to press on as fast as possible . ’ |
| 9 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 10 | The origins of this philosophy go back as far as 1970 when Shell and the Nature Conservancy first devised a competition aimed at encouraging young people to come up with ideas to conserve their local environment . |
| 11 | The Sound of Music : Newcastle Theatre Royal ANY production of this popular classic has its work cut out as far as most critics are concerned . |
| 12 | She had a burning need to get this ridiculous misunderstanding sorted out as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | In Scotia and in Orkney , the work went on as fast as resources would allow , and more speedily than it might once have done because of the cleared roads and the stations of help that now existed through the newborn network of local churches and local leadership . |
| 14 | The battle continued up as far as Wight and across to France and Gravelines until , as the world knows , ‘ God blew with his wind and they were scattered ’ . |
| 15 | Local government capital expenditure is ‘ cash limited ’ , but current expenditure is cash limited only as far as the overall total of the Rate Support Grant ( RSG ) 3 is concerned . |
| 16 | So always after that I would make sure I had a job to do as far away as possible from the scene , because it upset me a lot . |
| 17 | The journey into town took twice as long as it should . |
| 18 | This impression is confirmed by a conversation Eliot had with George Seferis , the Greek poet , in which he explained how uncomfortable he felt when he was forced to take shelter in an underground station during the blitz : " I would feel the need to get out as quickly as possible , to escape all those faces gathered there , to escape all that humanity " . |
| 19 | Democracy in pop works about as well as golf in space . |
| 20 | MathSoft reckons the package runs twice as fast as before and enables users to manipulate ‘ virtually unlimited ’ amounts of data . |
| 21 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 22 | Adam 's warning yell came almost too late as she in turn was grabbed . |
| 23 | Greek conscientious objectors are not allowed to perform civilian alternative service but instead may perform unarmed military service lasting twice as long as normal military service . |
| 24 | It would be worth you paying to have the tree cut back as far as S * but no further . |
| 25 | According to Divisional Court , however , the literal approach overlooks the discretion which the justices have to do ‘ what they consider to be just in the circumstances : a discretion which the court traces back as far as Kinnis v. |
| 26 | Now , seeing as my own computer literacy extends only as far as Super Mario Bros , I 'm left feeling a little bewildered by it all . |
| 27 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
| 28 | There should be no more nonsense about one or other of them moving out for a matter of days or weeks only for the unsatisfactory relationship to resume just as unsatisfactorily as before . |
| 29 | The latter , built on the site of a station closed as long ago as 1865 , was wholly funded by the GLC and the Department of Environment 's urban programme grant . |
| 30 | It is the view of many of the vets in the district , the R S P C A Inspectorate and other dog handling professionals , that dogs must have adequate natural exercise and they should be given the opportunity to run freely as frequently as possible . |