Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It leaves me high and dry as far as the debt 's concerned . |
| 2 | For a while , Jem manages to restrict Scout who does n't realise how serious everything is and wants to run to Atticus , but eventually she breaks free and runs as fast as she can to him . |
| 3 | The 10-month-old Italians were said to be ‘ stable and doing as well as can be expected ’ at London 's Great Ormond Street children 's hospital . |
| 4 | Facts were to do with the material conditions of life described as precisely as possible and counted as accurately as possible . |
| 5 | The lenses will be as small and thin as possible and fit as loosely as appropriate in order to maintain the health of the eyes . |
| 6 | The stress concentration at a crack tip was first calculated by Inglis in 1913 , as we have said , and his results are classic and correct as far as they go . |
| 7 | For various reasons the main one of which was a lack of understanding of our problems , our local administration were often unsympathetic and went so far as to accuse us of non co-operation at times , especially in the matter of rest days . |
| 8 | Both the girls were small and looked exceptionally so as they crossed the Bridge with their handcart . |
| 9 | They , you , are our inspiration , the reason we 've come as far and done as well as we have , the energy that drives us forward into the future . |
| 10 | Women wedded to men 's systems , arguing for resources and significance , have little alternative but to accept the context as given and learn as effectively as possible , to pitch in with the rest . |
| 11 | The ingratitude comes out into the open and sets as hard as marble . |
| 12 | The streets curved and twisted as pleasantly as the river , but were shaded by fine lime trees , now breaking into delicate leaf , instead of the willows , soon to shimmer summer through , above the trout-ringed reaches of the River Pleshey . |
| 13 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 14 | Y'know , we 've been dead and buried as far as a lot of people are concerned , but this album will put us back up there . |
| 15 | The oppressive regime I had anticipated was not apparent and the whole complex seemed clean , active and designed as far as possible to provide reasonable conditions and amenities for its inmates . |