Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required . |
| 2 | We 'd only have to walk as far as Bingley . |
| 3 | Wildebeest movements follow , at a distance of a few days , the pattern of rainfall ; but they only keep moving so long as rain is falling or has recently fallen within the area scanned by their senses . |
| 4 | A unit only continues to operate so long as it is successful . |
| 5 | My heart would suddenly start beating very fast as though my life was beating out of me . |
| 6 | They 're buying a three bedroom place for the next they 're just just going to move there just as they 're going to have twins . |
| 7 | And Novotna admitted : ‘ I just kept playing as hard as I could . |
| 8 | An interesting sidelight on battlefront conditions came from his remarks that the Peshmerga brought in for attention mainly tended to be suffering from wounds to their limbs from weapons such as Kalashnikovs , since those who sustained head or body injuries generally failed to get as far as a field hospital . |
| 9 | There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it . |
| 10 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 11 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 12 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |
| 13 | Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees . |
| 14 | I 've always tried to play as intensely as I can . |
| 15 | We know from an article he wrote entitled The New Course of Our Economic Policy' that he enthusiastically endorsed NEP as early as August 1921 . |
| 16 | I actually wanted to that I did n't really want to go as far as for example deciding that the chair what they are voting would be within the resources available to the . |
| 17 | Australia and New Zealand even wanted to go as far as the international operation of aircraft on trunk routes . |
| 18 | Sylvia Pedder sometimes has to go as far as Cumbria to see her relatives . |
| 19 | I am not sure she could actually have gone so far as to say things like : ‘ these errors may be trivial in themselves , but you must yourself realize their larger significance ’ . |
| 20 | The Neue Mozart Ausgabe ( hereafter NMA ) ( Kassel , 1955- ) came out on the side of ‘ dualism ’ and has systematically tried to reproduce as faithfully as possible the two distinct signs while various of its editors explained the rationale for this editorial policy . |
| 21 | Mike was waiting for her in the lobby when she came down , and she was pleased to see that he too had dressed as informally as possible in deference to the humidity . |
| 22 | To start with , some of the power stations have significantly failed to operate as efficiently as expected . |