Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] as [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They live together and as far as he is concerned , he will treat her daughter as his own . |
| 2 | Power levels control the amount of microwave energy entering the oven , so food can be cooked as quickly or as slowly as you like . |
| 3 | According to centre director Anne Shearer , a qualified psychotherapist and former social work committee chairperson , fear and anxiety , often rooted in childhood , leave us unable to breathe as deeply or as evenly as we once did , and this in turn means we can not relax fully or enjoy really good health . |
| 4 | We have to work as quickly and as safely as we possibly can and we ca n't afford to spend five minutes er searching a house , let alone a flat . |
| 5 | I got up and dressed quickly and as quietly as I could , but Colin was awake and he mumbled a ‘ good luck ’ as I headed for the door . |
| 6 | At the same time , there was a rapidly expanding population , so house-builders constructed many small houses as cheaply and as quickly as they could ( without proper foundations ) . |
| 7 | Next day , he was home and as far as he was concerned it had never happened . |
| 8 | Adele had looked up at him , not quickly but as quickly as she 'd been able . |
| 9 | But it has never since been debated as solemnly , as urgently or as hysterically as it was in the 1950s . |
| 10 | The heart of the matter is the provision of a physical and social environment through which the members of society may gradually withdraw from it as securely and as worthily as they enter it through the environment of home and education . |
| 11 | Madonna is saying , ‘ Do n't you wish you had as much sex as often and as uninhibitedly as me ? ’ to the poor old lights-out , pyjamas-on proletariat . |
| 12 | Employers complained of such traits as often and as vehemently as they complained of " riotous and unlawful combination " . |
| 13 | I trained as often and as hard as I could , as hard as anybody on the staff — and that includes my old pal Bryan Robson , who was notorious for his unflagging effort — but the pain was excruciating . |
| 14 | Yates , 25 later this month , has been tracked by a number of top clubs , including both Liverpool and Spurs , but manager Neil Warnock yesterday admitted : ‘ His injury is not responding as well or as quickly as we had thought . |
| 15 | My right hon. Friend can not write off the WEU as simply and as simplistically as he did . |
| 16 | I had a record company screaming for final mixes , not even sure that they wanted this album because ‘ Space Oddity ’ did n't do too well and as far as they were concerned this was going to be the last they had to do with David Bowie , and I was n't delivering the goods . |
| 17 | Similar challenges have been organised previously in London , Canterbury etc but as far as I know this one is a ‘ first ’ for Edinburgh . |
| 18 | As part of the whole , they are expected to enable all who are present to make their offering to God as fully and as well as they can , in addition to making their own contribution for him . |
| 19 | When Astrid asked her daughter a question , Miranda would rush to reply , as fully and as dazzlingly as she could : her mother liked to be amused and was easily distracted by something else . |
| 20 | He explained : ‘ We are dealing direct with merchants over there and as far as we are aware they are very keen to import fish , such as small whiting , which they ca n't get from their own fishermen . |
| 21 | The classical continuity which remains for the plucked string is that each of its harmonics can be sounded as softly or as loudly as we please . |
| 22 | It is usually they who made the choice to have and keep their babies , even though this does not always work out as happily or as easily as they may anticipate , and they deserve recognition and respect . |