Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [coord] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast the larger class-D animals , living on grasslands where rainfall varies , are less selective and so long as they do not crop the grass too close many animals can cover the same foraging area in a short time . |
| 2 | I should wish you were brought home in wine rather than to come in so sober and so late as you do . |
| 3 | If in any given case the land in dispute is unbuilt land and the squatter is aware that the owner , while having no present use for it , has a purpose in mind for its use in the future , the court is likely to require very clear evidence before it can be satisfied that the squatter who claims a possessory title has not only established factual possession of the land , but also the requisite intention to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . |
| 4 | As to this , counsel for the council accepted the correctness of the following statement ( so far as it went ) which I made in Powell v McFarlane ( at 471 – 2 ) : " … the animus possidendi involves the intention , in one 's own name and on one 's own behalf to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title if he be not himself the possessor , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . " … |
| 5 | Our aim is to get as many points as possible and as quickly as possible . |
| 6 | His penis and testicles are as fresh and as hard as a spring bulb . |
| 7 | She 'd turned it as high and as hard as she could get it to go . |
| 8 | Then , of course , there were the Bruces , Lord Bruce who should be preparing himself for death instead of being involved in politics as if he were some young courtier intent on rising as fast and as far as he could . |
| 9 | She wanted to get up and run ; run as fast and as far as she could away from this man who seemed to be intent on humiliating her . |
| 10 | Really slam into the punch bag , hitting it with a constant barrage of punches as fast and as hard as you possibly can for no more than 15–20 seconds . |
| 11 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 12 | She should have followed her instincts and remembered what Debbie had written at the end of those notes , taken them as a warning and run as hard and as far as she could away from this Capricorn man ! |
| 13 | In Barbados ( and other places such as Jamaica and Antigua ) , the wickets are fast and so the bowlers have traditionally bowled fast , while the batsmen have looked to attack at every opportunity , to hit the ball as hard and as gleefully as possible . |
| 14 | Paul Richardson was the first person they 'd met on the island who was prepared to work as long and as hard as they did . |
| 15 | After the verdict was announced Poindexter 's chief lawyer , Richard W. Beckler , stated that his client would appeal against the conviction and would " keep fighting it as long and as hard as we can " . |
| 16 | Mark trains every day as long and as hard as any able-bodied athlete . |
| 17 | One of the sport 's most natural drivers — no one , ever , participated in more forms of motor sport , for as long or even remotely as successfully — he favoured , as a simple man , those things which gave him simple pleasures . |
| 18 | For all the rhetoric of a ‘ classless ’ society , of enabling people ‘ to rise as far and as fast as they can ’ , to quote John Major 's first speech to the new parliament , the reality remains of a nation in which inherited wealth and privilege , and institutionalised power or authority , matter far more than what individuals make of themselves . |
| 19 | Dr Enrico , bustling and bearded , was equally efficient but nowhere near as gentle . |
| 20 | Mr makes there was an under , enumeration of figures and that has been made clear in the reply the reply is quite clear about the basis on which the structure plan is being promulgated and the total projected total population in two thousand and six regards the historical data , that should be taken , as far as I 'm concerned , as matters of fact , will of course not be absolutely accurate and as far as projected data is concerned all that we can do any of us can do is to try and make the best estimates possible and I am satisfied that our officers will have done that . |