Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] as [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love dressmaking but ca n't do so much now as my hands are stiff with arthritis . |
| 2 | Nothing in soft conventionalism guarantees , or even promotes , the ideal of protected expectations , that past decisions will be relied on to justify collective force only so far as their authority and their terms are made uncontroversial by widely accepted conventions . |
| 3 | A declaration of dominance , of the attitude that had accepted Darwin only so long as his ideas could be misrepresented in shuffling the animal kingdom into a league table with man several steps above its head , almost within touching distance of God . |
| 4 | The sheet was pulled up only as far as his hip , so that backs of her fingers touched his bare back , warm and still slightly damp . |
| 5 | As he told the story , probably with some exaggeration , Evelyn is supposed quite often to have gone out , perhaps only as far as his aunt 's house nearby to borrow some sugar , and to have failed to return . |
| 6 | The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners . |
| 7 | On the contrary , I was mocked within the family for my ‘ posh ’ accent , and for what was considered to be my general childishness , especially as far as my sense of humour was concerned . |
| 8 | The essence of what Mr Hussain said was that following the marriage he would remain in England on a settled basis as a married man for just so long as his wife dictated . |
| 9 | Liverpool beckoned , just so long as his legs remained sound . |
| 10 | Hateley 's reputation stalks just as largely as his physique . |
| 11 | Managers became alarmed as , against all expectations , the operators managed to control the machinery just as well as their supervisors and demanded higher wages . |
| 12 | That was just as well as our engineers were not professionals by any means , although they always coped very well and our engines gave very little trouble . |
| 13 | She grew tired of her less-than-suitable young man just as quickly as her parents had predicted and then in no time at all fell in love with and married the elder son of a duke . ’ |
| 14 | Your salary will grow just as quickly as your skills and responsibilities — and that could be very fast indeed . |
| 15 | He waited for the girl 's regular visits to the sick cow just as impatiently as his dog waited to be fed . |
| 16 | This distaste for the subject of money should also guide his behaviour if another gentleman was impudent enough to enquire about his income : ‘ [ In such a situation the mirza ] should try to get the topic changed ; if not he should leave the house to its owner and run away as fast as his feet can carry him . |
| 17 | ( There are spiders too : an engineer , inspecting the Lake as it was filling , reported seeing a half-drowned tree covered with what appeared to be black foliage : he paddled alongside , then shot away as fast as his blades could carry him . |
| 18 | They acknowledge the low pay of the farm worker but , the argument runs , they can not be paid more so long as their returns to capital invested continue to fall behind the returns available to industrial employers . |
| 19 | On occasions the fruits of such temporalities were earmarked for particular royal projects or expenditure , such as the building of the Welsh castles , and the temptation was for the king to define ‘ temporalities ’ ever more widely as his burdens increased . |
| 20 | So , when Rune 's English gave way to Danish once more , she made her own translation of the words , inventing the compliments and vows she wanted to hear , feeling her pulse respond more rapidly still as his voice deepened and shook with fervour . |
| 21 | Hunter dislocated his shoulder after only 39 minutes of the Lions opening tour match against North Auckland , and returns home tomorrow just as his replacement flies out . |
| 22 | MacCabe and company had assumed that their location work would prove more than adequate to meet the quota , but then found that they were obliged to do all their processing and post-production work in Hamburg , too -a doubly inconvenient requirement since the local labs are not used to working nearly so quickly as their counterparts in London . |
| 23 | We hunt in the mountains of West Virginia every fall and he shoots now nearly as well as his daddy . " |
| 24 | Tree shrews are usually 6–10 in ( 15–25 cm ) in length with a tail as long again as their body . |
| 25 | My very ordinary London flat costs about half as much again as my flat in Glasgow , which is an infinitely superior building in which to live in every respect . |
| 26 | The initial elation the rest of us were experiencing was as far away as her childhood . |
| 27 | They had tunnelled down into the plateau , and they had built upwards as far as their materials and construction abilities would allow . |
| 28 | If these rates were maintained then , with population growing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , each generation could expect to be roughly twice as well off as its parents and four times as well off as its grandparents . |
| 29 | Well my husband 'll have to leave so I 'll claim income support and be as well off as his ex-wife . |
| 30 | Not only have food costs been above average , but the labour turnover has been relatively high , which is a little odd since Fred is generally considered to be genial and well liked ( though we must add that we have found no evidence that this is true as far as his staff are concerned ) . |