Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie was shown into a very expensive flat that overlooked the river and she had one of her rare glimpses of the owner as he stood with his back to a roaring fire and regarded her through eyes that were just as sharp as they had ever been in his youth . |
| 2 | A regional manager spends more time , you know , okay , it 's a little bit longer , I deal with more lines than you , the pressure is far , you know , every branch manager I know , the guy 's got to believe that they 'll get staff from somewhere , it 's just as long as they get the order in and the availability right . |
| 3 | We know from experimental evidence that dreams proceed as it were in " real " time , and are just as long as they seem . |
| 4 | They were young , rich and ambitious , typical Hooray Henries , with Sloane Ranger girlfriends ; Charles found them just as unsympathetic as they found him . |
| 5 | The rather frayed drapes , either side of the tall windows , had a silky sheen in the soft lamplight , the scratched furniture and the threadbare state of the rugs no longer as visible as they had been under the brilliant glare of the harsh overhead light . |
| 6 | ‘ Some hoped to be saved by going ; others did n't care if they were damned so long as they found new fields for profit and adventure . |
| 7 | Most of the skulls and mandibles were still as complete as they left the pellet , with little loss of basal and occipital bone and slight breakage of the tip of the ascending ramus of the mandible . |
| 8 | Although I personally endorse Labov 's views on the matter of candid recording , it has to be admitted that the issues are not always as clear-cut as they seem . |
| 9 | That evening , at the Royal in Tipperary , John asked MacMinimum if that was really so — was the distress always as bad as they had seen it today ? |
| 10 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 11 | Even in the northern counties , Scottish raids were never as frequent or as deeply penetrating as they had been in Edward II 's reign , and although the inhabitants of those counties made the most of their plight in petitions for relief from taxation , the raids in the years after 1332 did little long-term damage to the region 's economy . |
| 12 | Are they really as good as they make out ? |
| 13 | If the paramilitaries are really as untouchable as they seem , the world will begin to draw parallels between the PLO , the ANC , the IRA and the UDA . |
| 14 | But was it really as bad as they said ? |
| 15 | Yes , I would hope that er this is a mark time ; it gives us a time to re-examine some of the schemes to see whether they are as financially viable as they looked er when perhaps times were better , and we would be hoping very much that er the economy will pick up and with it , land sales . |
| 16 | The new finance minister , Carlos Bolona , was educated at Oxford and is as financially orthodox as they come in Peru . |
| 17 | They had both slowly turned their heads , which were now very close as they stared to where a grassy bank rose to a narrow stretch of woodland that bordered the house gardens . |
| 18 | The issue was as politically predictable as they come , there should have been no muddle as a result . |
| 19 | Against Sri Lanka it was even more humiliating as they lost the Test by five wickets and both one-day internationals by embarrassing margins . |
| 20 | The police had apologized for the incident as if they were personally to blame , their apologies becoming even more profuse as they told her that , without a number plate ( which she had been unable to remember ) to trace , there was little chance of them finding the car , let alone the driver . |
| 21 | They are becoming increasingly more important as they want to er and try to impose policy on travellers , and therefore price is becoming much more of an issue with them . |
| 22 | Doubts like this crystallize at one or two points , either where the presuppositions are so mixed and unsatisfactory that they are inaccurate , or where the presuppositions are true as far as they go but do not go far enough and so are incomplete . |
| 23 | ‘ But clever though the cruel invaders were , they were not quite so clever as they believed . |
| 24 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 25 | The walls were no longer quite so solid as they had seemed , and each white-suited attendant seemed to conceal an assassin dressed in black . |
| 26 | By night the bars can get quite lively , although not quite so wild as they get during the winter months when the skiers reenact their greatest runs . |
| 27 | But it was hard to scowl , she found , when her heart was suddenly skittering at the way the dark eyes were quite openly smiling as they continued to focus on her now lightly rising bosom . |
| 28 | So , when the subject under debate is the country 's richest cultural jewel , feelings are likely to run at least as high as they did in Paris over the pyramid at the Louvre or in London over the National Gallery extension . |
| 29 | It was the very same story the time oor Isa sent for the stilettos very much against my advice as it happens but they were supposed to be real made-in-England leather uppers available in three colourways , aubergine , aqua or avocado well , as she said herself she was expecting green but nothing quite as Irish as they turned out in fact to be . |
| 30 | IBM Corp enabled Wall Street to start last Tuesday with a smile on its face , reporting first quarter net profit of $1.04 a share , significantly ahead of analysts ' best estimates — but the figures are not quite as good as they looked , because a change in the basis of recognition of software revenues . |