Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local government capital expenditure is ‘ cash limited ’ , but current expenditure is cash limited only as far as the overall total of the Rate Support Grant ( RSG ) 3 is concerned . |
| 2 | Not feeling up to arguing the point , she left quietly , knowing everyone else in the Carlisle Flint team was wound up as tight as the drivers , waiting for the green light . |
| 3 | Even when the happy couple had left for their honeymoon , and the floor of the marquee had been cleared for the dance due to follow the reception , she still felt as though she was wound up as tightly as a spring . |
| 4 | Latvian tombs , hoards of treasure found in Estonia , jewellery , statuettes and household articles discovered in Poland , together with objects from the Byzantine and Islamic worlds illustrate how this people of warriors and merchants expanded eastward as far as the Caliphate of Baghdad , while excavations in ‘ Norman ’ territory ( at Downham in Norfolk and in the vicinity of Rouen ) provide proof of Norse expansionism in another direction . |
| 5 | It is clear that the accounts of miracles in the Bible are written just as factually as the accounts of other events . |
| 6 | The trouble is that his men have done just as badly as the old guard . |
| 7 | And this was just one of a number of sites , known only to Halim and his team , where the early Chinese mariners had buried their dead together , as was their custom , with porcelain some of which had been fired in the imperial kilns of the Sung and Ming dynasties and dated back as far as the eleventh century . |
| 8 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 9 | Your shoulders are pulled up as tightly as a drawn bow . ’ |
| 10 | They have got a program of what 's being pulled out as far as the trucks are concerned . |
| 11 | Spider silk is made from proteins , and is nearly as strong as nylon , though it can be stretched twice as far as the man-made material . |
| 12 | He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day . |
| 13 | More important than that ( for medieval village buildings could have been swept away as easily as the Romans had swept away the native British buildings for their planned towns ) — a variety of ownerships and rights had grown up that precluded a unified plan even as early as the twelfth or thirteenth century . |
| 14 | But the academic publishing world has been hit just as hard as the rest of the academic world . |
| 15 | The trunk was studded with knot-holes spaced for climbing and the naked branches spun upwards as evenly as the treads of a spiral staircase . |
| 16 | From Rotterdam Cottage the cannabis was moved by road in vans to a garage in Station Road , Penge , South East London which , in the words of Scotland Yard 's drugs squad chief was " fortified almost as well as the Bank of England " . |
| 17 | The burden of Russia 's social backwardness could not be thrown off as quickly as the threat of political counterrevolution had been by the end of the Civil War . |
| 18 | The idea had been put forward as early as the end of the Second World War , when E. M. W. Tillyard had advocated a new relief university for Oxford and Cambridge at Stamford . |
| 19 | The Mentawai Islands off the west coast of Sumatra represent the highest parts of the outer-arc ridge of the Sunda Arc and this structure can be traced northwards as far as the Indoburman Ranges in Burma ( Fig. 3.9 ) . |
| 20 | Carcinoma , methadone , diabetes , depression , miscarriage and angina have poured down as unremittingly as the weather . |
| 21 | Of course you could try a tantalising headline but do remember that in the first instance you have to attract the attention and interest of the journalist or editor , who is not going to be tempted quite as easily as the reader might be . |
| 22 | A mission had been established there as early as the 1830s and the Liliuokalani Protestant Church , named after Hawaii 's last queen , was still standing . |