Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing was said , but she had the impression it had been examined almost as closely as Maurice 's . |
| 2 | Volcanic effects have been even more sudden and disastrous , ranging from the explosion of the island of Krakatoa , between Java and Sumatra , in 1883 to the even more catastrophic eruption of Santorini ( or Thira ) in the Aegean about 1470 B.C. This eruption , or series of eruptions , which resulted in the huge collapsed caldera in the sea beside the present island , must have been the greatest catastrophe ever witnessed by man and may well have been heard as far away as Britain . |
| 3 | However , the effects of urban growth on rural communities had been recognized as long ago as the late 1930s , when Ashby ( 1939 ) argued that the unbalanced age structure and uneconomic service provision caused by rural depopulation had been offset by the spread of urban population into the rural areas in the inter-war years . |
| 4 | Although the need for one organization of policy-making for curriculum and examinations had been recognized as long ago as the mid-1960s ( through the establishment of the Schools Council ) , it had been abandoned in the early 1980s in favour of centralized curriculum-making and a blanket acceptance that the assessment of individual pupils ' achievement would lead to greater improvements in the system than the development of logically connected public examinations and national qualifications . |
| 5 | In fact the layers are stacked vertically not horizontally as shown in the drawing — the horizontal position was chosen to suggest that the layers were still " supporting the front-line units . |
| 6 | The burning oil wells of Kuwait continue to cause widespread air pollution , notably in the form of " black rain " , which has been reported as far away as Bulgaria , Afghanistan and Pakistan . |
| 7 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 8 | It is clear that the accounts of miracles in the Bible are written just as factually as the accounts of other events . |
| 9 | The 30MW sets were extremely conservative ( the first set with the standard conditions had been commissioned as long ago as 1929 ) , but Pask , the chief engineer , resisted pressure to reduce the number of such sets in the early years and concentrate more on the 60MW design . |
| 10 | Ocean currents are important for other coastal plants such as some mangroves ( though none of these has reached the isolated archipelago of Hawaii ) , while seeds of the forest lianes , Entada ( Leguminosae ) , are washed even as far as Europe . |
| 11 | An earlier wharf there had been used as long ago as the mid 17C. to off-load haematite brought up from Low Furness mines for the le Fleming family 's iron forge on Church Beck . |
| 12 | Since then churches have been named after Charles the Martyr and his claims have sometimes been asserted quite as highly as in 1662 . |
| 13 | In solid metals , these spheres are packed together as closely as possible . |
| 14 | The median age of the patients is 54 and men are affected twice as often as women . |
| 15 | The case of Mary Ann Titford , née Parkes , is fairly typical in this respect : her grandchildren , still alive in the 1980s as this story is being written , remember her well , though she had been born as long ago as 1849 . |
| 16 | Nesting has been proved as far inland as Harting . |
| 17 | In Mycenaean times , Thorikos on the east Attic coast was importing the black volcanic glass called obsidian from the island of Melos , a reminder that there was and is a good little harbour nearby at Laurion ; Attic submycenaean and geometric pottery has been found as far away as western Asia Minor ; and the archaic Athenian colonies at Sigeum and the Chersonese , and the sixth-century cleruchies on Salamis and Euboia , foreshadow the fifth-century empire . |
| 18 | Isolated examples have been found as far afield as ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley , another illustration of the extent to which the most precious substances might be distributed to different polities by way of prestige networks . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Harp Lager who have been behind the new building all along , are to be congratulated on their commitment to Down Royal and also for making sure that the flagship of racing on the track , the Ulster Harp Derby , has been boosted financially as well as given a new look . |
| 20 | Grandmothers are remembered twice as often as grandfathers — principally because they survived longer ; but it would seem that physical survival coincides here with salience in the memory . |
| 21 | Still-lifes on tables , dresser tops , window sills and mantelpieces can be improvised just as successfully as those on walls . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | But Tilda had taught herself to produce , by widening her mouth into the shape of an oblong , a most unpleasant imitation of a bosun 's whistle , which could be heard almost as far as Lord Jim . |
| 24 | The oohs and aahs could probably be heard as far away as Ecclesfield . |
| 25 | The law therefore allows the offence to be treated just as seriously as rape , and we have seen how some would argue that it should be included as a form of rape , or at least as a form of the most serious offence of sexual assault , in any reformed law . |
| 26 | Why did he spend his life making films that would be forgotten almost as quickly as it took to make them ? |
| 27 | In fact the chances for viewing exciting wildlife are getting rarer every day , as hundreds more people take to the hills , bringing dogs and children and wearing colours that can be seen as far away as Belgium . |
| 28 | Most ceremonies take place in a synagogue , but can be performed anywhere so long as they are under a chuppah ( wedding canopy ) . |
| 29 | In the meantime , a tourism study should be got underway as quickly as possible to ensure we maximise our influence over the WTB 's thinking . |
| 30 | If the sun is shining the focal length can be measured just as easily as for a converging lens : the lens is held so that its shadow falls on a sheet of paper . |