Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite stiff for the grade , with several moves that leave you wondering if you are climbing as well as you thought ! |
| 2 | In seeking ways in which planning procedures could be made more efficient , the committee noted that ‘ not all authorities are operating as efficiently as they might ’ and the greatest scope for improvement lay in assisting all authorities to reach the standard set by the best . |
| 3 | Okay well we 're waiting as far as I know for the money to come |
| 4 | When you go arter a job like that , if you 're doing as fast as what the machine will take it to do it properly , you ca n't force it . |
| 5 | An executive said : ‘ We 're trying as far as we can to ensure that our business operates normally . |
| 6 | The two eldest kids are doing as well as they can and are bearing up as best as can be expected , ’ she said ‘ But my youngest boy has n't left my side since it happened . |
| 7 | The Bishop : ‘ I think it is a very balanced and very clear statement of how we should be living so far as our sexuality is concerned . ’ |
| 8 | In two weeks he will go to Germany for rehabilitation , and , by his doctor 's ‘ most optimistic expections ’ , could be training as hard as he was in July by the end of December . |
| 9 | And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can , ’ cried Endill . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm waiting as patiently as I can but it 's getting a pain now . |
| 13 | While he may not be collecting as actively as he was a few years ago , his name still inspires sufficient awe in most art world people for them to request complete anonymity when discussing him . |
| 14 | Christ almighty I 'm trying as hard as I can ! |
| 15 | If you have experienced adverse symptoms this week , you may not be feeling as well as you did at the end of last week . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , considering I 'm working as hard as I am with all the stress involved , I think I 'm probably very fit . ’ |
| 17 | Manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ Carlton has n't been playing as well as he did last season . |
| 18 | It does n't matter how few clubbers are fighting so long as there is at least one . |
| 19 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 20 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
| 21 | Things were going as badly as they could . |
| 22 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
| 23 | But f***ing Newcastle … we did n't get this much parise our first season back … and I think we were doing as well as they are . |
| 24 | Usually , to please Father , I would also go on a quick visit to one of his shops and sometimes I wondered if they were doing as well as he pretended . |
| 25 | The research of the great ecologist David Lack ( 1954 ) showed for example that in many bird species of temperate zones , individuals were reproducing as fast as they were able and that the subsequent population was cut back every year by winter mortality . |
| 26 | ‘ It is curious that he is dying as picturesquely as he lived , ’ wrote Mr Gosse . |
| 27 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 28 | I do n't think it is going as fast as it can . |
| 29 | She is coming as far as you know ? |
| 30 | There is an old saying that whipping a donkey will do no good if it 's running as fast as it can . |