Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 Since the opening of the Sterling Commercial Paper ( SCP ) market in 1986 , there have been regular issues but the market has not developed as quickly as national ( as opposed to euro ) commercial paper markets in many other European countries .
2 EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada .
3 The rapidly rising birth rate is only part of the explanation , since the birth rate has not risen as fast as urban populations have increased .
4 However the government has not gone as far as it might have .
5 In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms .
6 This sector of the market has not expanded as rapidly as expected .
7 This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped .
8 But it is naïve to assume that the LDDC has always operated as effectively as some reports would suggest .
9 Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice .
10 These attain elevations in excess of 3000m and much of this uplift has probably occurred as recently as the Late Quaternary .
11 Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned !
12 Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped .
13 ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank .
14 One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man .
15 One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out .
16 ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’
17 ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities .
18 By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’
19 The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital .
20 Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ?
21 Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking .
22 Negotiations were conducted in great secrecy when the manuscripts had already got as far as the freeport in Zurich and were being examined by two well backed dealers and by representatives of the Getty Museum .
23 However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays .
24 But matters had not gone as smoothly as all that .
25 Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin .
26 They had not got as far as Bamburgh , being warned by scouts of an English reinforcement army from Newcastle on the march northwards , which could have caused complications .
27 That day , by way of the radio popolo the news of the rastrellamento spread like wildfire , but it had not spread as far as Eric 's farm .
28 But when I saw it tonight I had just struggled as far as the road .
29 These had always done quite well as buses were not then allowed on Anerley Hill .
30 We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland .
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