Example sentences of "go [adv] as [adv] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin .
2 It goes together as simply as a child 's building blocks
3 Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold .
4 In a review of studies on the ability of the older worker to learn , going back as far as the 1920s , it was concluded that changes in learning ability with age are generally small .
5 On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish .
6 He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day .
7 Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration .
8 The first of these went back as far as the second half of the sixteenth century .
9 These divisions run very deep and go back as far as the available documents provide information on such matters .
10 erm that went about as well as the first maths one .
11 Scotland went ahead as early as the ninth minute when George Gemmell crashed the ball home after Tom Brown 's cut-back .
12 CONCORDE : It goes twice as fast as a bullet and you get smoked salmon .
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