Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , to put things into a proper perspective , I should point out that just such bantering on my new employer 's part has characterized much of our relationship over these months — though I must confess , I remain rather unsure as to how I should respond . |
| 2 | I understand your feelings , child ; and I , too , feel … but … but , ’ and the voice became rather thick as she ended , ‘ we will not demonstrate them . ’ |
| 3 | Back in Britain , they found themselves being treated much better as they grew in stature . |
| 4 | We fished for several hours without seeing so much as a fin . |
| 5 | Nothing succeeded so much as success for the organization . |
| 6 | He even made so bold as to ask about Maureen O'Duffy . |
| 7 | Patrick made so bold as to ask : ‘ Do you know if they 're coming from Ashford or Headquarters ? ’ |
| 8 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 9 | Behind them she could work with a charm and singleness of attention that became so smooth as to be chilling , except for the friendliness of her large grey eyes . |
| 10 | Behind them she could work with a charm and a singleness of attention that became so smooth as to be chilling , except for the friendliness of her large grey eyes ’ . |
| 11 | A few of the burlier men put their shoulders to the door , but it was built of ancient oak , heavily reinforced with iron and their combined weights failed so much as to cause the door to tremble on its massive hinges . |
| 12 | This became especially colourful as it dawned upon employers of servants that they would have to buy stamps for their cooks and skivvies . |
| 13 | Their degree of visibility was also more predictable than the visibility of local candidates , though their visibility became less predictable as the election approached . |
| 14 | TTT , carefully nurtured in the early days of PNP — especially after our fourth report had provided both a label and a framework for its development — became less prominent as coordinators returned from a collaborative to a solo teaching role . |
| 15 | Although Stephen 's trips to the mills became less frequent as he appointed capable managers , the farms on the estate and the timber business still took a great deal of his life and Tamar found that time hung heavily . |
| 16 | In England this system has not been developed so much as in other countries . |
| 17 | Of 77 trips aboard specially commandeered aircraft in the past two years , Sununu had designated only four as unofficial . |
| 18 | It did n't hurt so much as it did with my Dad passing away . |
| 19 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 20 | ‘ Then I like the carpenter best — if he did n't eat so many as the walrus . ’ |
| 21 | Many do not remain sufficiently long as temporary workers or with any one agency to be entitled to any rights even if they were to have dependent employee status . |
| 22 | I entreat you both That , being of so young days brought up with him And sith so neighboured to his youth and haviour That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time , so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures , and to gather So much as from occasion you may glean , Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus , That opened lies within our remedy . |
| 23 | But A Rapid Course is not intended so much as an elementary textbook in economics as ‘ a graded series of readings and exercises designed to prepare a student studying economics in the English language . ’ |
| 24 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 25 | I was not angry or upset so much as concerned by the lads going so far in the wrong direction . |
| 26 | Beethoven , among others , could not comprehend how Mozart could have stooped so low as to set to music such an apparently frivolous text , dealing with the fickleness of women ; and the prudish moral climate of the later 19th century made sure that Così was conveniently ignored as a little aberration . |
| 27 | But pace bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis said in a statement : ‘ We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments . |
| 28 | We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments in the papers . |
| 29 | Percy took her hand , saying , ‘ Definitely my art is diffused , but I have never stooped so low as to even touch a guitar . ’ |
| 30 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |