Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 2 | They were overwhelmed with replies , however , when they asked if people were prepared to come forward as character-witnesses for the parents of the nine South Ronaldsay children whose plight had moved the nation . |
| 3 | There 's no chance of this occurring here as the Doctors continue on their premeditated way to becoming this generation 's Wolfe Tones ( dreary Irish folk re-pub-licans from the '70s ) . |
| 4 | The bass section is fully enclosed as expected , but the rest of the enclosure is open a the back , and only partly enclosed at the sides , making the system free to radiate backwards as well as forwards ( this property is known as ‘ dipole ’ , or figure of eight radiation ) . |
| 5 | So it is arguable that the select committees promote independence of mind among MPs and make them less willing to vote automatically as the whips would like . |
| 6 | She did not try on the apricot chiffon , with panels of silver beads back and front , some of them loosened , some vanished away as though a bead-eating insect had been at it . |
| 7 | Truman was not prepared to do so as yet , despite the fact that in general he fully supported Acheson . |
| 8 | The trouble is that no other country is prepared to pay even as much ( ie , little ) as the Russians for surplus EC butter ; much of it would go rancid in the Community 's cold stores . |
| 9 | And please feel free to stay away as long as you please . ’ |
| 10 | This continues today as the natural forest resource is managed to provide wood and wood-based products in both the developed and developing world . |
| 11 | Are in receipt of a minimum annual income of £10,000 including guaranteed bonuses etc. , and can expect this to rise significantly as your career develops . |
| 12 | Because , this works just as well for selfishness , because , if you think of it , selfishness is negative altruism . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , London University 's proposal that the Witt should become self-financing comes just as the Getty computer programme is ending its support of the Witt Computer Index because it has changed its policy from building up a vast database of its own to producing systems for accessing other databases . |
| 14 | Spatial frequency is less intuitively obvious but is related to the number of times the display cycles from light to dark to light again as you go a fixed distance in a single direction across the display . |
| 15 | Out of nerves and hero worship , he had three double Scotches before setting out and two more on the way , and then made himself self-destructively late by going into a greengrocer 's to buy some mint to chew so as to disperse the Scotch . |
| 16 | I found it impossible to answer brusquely as I had intended . |
| 17 | Exactly how much less is impossible to state accurately as it depends on the rate of rainfall and consequent flows in different parts of the catchment , as well as on the water levels in the dams . |
| 18 | However , while it is possible to discount the efficiency consequences at low rates of tax , it becomes less and less easy to do so as the rates of tax get higher . |
| 19 | AS EASY TO USE ABROAD AS AT HOME |
| 20 | Mr Newman added that ‘ you do n't need an accountant to prepare your cash flow statements every month ; indeed I would suggest that it is dangerous to do so as it is your business , your livelihood . ’ |
| 21 | This equation is not easy to solve numerically as it stands ; however , if we are given an approximation unc to an eigenvalue , we write unc for the exact eigenvalue , which therefore satisfies ( 4 ) , so that we obtain |
| 22 | Lisney adds to The Seasons three pieces , the Op. 59 Dumka a piece lasting some eight minutes , not easy to hold together as well as here , the Op. 5 Romance written for Désirée Artôt and the Op. 7 Valse-scherzo . |
| 23 | Some of these areas were impossible to assess accurately as staff shopped , cooked , and managed finances for many residents , therefore estimates of their skills were unclear — e.g. because food was provided there was no reflection of the need for cooking skills . |
| 24 | They also convince you it 's just as dangerous to stay indoors as well . |
| 25 | While there are many further applications of biotechnology in agriculture , such as in the treatment of agricultural waste , the examples given above testify to its potency as a future agent of environmental change , a potency which is likely to increase exponentially as genetic engineering develops ( section 8.4.3 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ In the course of time the present [ 1954 ] conflict between Communism and Democracy , between East and West , is likely to pass just as the religious wars of the 16th and 17th century have passed . |
| 27 | These performed just as required , with pious platitudes followed by prevaricating and tut-tutting in a most gratifying manner . |
| 28 | Barrow is likely to play today as John Kelly returns , while Neil Morton and Barry Butler are ruled out through injury . |
| 29 | Young single women with children are overwhelmingly likely to be living in local authority housing , and those who married early and/or had a pre-marital conception are more likely to do so as well . |
| 30 | I heard these played both as quartets and as an octet many years ago , and found the music surprisingly good and the idiom not unpleasant . |