Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.

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1 True , on the first working day after the bomb , business did go on much as usual .
2 True , Novell seems to be promising that life will go on much as usual .
3 Words come in only as convenient for purposes of illustration .
4 There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name .
5 OIL PRICES drifted down yesterday as leading oil producers struggled to find a compromise on production levels after three days of talks in Vienna .
6 Dictionaries go on just as usual — at present EFL ones — in the making of which I gather Orlando 's best friend 's father is also engaged .
7 Windscale slept on the bed , moving over reluctantly as warm comfortable pockets changed shape and form while Bernard and Ellen made love .
8 Joe Darby , who took over recently as chief executive , admitted that LASMO was disappointed by the 1992 results which included a pre-tax loss of £261 million after exceptional items compared , with profits of £7 million in 1991 .
9 The crashing seemed to go on forever as tiny broken fragments bounced with a dainty tinkle across the brick floor .
10 The blitz will be headlined by the long-awaited eight-way system and a 25% to 30% performance boost for the uni-processor 9021 , which is expected to tail off somewhat as more processors are added and coupling overheads multiply .
11 Foinavon passed the post with his ears pricked and that night he ate up just as usual .
12 so far below while up above as far
13 They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls .
14 Following President Galtieri 's 75% increase of the levy on non-Argentine mining interests around the South Pole , violence flared up again as British wildcat oilmen tried to even the score after their resounding defeat in the Malvinas War of 1981 .
15 … a charming set of young ladies who shine out prominently as sprightly vocalists and dancers , whose contributions to the programme are received with much favour .
16 Benny turned to go back home as usual .
17 He says his customers would go further afield only if discounting was ferocious , and in such an event believes that prices would soon start going back up as one or more of the big chains went out of business .
18 Evidently the carrier landings did n't work out well as those operations and their filming was quickly terminated .
19 But she had begun the withdrawal and her synapses knew enough to carry it out even as thousands of her brain-cells died in the nova .
20 Results are printed out either as combined sound levels in one place or in the form of a contour map showing the decibel levels
21 She looked around nervously as another thought occurred to her .
22 ‘ But I will stick around only as long as I am doing justice to myself and the team .
23 They turned south this time and soon Jenna was amused and intrigued to see huge gaggles of geese in fields , moving about almost as one and honking loud enough to be heard over the noise of the car .
24 Firemen who pulled him from the inferno looked on anxiously as off-duty technician James McDonald tried to revive him .
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