Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All else failing , a man 's character may be inferred from nothing so surely as the jest he takes in bad part . ’ |
| 2 | Therefore he keeps walking , ‘ thinking of nothing so long as he could refrain from thinking ’ . |
| 3 | We never rested five minutes that he did not fall asleep and gave us a little nasal music , and which hindered me nothing so fully as I wished to have done . |
| 4 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 5 | Even to someone as straight as myself , the bearded gentleman is preferable to Anneka Rice or Judith Chalmers . |
| 6 | In fact technically I ought to have someone else here as well , but I thought that as the sergeant knew the facts of the enquiry ( in fact he was instrumental in getting the information we 'd like to question you about ) , it would keep it in the family so to speak if he acted as my amanuensis , that 's the word , is n't it , Sergeant Pascoe ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ All children come into the world in pain , Edith , but none as painfully as a bastard child . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The princes are no longer seen in the gardens , child — none as far as I know has had sight or sound of them for several weeks . |
| 9 | But none as far as I know is a homicidal maniac . |
| 10 | The issue would appear to be a novel one so far as the researches of counsel go . |
| 11 | The design point is a good one so far as it goes … |
| 12 | I do understand that the burden of an elderly , dependent relative , even of one so sprightly as your mother , can be great . |
| 13 | Well , that seems to be everything so far as tomorrow is concerned . |
| 14 | One would think that monastic orderliness would be ingrained in one as deep as heart 's blood , by thirty-five , but it did not seem so , with me . |
| 15 | If you believe you may be entitled to special relief and have not completed a form please request one as soon as possible so that your entitlement may be assessed . |
| 16 | Determined to recover as quickly as possible , she sucked harder on the juice and asked the nurse for another one as soon as she was finished . |
| 17 | I knew that one as soon as I saw that it was from that is was a reject one . |
| 18 | The comparison is a literal one as far as the abbeys and other religious houses in the list of libraries here are concerned . |
| 19 | Rory Scott says roguishly : ‘ She was very sexually attractive and the relationship was not a platonic one as far as I was concerned but it remained that way . |
| 20 | Since literature , whatever else it might be , is undoubtedly a form of communication , this development is obviously an extremely important one as far as literary studies are concerned . |
| 21 | all that 's been disclosed is one as far as I know , erm your Lordship can see that I at some stage need to have a look at them , er before I complete in any way so I can cross examine Mr er my Lord may I just say this , on the seventeenth of November , that 's two days ago , we asked for the documents of the necessary twelve M P's two days ago |
| 22 | They employ the absolute minimal number of people and keep everything as tight as they did when they first set out . |
| 23 | I 'm really sorry , but this has altered everything as far as our plans with you were concerned . |
| 24 | Others , and particularly the teachers , may seem too busy with their classes for the head to ask them to share this part of the school work-load , there is a shortage of clerical support , the heads want to be seen as in charge of everything as far as possible , and so on . |
| 25 | ‘ If you can do something as well as that , you must be able to convey — a little bit — ’ |
| 26 | Darlington council should do something as quickly as possible to have repairs done to the perimeter fencing , they would be surprised at the number of people wandering through the park at night , plus the vandalism which is caused by certain people whose sole object is to thieve and destroy . |
| 27 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
| 28 | He does n't leave that sheep that he 's rescued in the wilderness , but he brings that one safely home as Jesus says , on his shoulder rejoicing , and he leads it by , as David says , the still waters , and by those green and verdant and lush pastures . |
| 29 | ‘ There 'll be no one anywhere near as lovely . ’ |
| 30 | It occurred to Karelius to wonder whether the fräulein made a practice of confiding her problems to everyone as readily as in this instance . |