Example sentences of "[indef pn] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 2 | Even to someone as straight as myself , the bearded gentleman is preferable to Anneka Rice or Judith Chalmers . |
| 3 | ‘ All children come into the world in pain , Edith , but none as painfully as a bastard child . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | But none as far as I know is a homicidal maniac . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I knew that one as soon as I saw that it was from that is was a reject one . |
| 10 | The comparison is a literal one as far as the abbeys and other religious houses in the list of libraries here are concerned . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | They employ the absolute minimal number of people and keep everything as tight as they did when they first set out . |
| 15 | I 'm really sorry , but this has altered everything as far as our plans with you were concerned . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ If you can do something as well as that , you must be able to convey — a little bit — ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It occurred to Karelius to wonder whether the fräulein made a practice of confiding her problems to everyone as readily as in this instance . |
| 20 | as well as Callinicos , there is nothing as far as art ( as distinct from culture or politics ) is concerned which will a priori privilege a Tatlin made in revolutionary Petrograd from a Matisse painted in a hotel bedroom on the Riviera — Benjamin on technique notwithstanding ( do n't forget : Benjamin owned a Klee ) . |
| 21 | A spokesman said : ‘ We have lost nothing as far as our computer records are concerned and there is no need for policy holders to be concerned . |
| 22 | It 's worth also noting at this point that if you are a tenant and renting and you lose your job you are eligible for housing benefit , erm if you if you were er buying your house , although you do get some er er you get the interest I believe on your mortgage paid , there are lots of other things that do not get paid but the thing is that if you have a reduction in your income which might happen where one partner say lost a job , er you s you 're eligible for housing benefit but you get nothing as far as company paid mortgage is concerned . |
| 23 | As one who has listened to nothing as often as BM 's solo albums these last two years ( OK , you 've established your credentials , now come to the point — IM ) I can not speak highly enough of the man ( try a step-ladder — IM ) . |
| 24 | Surely it can not be possible , she was thinking , to love anyone as intensely as I love this man . |
| 25 | I do n't trust anyone as far as I could throw them : it 's as simple as that . |
| 26 | ‘ I caught sight of him in the garden a moment ago — at least , I 'm pretty sure that brooding silhouette was his , looming in the shrubbery — and he was n't seducing anyone as far as I could see . ’ |
| 27 | Now if we do n't do that of course we er we 're going to change lots of patterns , we 're going to potentially increase er commuting out of the area into Leeds , that 's not something which we feel is consistent with er planning policy guidance in the realm erm , I do n't think there 's anything as far as I know in R P G two which er says that adjoining authorities around West Yorkshire should n't er seek to make provision reasonable provision for their own er residents ' needs . |