Example sentences of "[adv] away as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the birds will be spotted straight away as unusual by anyone with knowledge of wildfowl . |
| 2 | Early in the new century , for example , the Hooligan 's name was snapped up as far away as Tsarist Russia where it was used to describe crimes as diverse as murder , arson and rape , as well as a wide scatter of mischief such as obscenity , window-breaking and stone-throwing , defacing buildings , singing indecent songs , blocking public thoroughfares , brawling and stealing carriage wheels . |
| 3 | In Mycenaean times , Thorikos on the east Attic coast was importing the black volcanic glass called obsidian from the island of Melos , a reminder that there was and is a good little harbour nearby at Laurion ; Attic submycenaean and geometric pottery has been found as far away as western Asia Minor ; and the archaic Athenian colonies at Sigeum and the Chersonese , and the sixth-century cleruchies on Salamis and Euboia , foreshadow the fifth-century empire . |
| 4 | ‘ A lot of people came to see it , some from as far away as upper Teesdale and Cleveland , ’ said Mr Pilkington . |
| 5 | She sat in a corner on an antique settle as far away as possible from the blazing open fire . |
| 6 | Eternity as the sound of endless babble : one could of course imagine worse things , but the idea of hearing women 's voices forever , continuously , without end , gave her sufficient incentive to cling seriously to life and to do everything in her power to keep death as far away as possible . |
| 7 | I lower myself into the chair , keeping as far away as possible . |
| 8 | In the spring of 1940 John Avison and I rounded up a group of like-minded radio people with the object of renting a large house as far away as possible from downtown Vancouver . |
| 9 | We choose to use the outer thirds because we want the line to be drawn between two points as far away as possible without being so far out that they risk being unreliable . |
| 10 | They passed the beast cautiously , keeping as far away as possible , Allen and Marian with their bows ready , and Hugh with his sword in his good hand . |
| 11 | So always after that I would make sure I had a job to do as far away as possible from the scene , because it upset me a lot . |
| 12 | As a result , for her the only way to struggle with men was to run , as far away as possible . |
| 13 | In a radio interview on Sunday , Flashman warned Fry to ‘ stay as far away as possible . ’ |
| 14 | The driver sought out the agreed parking space which was as far away as possible from the canteen and shop complex . |
| 15 | Their language , hardly even a bastard grandchild of Imperial Gothic , was salted with oaths , the whole intention being to drive their meddling malicious God and its minions as far away as possible . |
| 16 | Can it be that one day , off it goes on , that one day I simply stayed in , in where , instead of going out , in the old way , out to spend day and night as far away as possible , it was n't far . |
| 17 | All she could do was to give Adam the completed programs , and then keep as far away as possible from Lynx and the man who ran it . |
| 18 | Merrill thought , as she sat in the car as far away as possible from him . |
| 19 | ‘ Aye , as far away as possible from this room , ’ fitzAlan agreed ironically . |
| 20 | He chose to be a marine engineer reckoning to go as far away as possible from the wastes of Leith and hoping to see the world . |
| 21 | THINK TIGHT , think sharp , think as far away as possible from the recent loose flowing , Eastern hippy influences . |
| 22 | Thin veils of smoke , detected by satellite as far away as southeastern Pakistan , 2000 km east of Kuwait , were found to have risen to heights of between 6 and 7 km . |
| 23 | A particularly big tremor on 1 September 1880 damaged an important lighthouse on the Java coast , and was perceptible as far away as northern Australia . |
| 24 | The two-banded plover is a resident species , but the white-rumped sandpiper is a non-breeding visitor from as far away as Arctic Canada . |