Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He swore at it and at the siren still wailing as frantically as ever outside . |
| 2 | Karl stopped laughing as suddenly as he had begun , his face grave and concerned and kindly . |
| 3 | Pressed very hard by Lauda in the final laps — ‘ leading a race was a brand-new experience for me , ’ he admitted at the time — he simply clung to his lead by driving as hard as he could . |
| 4 | Next to him on his left , keeping as far as possible from the coals as though to emphasize his lack of pretensions to warmth , was Percy Makepeace ( ‘ We 're distantly welated to the Thackeways ' ) , the pale shred of a mathematics teacher . |
| 5 | The present aim of shaft design is to specify a particular bending flexibility in the shaft while reducing twisting as far as possible . |
| 6 | The survey will provide information about drivers ' perceptions of overtaking as well as of being overtaken . |
| 7 | Quite stiff for the grade , with several moves that leave you wondering if you are climbing as well as you thought ! |
| 8 | The landlord will nevertheless wish to ensure that the premises are occupied and trading as soon as possible , particularly if they are located in a parade or shopping centre where the landlord 's adjoining premises could benefit from customers to the premises . |
| 9 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 10 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 11 | Somehow she could never hear disembodied footsteps on the stairs without wondering fleetingly if it might be Mark returning as unexpectedly as he had left . |
| 12 | Walking as slowly as she dared , Penelope was able to see that there were two figures in the room-Rupert himself and a woman , not very tall and wearing a dark , tweedy-looking suit . |
| 13 | She continued walking as fast as she could away from Emminster . |
| 14 | The small foreign person was walking as jauntily as ever , though Bramble realized that he did so with a pronounced limp . |
| 15 | We compromised on borrowing the Land Rover for positioning , followed by walking as far as their enthusiasm took them . |
| 16 | The President may be watching to see how long Mr Buchanan remains a contender , delaying as long as is necessary making an appointment that could fuel his opponent 's campaign . |
| 17 | ‘ It is curious that he is dying as picturesquely as he lived , ’ wrote Mr Gosse . |
| 18 | In order to ensure that the Society is operating as efficiently as possible , Council asked the secretary general to arrange for a management review of the efficient working of all areas of the Society . |
| 19 | In seeking ways in which planning procedures could be made more efficient , the committee noted that ‘ not all authorities are operating as efficiently as they might ’ and the greatest scope for improvement lay in assisting all authorities to reach the standard set by the best . |
| 20 | Arrobo is used for sweetening as well as for giving body . |
| 21 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 22 | It was easier for the Thatcherites to attack the welfare state successfully because its principles and institutions had not been adequately defended , as Dorothy Wedderburn and others were warning as early as 1964 ( Wedderburn , 1965 ) . |
| 23 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 24 | Here was a young man who could undeniably hold his own at a pavement meeting as well as in the more impressive surroundings of an election hustings . |
| 25 | The agenda of a National Security Council meeting as early as 10 March 1959 included as a main item the possibility of bringing ‘ another government to power in Cuba ’ ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 384 ) . |
| 26 | It has often been pointed out that in less developed societies , old people were seen as the repository of wisdom needed for daily living as well as for spiritual guidance . |
| 27 | It would be hard to justify living as well as you do while paying only a pittance for the privilege . ’ |
| 28 | Even if our ministries do not take that form of living as radically as that , incarnation does challenge each of us to apply the message of Christ . |
| 29 | Looking as well as could be expected . |
| 30 | In two weeks he will go to Germany for rehabilitation , and , by his doctor 's ‘ most optimistic expections ’ , could be training as hard as he was in July by the end of December . |