Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the site prepared to let me work , to carry on then as s they ma and I would n't claim my pension until I 'd finished . |
| 2 | This may prove a major challenge to clinicians expecting to carry on much as before . |
| 3 | He 'll want things to go on just as before , while he helps himself to a share of the takings . |
| 4 | Please remember that life has to go on abroad as well as at home . |
| 5 | The crashing seemed to go on forever as tiny broken fragments bounced with a dainty tinkle across the brick floor . |
| 6 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
| 7 | But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have . |
| 8 | But though none might be prepared to go so far as that , all British parties would quickly realize that apparent discrimination against women in their lists would do them a lot of harm . |
| 9 | However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality . |
| 10 | Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue . |
| 11 | Indeed , even without having to go so far as the Commission of the European Communities did at the hearing in arguing that registration itself already constitutes a form of establishment , it must be observed that in any event registration is a precondition for taking up and pursuing activities in the fisheries sector . |
| 12 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't like to go so far as to predict anything for Sunday but you can be certain I am far more confident about the race now than I was . |
| 14 | ‘ I am not myself convinced that the Government will be so foolish as to go so far as to privatise water . |
| 15 | As John Hamilton said , ‘ It was imperative to estimate extremely accurately as the materials and labour had to be quantified in the original bid . |
| 16 | And when I last looked at it , one question on behaviour modification had managed to creep on there as well but I ca n't remember what the question is , so you 'd better pay attention for the whole of the rest of this lecture in case I in case I remember it . |
| 17 | The function of a library service is to provide so far as resources allow , all books , periodicals , etc. , other than the trivial , in which its readers claim legitimate interest . |
| 18 | She fiercely ignored a small internal voice that warned her there was a fat chance of that coming to pass as far as he was concerned . |
| 19 | However , as Ketamine lacks the euphoric and social properties that led o the widespread use of MDMA , the drug is likely to disappear as suddenly as it seems to have emerged . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm going to try as hard as I can . |
| 21 | Important though this literature is , the main purpose of later sections is to isolate as far as is generally possible the impact of the government budget on the Lorenz curve that would otherwise have obtained , and then to consider proposals that are more closely tied to the poverty literature . |
| 22 | Please arrange for the solicitor to come as soon as possible so that I can sign the necessary papers . |
| 23 | you want a police to come as soon as possible , and you want to , to deal with it because it 's a priority to you . |
| 24 | ‘ I mean , you 're welcome to come as far as I 'm concerned ’ . |
| 25 | It is accordingly the main aim of this chapter to indicate as far as possible how The Silmarillion in particular should be read . |
| 26 | I have in mind How To Read , a disastrously misnamed little treatise , since its real subject is How to Write , and it is addressed to what Pound called ( with the engagingly dated Edwardian elegance that he never wholly shed ) ‘ the neophyte ’ — that is to say , to the young American writer who wants to know as soon as possible , though at the expense of considerable exertion which he is prepared for , how to assemble his kit of tools for the job in hand and others that he can dimly foresee . |
| 27 | This period balances the interest of the offeror to know as soon as possible the number of shareholders willing to accept its offer together with the amount of finance that it requires ; the interest of the target company not to have its business disrupted for too long ; and the interests of the shareholders in the target company to weigh up the merits of the bid . |
| 28 | ‘ I want to know as soon as possible . ’ |
| 29 | I thought you 'd want them to know as soon as possible . ’ |
| 30 | I need to know as soon as possible now whether we can do these surveys or not so I can fill the policies in . |