Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] as [art] " 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 | Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 3 | This possibility is outlined by Foucault himself as early as The Order of Things . |
| 4 | Information is increasingly a very marketable product and the advance of information technology gives the library , as a major source of information as well as an important user of information technology , the opportunity to take advantage of the strong current interest , and promote itself as aggressively as the purveyors of the hardware and software . |
| 5 | If you did , the police would get involved , and that 's the last thin– anyone wants 'cause the pimps terrify you as far as the police are concerned . |
| 6 | ‘ All children come into the world in pain , Edith , but none as painfully as a bastard child . ’ |
| 7 | The issue would appear to be a novel one so far as the researches of counsel go . |
| 8 | The comparison is a literal one as far as the abbeys and other religious houses in the list of libraries here are concerned . |
| 9 | I 've tried it to my peril a couple of times , and it really does get quite embarrassing , so that 's a difference , and of course on the grey handset , there 's a pitch control underneath as well as a volume control , okay , so they 're a bit more modern , but I do n't like these actually , because you ca n't hug them as easily as the cream ones , they just do n't sit on your shoulder . |
| 10 | And this was one of them as far as the demon was concerned ) . |
| 11 | Only hummingbirds with curved bills can drink from them and their beaks fit into them as accurately as a curved dagger sliding into its scabbard . |
| 12 | His fingers slipped between her thighs as she parted them as eagerly as a girl whose lover had returned from the wars . |
| 13 | Listening to her heavy breathing and her occasional vigorous sniffs , I could feel her concentration as she followed behind me as surely as a blind bat senses light . |
| 14 | It hit me as forcibly as a blow to the stomach . |
| 15 | Some time later , my headache had receded , my costume was discarded and my bunk was clasping me as tenderly as a mother 's arms . |
| 16 | AB : Well it was always fairly straightforward for me as far as the repertoire goes . |
| 17 | Perhaps you 'll accompany me as far as the Rope Walk ? ’ |
| 18 | He pushed me as far as the trees and I seized a trailing branch . |
| 19 | The more I thought of that midnight face , the more intelligent and charming it became ; and it seemed too to have had a breeding , a fastidiousness , a delicacy , that attracted me as fatally as the local fishermen 's lamps attracted fish on moonless nights . |
| 20 | Oh well , she could n't drag herself as far as the Rex . |
| 21 | Watching herself very carefully as the shaping increased at the neck , she realised how easy it was to stop just short by an inch or so and not clear the selector . |
| 22 | Fincara 's maddening laughter rippled out , and she stepped over to him as easily as a dancer . |
| 23 | When he reaches back into his jacket pocket for that inevitable pack of cheap cigars I 'm watching him as carefully as a dog with a drunken master , unsure whether he 'll get a kick or a bowl of food . |
| 24 | Yet it was Everton who had the clearer second half opportunities after manager Howard Kendall had gambled on the pace of substitute Stuart Barlow by introducing him as early as the 50th minute . |
| 25 | Hackett says no other issue has ever touched him as deeply as the forced repatriation of the Vietnamese . |
| 26 | Fate had got him as far as a leading Sheffield estate agents , Blundells . |
| 27 | That night the Wordsworths walked back with him as far as the miner 's house , a short distance from the beech tree above Woodlands Farm where they often parted . |
| 28 | His cajoling got him as far as the first landing , but then his legs all but gave out , and thereafter he had to climb using his one good arm to haul him onwards . |
| 29 | The two Longner men who rode one on either side their borrowed minstrel brought him as far as the gatehouse , waiting in silence as he dismounted . |
| 30 | I watched him as far as the corner of the curator 's garden , and saw him turn in alongside the hedge . |