Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing goes as fast as I want it ’ ) , there were problems with design . |
| 2 | Nobody speaks as well as you do . ’ |
| 3 | " I stopped reading my mail but Sarah ( his wife ) did n't , " Strange said after issuing an apology which said : " I want to express my sincere apologies … no excuse can justify my outburst , and nobody feels as badly as I do . " |
| 4 | In this case a control group would be selected which matches as closely as possible , member for member , the characteristics of the people constituting the experimental group . |
| 5 | But I submit that it might be wise to look for an interpretation of quantum mechanics which comes as near as possible to being in accord with the attitude so widespread among its users . |
| 6 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
| 7 | She has as far as pictures are concerned Rich . |
| 8 | ‘ Push or pull — who cares so long as the job gets done , ’ Hayman put in . |
| 9 | ‘ But somebody who cares as much as you do , you 'd want to know . ’ |
| 10 | yeah , but it goes from computer to computer , but summat 's gone wrong ai n't it ? , somewhere along the line , they 've rang the bank themselves maybe he did n't believe your dad or not I do n't know , she got back to him , she says , we 've rang your bank and they were very helpful , they saw it so what you have to do is ring Blackpool , she says as so as soon as Blackpool ring back , she 'll ring |
| 11 | She says as far as pensioners are concerned some will get hypothermia . |
| 12 | If she stays here like as not you 'll lose her anyway . |
| 13 | She runs as hard as she can from any situation where conflict may arise . |
| 14 | " I 've sent her to bed , " Sara said , " She works too hard as it is , for an old woman her age , " |
| 15 | And this is what distinguishes the reading of literature from the reading of philosophy which requires that one understands as fully as possible what is meant , and where it is assumed that the writing will illustrate the meaning in a direct and immediate way . |
| 16 | But I do not believe that one goes as far as going to the figure that the County Council is proposing . |
| 17 | Everything works so well as it is . |
| 18 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 19 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 20 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 21 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 22 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 23 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 24 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 25 | ‘ I think it fits as well as it ever will . |
| 26 | And then in the air it stiffens very slightly as it cools down , but I think on a nice warm day like this is might be . |
| 27 | If it gets as far as a decision , it will prove the leading case for some time on the thorny issue of what duty regulators owe the customers of the regulated . |
| 28 | It avoids so far as possible those terms of art which have acquired a special meaning understood only by lawyers in which many of the penal enactments which it supersedes were couched . |
| 29 | It is not the people who break the pattern of the Numbers stories , but God , for he responds almost exactly as he did at Meribah before . |
| 30 | The distinction is arbitrary and it varies very greatly as we move across the map . |