Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the permitted development rules for home extensions , this means no permission is needed , so long as adding the garage does n't result in the volume of the house being increased by more than the permitted development allowance . |
| 2 | In one condition of their experiment nonsense sequences followed a structural pattern of English in so far as replacing the nonsense stems by English stems would have resulted in a grammatically correct sequence . |
| 3 | Indeed , in so far as knowing the ‘ cause ’ would restrict our reading of the poems , it is the one piece of information we can probably do without . ’ |
| 4 | These new committees have greatly strengthened the House so far as controlling the Executive is concerned . |
| 5 | So far as minimising the environmental effects was concerned the WO encouraged planning authorities to discuss problems with them at an early stage . |
| 6 | So far as ranking the relative seriousness of sexual assaults is concerned , however , full account should be taken of the psychological effects of such offences . |
| 7 | Since the 1960s , when a number of new social movements — among them the student movement , various national and ethnic movements , and the women 's movement — became extremely active in political life , a great deal more attention has been given by sociologists to such forms of political action , which may be seen not only as constituting a basis or context for the development of more highly organized political activities , but also as political forces in their own right , existing alongside and sometimes in conflict with , established parties and pressure groups . |
| 8 | They understand straight up as meaning the direction of the sun , and they know which direction is straight up because they are sensitive to gravity . |
| 9 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 10 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 11 | Once airborne , the technique of control comes just as easily as riding the proverbial bicycle … until that is , you fall off ! |
| 12 | Harold is a very good prime minister as far as taking the Cabinet goes . |
| 13 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 14 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 15 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 16 | Did anyone get as far as buying a programme for the Villa game , or did n't they even go on sale ? |
| 17 | Once the observer decides that the mismatch of intended and actual activities is negative rather than positive as far as helping the children to learn is concerned , he will need to identify where modification is necessary . |
| 18 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 19 | As far as making the film succeed is concerned , there are really only three who matter , apart from any actors . |
| 20 | The Letterewe estate is run as a wilderness area and not as a commercial estate — this is an immense boon as far as preserving the beauty of the area is concerned . |
| 21 | HOW 'S ABOUT FAT , THEN : The Duchess gets as far as raising a leg but then decides exercise is just too much effort and takes the rest of the sunbathing session lying down |
| 22 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 23 | One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea . |
| 24 | ‘ If you want to sell and get as far as enticing a buyer , whoever it is will have the place surveyed , and any surveyor knowing his job will condemn it out of hand . |
| 25 | As far as restarting the musical life in Vienna was concerned , we had the problem that the occupying forces often contradicted each other . |
| 26 | It was n't all that much help , anyway , as far as tracing the kidnappers was concerned , but it did mean that on that point at least the Nilsen girl was telling the truth . |
| 27 | It is unfortunate that the United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure , while expressing authorising service in a manner prescribed by the law of the foreign country , contains no provision corresponding to that in the English Rules of the Supreme Court that nothing in the Rules authorises or requires the doing in a foreign country of anything contrary to the law of that country ; the issue is referred to merely in the official commentary of the Advisory Committee and then only as affecting the chances of the recognition and enforcement in the foreign country of a judgment obtained in the United States . |
| 28 | ’ Speaking for myself , I read that very broadly as giving the judge who makes a residence order the jurisdiction to attach conditions , or directions which I think are very much the same thing , as to how the children should be cared for and where they should be once the residence order has been made . |