Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even beyond would be snowbound , perhaps right as far as the sea . |
| 2 | For ‘ the game ’ was one that everyone played , and that was all right so long as you took your losses without squealing . |
| 3 | ‘ Papa says it 's all right so long as there are other people around . ’ |
| 4 | But Miss Philimore seems to think she 's all right so long as she 's watched , and it would save me having to look for someone else . ’ |
| 5 | So that was all right as far as it went . |
| 6 | This was all right as far as it went . |
| 7 | As he told the story , probably with some exaggeration , Evelyn is supposed quite often to have gone out , perhaps only as far as his aunt 's house nearby to borrow some sugar , and to have failed to return . |
| 8 | I think what was in the village news it arose out of those children 's survey down there and what happened was that Mrs did n't think we 'd er put in perhaps as politely as we should . |
| 9 | Skilfully used , a fabric border can pull a room together just as effectively as swagging everything in sight with the same chintz . |
| 10 | Maybe it was a compliment , their assumption that we could find our way down just as easily as they could . |
| 11 | Going much more slowly now as it records more conver conversations . |
| 12 | They will do so ever more loudly as the organ attempts to drown their noise . |
| 13 | So far as far as water sports are concerned I would make one reservation which is that there has to be some form of rationalization between competed sports which may conflict with each other and I am sure this can be achieved through the Sports Council machinery . |
| 14 | So as far back as 1974 it was spelt out by the industry itself . |
| 15 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |
| 16 | ‘ I want some continuity in the squad , going down even as far as the schoolboy grade ’ . |
| 17 | As one , the six typewriters began clacking again , not perhaps quite so loudly as their operators strained to hear the rest of the conversation . |
| 18 | The stern ramp is down almost as quickly as the anchor and the first mexeflote raft is soon manoeuvring into position … . |
| 19 | A couple of you get down there as fast as you can and watch the cottage . |
| 20 | In Gloucestershire the average man in the vale , situated between the Cotswold Edge and the river Severn , was half as much again better off as in the Forest of Dean across the river ( see Table 2.2 ) . |
| 21 | Some of these studies showed that the wheel-ruts caused by umbilical hose set-ups were only half as deep as those produced by the equivalent tanker-based equipment . |
| 22 | The recession has been only half as deep as the slump of 1979-81 , but it has now lasted ten quarters , against eight quarters then . |
| 23 | Government statistics out this week show that sales for ‘ mixed retail businesses ’ have grown only half as fast as sales for all retailers in the past three years . |
| 24 | This environment is far worse for lichen growth than any known in the Arctic and if we conservatively assume that the Antarctic lichens grow only half as quickly as those in the north , the former with a present diameter of 100 mm must be easily 10 000 years old and perhaps considerably older . |
| 25 | ‘ Affect ? ’ he threw back at her — most infuriatingly as far as she was concerned because she was positive that he knew full well this time the context in which she used the word . |
| 26 | I think a lot of the current concern about schools being accountable is partly because things that in fact are being done are not being seen to be done , and I think if many of the things that we already done were more obviously being seen to be done , and perhaps also thought through rather more carefully as to how they were being done , the public would feel generally erm happier about what was going on in their schools than perhaps they are at the moment . |
| 27 | But this clearly was not enough as far as Chaman was concerned . |
| 28 | I wanted to kill Blyth there and then ; the hiding he got from his father , my dad 's brother James , was not enough as far as I was concerned , not for what he 'd done to Eric , my brother . |
| 29 | From the various addresses given on the trade cards of coffin-makers it appears that many were sited off the high streets , yet not so far away as to be inaccessible to their clients . |
| 30 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |