Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] as [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He handed her the double bladed paddle as she continued , ‘ I shall go down as far as Browns Mill , so could you possibly pick me up here about five thirty ? ’ |
| 2 | A firm conviction of the truth of all this , secure in the minds of the parents by the time the child is born , is the best insurance that the process will start with birth just as surely as does the process of feeding . |
| 3 | Total repression of conflict leads to anarchy just as surely as does total conflict' ( ibid. xii ) . |
| 4 | The other time I remember was when William the chromium platers in Street ye got bombed , with a high explosive bomb , but there was , there was no one hurt that I remember , and then the Halleys the tent people had an incendiary bombs and got burnt out , at the same night that they dropped some incendiary bombs on the bus depot in Road , they , they were a lot of work for the fire brigade , but comparatively speaking with , with Birmingham I think Walsall got off very lightly as regards the bombing , as there was no heavy industry around here . |
| 5 | In France , the Communist Party appeals to reactionary working-class prejudices almost as strenuously as does Mr Le Pen . |
| 6 | Whales do n't fly , but they do swim , and swim about as efficiently as swallows fly . |
| 7 | They do not keep in the clamp quite as well as mangolds . |
| 8 | It describes the present position but draws attention under the heading De-materialisation of Listed Securities to the aims of the TAURUS project which may be achieved shortly after this edition is published and which will change the position markedly so far as concerns fully paid securities of listed companies . |