Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 'll have to know who 's coming but as I say , I 'm not bothered so long as Arthur and Angela 's there and and dad . |
| 32 | If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia . |
| 33 | Negotiations were conducted in great secrecy when the manuscripts had already got as far as the freeport in Zurich and were being examined by two well backed dealers and by representatives of the Getty Museum . |
| 34 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 35 | They had not got as far as Bamburgh , being warned by scouts of an English reinforcement army from Newcastle on the march northwards , which could have caused complications . |
| 36 | Women are faced with making a choice between the needs of their children and their own needs , and that is one of the things which , because they 've put the needs of their children , the needs of their dependents , ahead of their own needs , they themselves and the needs of women have not got as far as they could . |
| 37 | Indeed , that term is no longer used as confidently as it once was . |
| 38 | Stress-relaxation tests are not performed as often as creep tests because many investigators believe they are less readily understood . |
| 39 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 40 | When the patient is fit enough these measures are best performed as frequently as every 12 minutes . |
| 41 | Not used as frequently as medium . |
| 42 | The Tender is the defenders ' finest weapon , and is not used as often as it should be . |
| 43 | To explain why they were not employed as frequently as they were amongst the middle class until the inter-war period involves consideration of the complicated relationship between the occupational characteristics of both husband and wife with their respective values and expectations and how they related to each other . |
| 44 | In March 1939 the CRREC claimed that ‘ Not only are Jewish children with no particular religious affiliation being placed in non Jewish homes and schools , utterly abandoned as far as their religious education is concerned , but even children who have been brought up in a religious atmosphere … are being callously placed in non Jewish schools and homes , where they suffer mental torture which , in at least one case , has brought the child to the verge of a nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 45 | But then there are other forms where this description does not suggest itself , or might not be admitted if it did : for example , ballroom dancing , which would be normally set down simply as ‘ a pleasurable social activity ’ ( and as such different from art ? ) . |
| 46 | On the other hand , uprating many benefits in line with prices rather than earnings means that recipients have not shared as fully as others in the higher living standards achieved in the 1980s . |
| 47 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |
| 48 | According to the Commission , they should be progressively reduced as soon as possible — most likely from the start of 1991 . |
| 49 | what 's interesting is that those rivalries are not focused as strongly as they used around the very big clubs , and we 're talking less here about what 's gon na happen at Manchester United and Chelsea and perhaps more about the difficulties of Wolves and and Stoke . |
| 50 | When recall is delayed by 30 seconds , they are not remembered very easily as short-term memory has had sufficient chance to decay as short-term memory seems to decay after twenty or so seconds . |
| 51 | Although Clwyd was not hit as badly as Gwynedd , there was widespread flooding , including pensioners ' flats in Cae Brachty , Mold . |
| 52 | The urban environment is not defined as readily as a region such as North America or Australia but it is a way of studying part of the world that has some unifying attribute . |
| 53 | Overall , however , prevention and treatment have not progressed as quickly as was hoped , and research and development must be pursued vigorously to take account of contemporary perceptions of the disorder . |
| 54 | At present the authorities have not gone so far as this . |
| 55 | The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it . |
| 56 | But matters had not gone as smoothly as all that . |
| 57 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 58 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 59 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
| 60 | The conclusion would seem to be that the early Anglo-Saxon countryside was not run as efficiently as in the following centuries . |