Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , neither did the faithful military figure so much here as it did in the political activities of the Smolensk party organization . |
| 2 | In moderate amounts , it is not troublesome , but for dyeing work it may be desirable to keep the concentration reasonably constant so as not to affect the rate of dyeing . |
| 3 | I was told to stand up straight and , as usual , one of the guards pushed my legs as close together as possible . |
| 4 | It is best to make these shelves as close together as possible — say , around 10″ , and depending on the depth of shelf and what 's stored on it . |
| 5 | Mr Hurd looked every inch the professional , a man of gravitas who understood history and foreigners , an authoritative performer in parliament and on television , the sort of unflappable figure essential at the side of an untried leader as new abroad as Mr Major . |
| 6 | ‘ The ultimate driving machine ’ the ads said , a claim that was to stand the test of time like few others , establishing principles of BMW motoring as true today as ever . |
| 7 | On the other hand , this goal , that is , a sample sufficiently large so as to make it representative , had to be weighed against time , staffing and other factors which imposed a practical limit on the size of the sample . |
| 8 | Here are to be found squares and terraces as distinguished architecturally as in other British cities , and shopping streets which have been precincted and pedestrianised . |
| 9 | There will be certain positions in which such sheets of spheres will lie on each other as close together as possible . |
| 10 | No wonder there are 23,000 lawyers in Greece , nearly three times as many proportionately as in Italy or Spain . |
| 11 | In Darcy 's Utopia people will make up and change their minds , try something new , retreat to the familiar , suffer from requited and unrequited love as much there as anywhere else : how can it be otherwise ? |
| 12 | Was Soviet technological performance as bad objectively as Soviet writers in their hundreds said it was ? |
| 13 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 14 | This makes the accountability of the police as important here as it was in our earlier discussion of their general powers . |