Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he pays in first and then has to make an interim payment and he wants to make that payment out of the money in court , he must ask specifically for leave to do so and also to amend his notice of payment in so as to refer to the fact that some of the money has been paid out . |
| 2 | They have to learn a lot of different skills , and also in business nothing happens unless you 're good at organizing teams , so businessmen often get good at working with people , which is , I think , a hugely important experience so far as helping people to grow up is concerned . |
| 3 | Having an excellent harbour , Vancouver was a sportsman 's paradise so far as swimming , fishing , and boating were concerned , and while I have never claimed prowess in the water or in angling I have found pleasure on a boat , provided that boat was big enough — big enough that is , for me to sit comfortably on deck , preferably with a drink in hand , and watch the world go by . |
| 4 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 5 | Currently the most widely known ( and also most widely criticized ) theory on the subject is that of Noam Chomsky who has pointed out that , although children have to learn the meanings of individual words from their elders ( which would make language a phenomenon of culture ) , they seem to know how to string words together so as to distinguish sense from nonsense long before they have acquired any substantial vocabulary . |
| 6 | Morrow ( 1980:Part 4 ) takes the subordination of text to purpose and prediction so far as to use the questions to construct the text ( through a series of student activities like speed-reading of parts of the text , reordering , and blank-filling ) while the text itself is hidden away at the back of the book for consumption afterwards . |
| 7 | By all means use them when they are needed or appropriate , but there is no call to construct a headline especially so as to include one or more of them . |
| 8 | All you need do is have a lift-up lid instead of a solid base or shelves added under the actual seat part and you have immediately doubled the usefulness of the piece as well as gained some footage . |
| 9 | Josiah Wedgwood built his fortune on tea as surely as did investors in the East India Company . |
| 10 | And there has been some encouragement from within industry , reflected , for example in Business in the Community ( BiC ) , founded in 1982 and sponsored by firms such as IBM and Marks and Spencer as well as supported by the DoE and the Manpower Services Commission ( later the Training Commission , itself absorbed by the Department of Employment in 1988 ) . |
| 11 | I saw eyes as unkindly as stuffed fox 's . |
| 12 | Shiona scowled into his face with its arrogant high cheekbones , self-satisfied mouth and eyes as hard as sapphires . |
| 13 | This is why changing the voice of the verb in 9a from active to passive — which has the effect of interchanging the valency slots that the noun phrases occupy — removes the anomaly as effectively as replacing see or table . |
| 14 | If , instead of acting physically , the adult names the object — ‘ dolly ’ — the child is likely to interpret the vocalisation not only as referring to the object , but as a description of the ‘ doll ’ as an entity ( Ninio and Bruner 1978 ) . |
| 15 | The German Idealist tradition was born out of the rejection of British empiricism and some political commentators have urged that the legacy of this can still be seen in the idea that ‘ the Germans have only really to desire change in order to achieve basic changes in their position , and that these changes would in consequence alter the European scene so radically as to produce the longed-for peace ’ . |
| 16 | But it was Cromwell who remained the arch repository of true evil in the world , Cromwell who had persecuted Ireland so greatly as to overshadow even Queen Elizabeth who , vilifying Mary Stuart , had put her to a martyr 's death . |
| 17 | by the loading or unloading of a vehicle so far as concerns loading or unloading risk cover by a Motor Policy ; or |
| 18 | ‘ I am very far from saying that in every case in which a child is proving difficult to manage , a parent is entitled to strike the child so hard as to cause injuries of the kind in this case . |
| 19 | The tunes were in a slow waltz time but played with that characteristic thump which accentuates the first beat of the bar so strongly as to obliterate everything else , reducing any melodic line to a tribal dance . |
| 20 | ( b ) On the other hand the courts will not carry a literal construction of the articles so far as to defeat their obvious purpose . |
| 21 | " From this resolution of the Presbytery Mr Pearson asked to leave the chair , which was granted , to enter his dissent so far as regards Mr Charles McNeill . " |
| 22 | We can think of the electron not only as going through both slits but also as following paths both direct and indirect , moving both rapidly and slowly . |
| 23 | Profits are increasingly being generated by treating pubs not just as places to sell large volumes of beer but as broader retail outlets promoting food and a range of drinks . |
| 24 | He did not assert his claims for the structure and rites and liturgy of the Church of England as highly as did the divines of the next century . |
| 25 | It is very important that you visit and write to or phone your child as regularly as agreed . |
| 26 | Most people who have testicular cancer and who are treated for it and cured go on to lead perfectly active normal lives as far as having children is concerned . |
| 27 | Like every other class and institution , the nobility was tested in the crisis of 1808 and the French invasion : it does not seem to have failed in this test as completely as has been asserted . |
| 28 | Fifth-century Athens followed Pisistratus ' example consciously : he had swivelled the Eleusis Hall of Mysteries round so as to face the city of Athens ; in the 420s Athens inscribed a great decree regulating the offering of first-fruits to Eleusis by her own demes , by the cities of the empire , and by others of the Greeks ( ML 73 = Fornara 140 ) . |
| 29 | It was pretence , Cecilia knew , for no one could help feeling an embarrassment so deep as to amount to actual dumb fear in the face of such a performance . |
| 30 | France , Europe 's biggest agricultural producer , has opposed efforts to cut farm subsidies as deeply as demanded by the US . |