Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Spring of 1963 gave way to Summer , one priority became uppermost in Whitaker 's mind — to get one script of each type of Doctor Who story together as soon as possible . |
| 2 | Consequently , social groups down as far as the craftsmen and artisans developed " an appetite for mass-consumption " which survived the impact of faster population growth in the second half of the century . |
| 3 | ‘ The trattoria sent it late , sir , ’ Wilson gasped , putting the tray down as carefully as she could manage , longing to escape from the room . |
| 4 | On the assumption that the account of this event in Molla Husrev 's life is at least broadly correct , however , and in the light of the documentary and such other evidence as exists , it would appear that he left for Bursa not earlier than Rajab 876 nor later than Shawwal 877 and returned to become Mufti perhaps as early as 878/1473–4 . |
| 5 | Meredith pressed her thighs together as tightly as she could , summoning up all her resolve . |
| 6 | If you eat more on some days and less on others , you will shed weight just as successfully as if you stuck to the same number of calories each day . |
| 7 | Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas . |
| 8 | And because the upper limit of a microscope 's resolving power depends on the wavelength of the waves illuminating the object under study , Sokolov suggested that an acoustic microscope should in theory be able to resolve images just as well as the standard optical system . |
| 9 | I find a track leading off the road into a stand of trees ; I take the car up as far as it will go , then turn the lights out . |
| 10 | He had been going to convert it into flats but backed out of the deal nearly as fast as the second prospective buyer , who was a surveyor himself . |
| 11 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 12 | In Andalusia , General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano occupied Seville on 18 July , while General Enrique Varela took the port of Cadiz and a long stretch of coast eastwards as far as Algeciras , close to Gibraltar . |
| 13 | The man , who had winched his seat back as far as it would go , lay beside her , staring up through the sunroof at the sky which was now a pure and empty blue . |
| 14 | Director of education Ian Reid said : ‘ We have amalgamated and closed schools and cut administration back as far as we dare although we need more staff to implement all the changes . |
| 15 | Diana felt a debt of gratitude to the woman who had been so kind to her during that first traumatic public engagement eighteen months before as well as an empathy with someone who , like her , had come into the royal world from the outside . |
| 16 | It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth . |
| 17 | Parties of up to 23 have been involved and , in general Avocets , are now likely to be met in small parties quite as often as singly in the county . |
| 18 | Although police remove the illegally-parked cars almost as fast as they are abandoned , the local body responsible for administering parking is insisting that someone pay the hefty excess charges incurred by the prolonged presence of other cars in legal spaces . |
| 19 | Armies of monkeys marching through the jungle roof on swinging arms took fright , too , when they saw the little file of humans and they fled chattering through the upper branches almost as speedily as the birds . |
| 20 | The student sits on the floor and opens his legs in front of him , pushing his body weight forward as far as it will go . |
| 21 | Some have fleshy whiskers half as long as their bodies which they project forward and wave about , like a blind person with a stick . |
| 22 | A publisher can collect that money just as easily as an artist , but a publishing company has the resources to offer the artist effective promotion services . |
| 23 | He waited for the girl 's regular visits to the sick cow just as impatiently as his dog waited to be fed . |
| 24 | Gases are offensive , smells are offensive , grit and dust penetrate houses just as surely as toxic vapours and car fumes . |
| 25 | The appliance manufacturers , the frozen food kings , the canners and food merchants exploited to the hilt the female desire to get out of the kitchen just as quickly as possible . |
| 26 | They believed they could win votes in Sunderland just as surely as in Mid-Sussex . |
| 27 | Bath had a good long look at the videos and soon saw that little variations of this move could break opposition defences just as easily as the blasting back-row scrum moves with which Australia had devastated England when they so mistakenly toured Australia last year . |
| 28 | Thus , Mercier and Baker report a series of experiments in which rats pre-exposed to a compound of a clicker and a light acquired latent inhibition to the click just as readily as subjects pre-exposed to the click alone , and this in spite of the fact that the light was a salient event that was certainly noticed and processed by the animals . |
| 29 | I think he was crippled by his upbringing just as badly as he was by the car crash . |
| 30 | Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better . |