Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Witchcraft and sorcery , which in any case few other cultures distinguish as sharply as the Zande , are not the only mystical responses to the experience of affliction in tense relationships . |
| 2 | Brown and McCormick 's skuas and Wilson 's petrels fly as far as temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere . |
| 3 | ‘ I wouldn'a go as far as that , ’ Reid reproved me . |
| 4 | She raked and kept the gravel sweep as meticulously as she kept her house — a convenient house , its well of water only a field distant . |
| 5 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 6 | She squeezed her eyes shut as tightly as possible . |
| 7 | It is , after all , the case that open learning is growing fast in all phases of school and college work as well as for adult study . |
| 8 | The Colourcode play funk as hard as the Red Hot Chili Peppers , but with the feel that the Chilis so obviously lack on their heavy-handed interpretation of Stevie Wonder 's ‘ Higher Ground ’ . |
| 9 | The Colourcode play funk as hard as the Red Hot Chili Peppers , but with the feel that the Chilis so obviously lack on their heavy-handed interpretation of Stevie Wonder 's ‘ Higher Ground ’ . |
| 10 | The objective is to start the budgeting process as late as possible in the preceding year while allowing budget-holders time to agree their budget before the start of the budget year . |
| 11 | This gateway provides direct DIS network-attached access to Sybase bases on the IBM machine as well as on a variety of other hardware platforms and operating environments , DIS access to Sybase can be local , LAN-attached or remote . |
| 12 | The commission wants to tie down the December deal as soon as possible . ’ |
| 13 | They all lifted their arms in unison , and a battery of flashlights went off , making the jewel-like colours of each robe shimmer as vibrantly as the vivid hues of the glass in the shop window . |
| 14 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 15 | She thought that she never wanted to sleep with Jim again , that the bonds of love were snares and that she must at all costs leave as early as possible the next morning and never come back . |
| 16 | It has already been indicated that the tendency towards greater " flexibility " within newer forms of English was noted by Graham Hough as early as 1970 . |
| 17 | erm If United can play as well as they did this afternoon and Oldham perform as well as we know they can , we 're in for a really tremendous game of football . |
| 18 | Up until the final minutes the jokes fly as fast as sniper 's bullets . |
| 19 | In this case too , by maximizing their caring role , males ensure as far as possible that their young are ‘ got off ’ successfully . |
| 20 | And I want the explosives set as soon as possible . |
| 21 | If you experience any problems in meeting this timetable , please let Suzanne Pinnington on ( extension number 227 ) in the Education Service know as soon as possible . |
| 22 | Will my right hon. Friend go as far as to say that we definitely intend in the fulness of time to bring in legislation and , I hope , include in the legislation the provision that there should be at least one employee representative among pension fund trustees ? |
| 23 | Various parameters of the mathematical model , which represents the relationships between system components , are modified until real-world and simulation model behaviour agree as closely as possible . |
| 24 | I have to consider is that evidence correct as far as they are concerned , in other words do they believe that this is what Mr. Winterbone was like ? |
| 25 | The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts . |
| 26 | The supply chain project seeks to achieve this by focusing on future customer needs and driving them back through the activities of the business to make Guinness Brewing GB operate as effectively as possible for the company and its customers . |
| 27 | For instance , if examples in which females play an active role appear as often as those in which the active person is male , this may help counteract the prevailing view in society that mathematics is primarily an activity for males . |
| 28 | In summertime trains run as often as every ten minutes taking holiday-makers through to the popular resort . |
| 29 | Neither is it that tonics are not requested ; large numbers of people get as far as the doctor 's surgery to complain of tiredness , lethargy and mild depression , and even larger numbers go straight to the chemist . |
| 30 | Middlemass had finished The Times crossword by quarter to ten and had made the rest of the paper last as long as possible . |