Example sentences of "[noun] about [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NCp7B , which lacks both zinc fingers but retains the three regions of basic amino acids , was found to bind to and protect DNAs from nuclease digestion about as efficiently as NCp7 while NCp7C showed a slightly reduced ability to protect the DNAs . |
| 2 | The law of averages , if I have got this right , means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their |
| 3 | The sun came up about as often as it went down , in the long run , and a coin showed heads about as often as it showed tails . |
| 4 | This time they added 70 , played attacking strokes about as freely as was sensible in the conditions , and dug out or skipped a fair few difficult balls . |
| 5 | ‘ They still knock the ball about very well but like ourselves they do n't score as many goals as they should and their defence is n't as good as it should be either . |
| 6 | This particularly infuriated Dermot , the pack leader , and sometimes he would knock Patsy about so badly that finally his father told him off , not for hitting the little boy , but because Patsy 's subsequent sobs kept Patrick Milligan senior from his sleep . |
| 7 | This is taking a sense of the particular about as far as you can go : man evolving as harmoniously with his landscape as the mayfly nymph evolved in harmony with its stream . |
| 8 | A supreme baseliner , he approached the net about as frequently as Michael Heseltine visits a coal mine . |
| 9 | I was embarrassed — a state of mind which , you might have observed , transpires in the psyche of Oliver Russell about as frequently as the passage of Halley 's Comet . |
| 10 | Consequently , Wirral , along with a handful of other British urban communities , has during the 1980s been hit by heroin about as heavily as a community can . |