Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was determined to carry on as normally as I could . ’ |
| 2 | Local government capital expenditure is ‘ cash limited ’ , but current expenditure is cash limited only as far as the overall total of the Rate Support Grant ( RSG ) 3 is concerned . |
| 3 | We need to go only as far as eqn ( 2.21 ) . |
| 4 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
| 5 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 6 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 7 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 8 | The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin . |
| 9 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 10 | Bearing in mind that there 's something like forty companies chasing about eighteen percent of this market , do you honestly feel that your advertising revenue is going to go down as quickly as feel if you want to try and keep ahead of the the pack and keep up with the leaders . |
| 11 | But — there it was , and I began to go down as quickly as possible but with difficulty , for there was almost a metre between rungs . |
| 12 | After 0/30 , it is not wise to go down as far as 6C or 30C . |
| 13 | It goes together as simply as a child 's building blocks |
| 14 | Tendrils of Virginia creeper crept down as far as the window-frame , and progressed on little circular suckers across the glass , at huge vegetable speed . |
| 15 | Let's have a look at this year 's price list er it says nineteen ninety three but I say it 's carried on as far as we know er there are n't any at the moment increases . |
| 16 | The forms need to show the maximum possible numbers to include everyone on role at any time between January and December — please return them at or before the Reunion , but let us know verbally as soon as possible of any major changes — the office likes to give up to date information to enquirers . |
| 17 | But it 's that figure there that I think we need to concentrate on as far as good bonuses are concerned . |
| 18 | Let hair dry naturally as often as you can . |
| 19 | Right , what we need to do is to hit it fairly hard and try to get it damped down as quickly as we possibly can . |
| 20 | The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine . |
| 21 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 22 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 23 | ‘ I know I can direct just as badly as the people who made all those clinkers with me , ’ he joked . |
| 24 | Kerly harumphed , and moved off again , walking just as fast as before . |
| 25 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 26 | But now , the men on board ship above him were screaming , and with three holes fired on each side of the vessel , he gave the signal to bear away as swiftly as they could ply their paddles . |
| 27 | They would have to avoid the Warden 's forces , in these circumstances , so would require to plan their approaches carefully , keeping away as far as possible from Teviotdale and Tweeddale . |
| 28 | Ions are fine for probing electrically conducting materials because the charge they carry to the specimen is carried away as fast as it builds up . |
| 29 | The dance music is both fiery and resilient , and the mystic landscape of the famous epilogue so tantalisingly evoked that value judgements fade away as surely as the music 's vision itself . |
| 30 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |