Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This traditional spokesmanship , which can imply serious responsibilities , is naturally becoming less significant today as modern communications and education reach into the furthest quarters of the globe . |
| 2 | It was considered as wrong then as it is now to embezzle the Crown 's revenues . |
| 3 | But other members of the EEC will undoubtably support changes — the hope is it wo n't lead to sights like this becoming as common here as it is in some other parts of Europe . |
| 4 | At first they seemed so close together as to form an impassable barrier , but as they drew nearer it became clear that they were several yards apart . |
| 5 | I would still prefer to see the priority being a quick release of the ball to the backs , purely because they are looking as dangerous now as they have done for years . |
| 6 | She was not otherwise positively ill-looking , though anxious , meagre , of a muddy complexion , and looking as old again as she really was . |
| 7 | I found it very difficult to get past the first fleet but when I did the game became more enjoyable especially as the 256 colour graphics match most games out today . |
| 8 | Zambia smiled warmly , lovingly , encouragingly , remaining utterly silent so as not to frighten him off . |
| 9 | Johnny Tillotson 's Poetry in Motion , Lesley Gore 's It 's my Party , Cliff Richard 's Move It , the Ventures ' Walk Do n't Run , Eddie Cochran 's C'm on Everybody … all sound as fresh today as they ever did . |
| 10 | They seem as ancient now as Monty Python or Bobby Moore . |
| 11 | To anyone who did n't know that the place had been given up , soldiers would look as natural there as seagulls . |
| 12 | ‘ It might still be a bit premature to suggest that we have made it if we beat Lithuania , but it would then become very close especially as we play them again in Dublin in September . ’ |
| 13 | There are cases , including the authorities to which Cooke P. referred , in which an order apparently final has been treated as interlocutory so as to deprive a litigant of a right of appeal or so as to restrict such right . |
| 14 | And if a work as trite , foolish and offensive to women as Now , Voyager should , after 40 years , remain as watchable today as on its initial release , when equally feeble plays and novels from the same period have vanished into a limbo of neglect from which they can never be retrieved , it is a tribute less to the very questionable ‘ artistry ’ of its writer and director than to the enduring fascination of its leading actress . |
| 15 | These after all were stated in the original RAWP 's terms of reference and remain as valid now as they were in 1975 . |
| 16 | Mushy peas are believed to have originated in the North and remain as popular today as they have ever been . |
| 17 | The desirability of this is obvious , though it must be said without wishing to offend anyone that it seems as imminent now as it was when the claim was first being made 30 years ago . |
| 18 | Any archaeological sites not destroyed in this process are likely to be at least as severely damaged by the roots of the trees , which are usually set as close together as is economically viable . |
| 19 | This very popular music with its haunting , melancholy and often monotonous melodies is sung in Madeira but has never become as popular here as it is in Portugal . |
| 20 | The exact proportions in which oil and/or gas is present in the respective tracts become fully apparent only as wells are drilled in the course of operations . |
| 21 | Wimbledon v Manchester U That hard-won point at Liverpool a week ago must seem awfully distant now as Alex Ferguson approaches the most critical period of his managerial career at Old Trafford . |
| 22 | You did n't have the baffling and separation then ; everybody would get as close together as they could . |
| 23 | And they 're and they 're , we 've got Oak , big Oak trees that have started to get quite big now as they will and the rest is all a mixture of Horse , Horse Chestnut and Sycamore and couple of other like things in there . |
| 24 | Metamorphism becomes more intense northwards as does the abundance of the granites , which were emplaced syntectonically and deformed along east-trending vertical shear zones . |
| 25 | Much of the detail contained in this chapter remains as true now as when it was written . |
| 26 | We are committed to ensuring that this reputation remains as sound tomorrow as it is today . |
| 27 | Her mocking laughter sounded as clear now as it had done months earlier . |