Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We need to go only as far as eqn ( 2.21 ) . |
| 3 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
| 4 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 9 | It goes together as simply as a child 's building blocks |
| 10 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Let hair dry naturally as often as you can . |
| 13 | And Clara , overcome by the wonderful , felicitous acceptability of his offer , an offer so familiar to her , so marvellously manageable , trembled only most slightly as she said , staring down at the limp arrangements of her hands , " Oui , surement . " |
| 14 | If we glued little pictures of galaxies to the surface , we would see that they moved progressively further apart as we inflated the balloon . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I know I can direct just as badly as the people who made all those clinkers with me , ’ he joked . |
| 17 | Kerly harumphed , and moved off again , walking just as fast as before . |
| 18 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 19 | When he came he had to pull away quickly so as not to spill a drop of his bodily fluids , like the instructions on the box of condoms said . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
| 25 | Now that the rush of anger had abated just as quickly as it had risen she felt cold , icy tremors rippling along her veins . |
| 26 | But John , he noticed , tended to wander outside as often as he felt tempted to do ; while Astorre had set up house quite candidly in the kitchens . |
| 27 | ‘ But , Noreen — ’ But Noreen was already walking away as fast as she could in the direction of the apartment house . |
| 28 | Gas imports will reach some 70 MTOE by 1990 but grow more slowly subsequently as gas supplies from Alaska increase . |
| 29 | Cal was thinking about having children , when she can act nearly as well as I can ! |
| 30 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |