Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 2 | I have noticed this just as clearly as the above many times while half asleep in bed but never had paper handy and so never wrote it down … |
| 3 | In these problem areas , the UK contributed around 20 per cent of the sulphur , over half as much again as any other country . |
| 4 | But cars are about half as much again as in Britain . |
| 5 | The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 . |
| 6 | In the " Old Rental " of 1682 certain properties were described as " Proper lands " and were " supposed " to be the benefaction of Sir Edmond ; according to the Goldsmiths ' records they were yielding only 56 13 4d a year between 1671 and 1720 , or only a little more than half as much again as the rent receivable two centuries earlier . |
| 7 | My very ordinary London flat costs about half as much again as my flat in Glasgow , which is an infinitely superior building in which to live in every respect . |
| 8 | Holding the tablet with the thumb and first finger of your right hand , drop this as far back as possible in the dog s mouth , without releasing your grip on the jaws . |
| 9 | In the 1950s , the decade on which this analysis is focused , timetables could have been translated from one county grammar school to another almost as readily as architects ' plans . |
| 10 | I see education as far more than just training you to go out and do a job , and I think the whole learning process , whatever you 're learning , matures you into being capable of taking responsibilities and learning other things , and I think arts subjects do that just as well as science subjects . |
| 11 | Fellow-feeling between Athens and Corinth , occasioned by Megara , is traceable as far back as the time of the Cypselid tyrant of Corinth , Periander : called on to arbitrate between Athens and Lesbos over the possession of Sigeion on the Hellespont , he awarded it to Athens . |
| 12 | In fact IBM says that it is pushing the MPTN technology as a standard as long ago as December 1991 when it submitted the underlying MPTN approach to the XNET workgroup of X/Open Co Ltd , which is still considering it . |
| 13 | What was crucial here as far as Chicago was concerned was that it could now boast a movie theatre as good as anything in New York and that the movies had been decisively disassociated from ‘ immoral ’ ragtime music by now being coupled with the Symphony . |
| 14 | The pragmatist might suggest that precision is fine only so long as everyone understands the term : in fact , Pulex irritans is less obviously a flea , than ‘ flea ’ . |
| 15 | A separate LLNL project is using high intensity UV light to destroy VOCs in water , but this has trouble with C=C bonds ; however X-rays destroy these just as well as single bonds . |
| 16 | You know , I mean , it 's not manned nearly as often as it used to be . |
| 17 | An organisation will be effective only so far as it helps individual members to achieve their own personal objectives , and a large part of the task of management is therefore concerned with this problem . |
| 18 | He intended to get better just as quickly as possible . |
| 19 | We like to have kings to worship and admire : we love a bit of gold leaf to ooh and ah at : we do n't mind being poor just so long as there 's someone poorer than us . |
| 20 | Obviously they 're , th the mortgage one actually is a , is a , is a joint one so having said it 's eighty thousand really as far as , as you 're concerned it 's ten , ten thousand pounds there for you and , and seventy thousand on a , on a joint life first death basis so |
| 21 | Probably Tyndall took a design from each and employed Bridges to make the model that bound them all fairly convincingly together as they now stand , each fine in its way but inconsequential . |
| 22 | Britain became involved with cable early on , the first worthwhile trial being that ‘ … carried out in 1838 by Brooke , an Englishman , across the river Hoohley in India ’ .3 Even as early as 1840 a House of Commons committee had looked into the possibility of connecting Dover with Calais . |
| 23 | That there are people alive as straight ahead as Abslom Daak . |
| 24 | A particularly big tremor on 1 September 1880 damaged an important lighthouse on the Java coast , and was perceptible as far away as northern Australia . |
| 25 | Those standing by the IBM shares for the sake of the thumping 6% plus yield now recognise that the dividend is safe only so long as the present management team is in place — and few would gamble much now on John Akers and his cronies seeing the year out . |
| 26 | Chris will be happy just so long as the examiners like his work . |
| 27 | One purpose of this article is to show that Britain is different , and different in ways that are important politically as well as in law . |
| 28 | The nation-wide state publishing organization , Gosizdat , was responsible for the dissemination of official literature of all kinds , but the flow of materials to the provinces remained very weak even as late as 1923 . |
| 29 | The Crown say that section 15 merely describes a particular type of theft and that all stealing by means of deception can be prosecuted under section 1 just as well as under section 15 . |
| 30 | Protectionist policies , designed to deal with unemployment , temporarily ended the rule of the Conservative Party at the end of 1923 just as surely as it helped the Conservative Party to political dominance in the 1930s . |