Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | His penis and testicles are as fresh and as hard as a spring bulb . |
| 2 | She 'd turned it as high and as hard as she could get it to go . |
| 3 | Are sufficiently talented people as few and far between as functionalists suggest' ? |
| 4 | Third Class golfers must have been few and far between as my ticket example is only number 16 ! |
| 5 | The men gossiped as much and as scurrilously as ourselves . |
| 6 | The question is , how did these people come to see themselves primarily as nervous and only secondarily as hungry , malnourished ? |
| 7 | Mr Patten said that he had not turned against the idea of any and all new towns : ‘ So long as the location is right and so long as people can have real confidence that a decision in favour of a new settlement will relieve development pressures elsewhere , then new villages and new settlements could have a part to play in increasing the acceptability of new housing decisions . ’ |
| 8 | Our aim is to get as many points as possible and as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | If in any given case the land in dispute is unbuilt land and the squatter is aware that the owner , while having no present use for it , has a purpose in mind for its use in the future , the court is likely to require very clear evidence before it can be satisfied that the squatter who claims a possessory title has not only established factual possession of the land , but also the requisite intention to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . |
| 10 | As to this , counsel for the council accepted the correctness of the following statement ( so far as it went ) which I made in Powell v McFarlane ( at 471 – 2 ) : " … the animus possidendi involves the intention , in one 's own name and on one 's own behalf to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title if he be not himself the possessor , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . " … |
| 11 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 12 | In Barbados ( and other places such as Jamaica and Antigua ) , the wickets are fast and so the bowlers have traditionally bowled fast , while the batsmen have looked to attack at every opportunity , to hit the ball as hard and as gleefully as possible . |
| 13 | She should have followed her instincts and remembered what Debbie had written at the end of those notes , taken them as a warning and run as hard and as far as she could away from this Capricorn man ! |
| 14 | Most Bewick 's Swans are now recorded in wet grasslands or large areas of open water in the interior , although des Forges and Harber record none in the interior before 1940 and as recently as 1961 most were still seen at the coast . |
| 15 | Really slam into the punch bag , hitting it with a constant barrage of punches as fast and as hard as you possibly can for no more than 15–20 seconds . |
| 16 | Then , of course , there were the Bruces , Lord Bruce who should be preparing himself for death instead of being involved in politics as if he were some young courtier intent on rising as fast and as far as he could . |
| 17 | She wanted to get up and run ; run as fast and as far as she could away from this man who seemed to be intent on humiliating her . |
| 18 | By contrast the larger class-D animals , living on grasslands where rainfall varies , are less selective and so long as they do not crop the grass too close many animals can cover the same foraging area in a short time . |
| 19 | Paul Richardson was the first person they 'd met on the island who was prepared to work as long and as hard as they did . |
| 20 | After the verdict was announced Poindexter 's chief lawyer , Richard W. Beckler , stated that his client would appeal against the conviction and would " keep fighting it as long and as hard as we can " . |
| 21 | Mark trains every day as long and as hard as any able-bodied athlete . |
| 22 | For example , in the first quarter of the 19th century , the county 's population ranged between 85,000 and 100,000 and as late as 1860 was still under 200,000 . |
| 23 | Tolkien could be learned and practical at once , a style common enough in Old English but ( he probably reflected ) less and less so as the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance wore on , seeing to it that ‘ education ’ meant increasingly ‘ education in Latin ’ and the creation of a distinctive literary caste . |
| 24 | A mood which seems to be slipped into more and more frequently as the months have elapsed since they first met . |
| 25 | Mr makes there was an under , enumeration of figures and that has been made clear in the reply the reply is quite clear about the basis on which the structure plan is being promulgated and the total projected total population in two thousand and six regards the historical data , that should be taken , as far as I 'm concerned , as matters of fact , will of course not be absolutely accurate and as far as projected data is concerned all that we can do any of us can do is to try and make the best estimates possible and I am satisfied that our officers will have done that . |
| 26 | I should wish you were brought home in wine rather than to come in so sober and so late as you do . |
| 27 | He became an experienced weaver before moving to the warehouse as superintendent in 1973 and more recently as Manager in 1986 . |
| 28 | For all the rhetoric of a ‘ classless ’ society , of enabling people ‘ to rise as far and as fast as they can ’ , to quote John Major 's first speech to the new parliament , the reality remains of a nation in which inherited wealth and privilege , and institutionalised power or authority , matter far more than what individuals make of themselves . |
| 29 | But then another gunshot sounded , much closer than the first and as loud as thunder overhead . |
| 30 | They wanted to see it happy and successful and as far as possible united . |