Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Witchcraft and sorcery , which in any case few other cultures distinguish as sharply as the Zande , are not the only mystical responses to the experience of affliction in tense relationships . |
| 2 | The broad native roads made as straight as possible for their mark , like the roads of the Romans , seem to pick out preferentially the highest and steepest hills , which they ascend perpendicularly and without compromise . |
| 3 | The bombs stopped as suddenly as they started but the hollow screams of anti-aircraft shells continued without pause . |
| 4 | Brown and McCormick 's skuas and Wilson 's petrels fly as far as temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere . |
| 5 | The following year the Scots penetrated as far as Swaledale and Richmondshire , burning villages and seizing or killing resisters : on this occasion Holme Cultram abbey lost livestock valued at £500 . |
| 6 | There is usually a pressing desire of all parties to proceed as fast as possible so the solicitors are required to produce their draft agreement before they have received all the information requested or the accountants have completed due diligence . |
| 7 | Their lips met once more as slowly they savoured the pure essence of love . |
| 8 | That way everyone born after that particular time would have their sins forgiven so long as they believed in Jesus . |
| 9 | Turkle ( 1984 ) , for example , analyses how computers provide female-as well as male-identified cognitive experiences . |
| 10 | Some day a Western team will be able to get sufficient funds to train as intensively as the Poles , who yet again took the first three places and the team prize . |
| 11 | In the cases that followed ( ie the disposal of the whole of the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 3 ) ; a conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 4 ) ; and the conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to a third party ( Chapter 5 ) ) , once the husband had disposed of his interest no further tax considerations applied so far as the husband was concerned ( unless there was an element of gift involved in the conveyance not at arm 's length and the husband died within seven years , thus bringing in a charge to inheritance tax ) . |
| 12 | Facing him , she wasted no time , the words pouring forth just as he drew a reluctant breath before speech . |
| 13 | The purpose of looking at Hansard will not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear . |
| 14 | Finally , in rejecting the submission that relaxing the exclusionary rule could amount to the courts questioning proceedings in Parliament contrary to Article 9 of the Bill of Rights , Lord Browne-Wilkinson observed that ‘ the purpose of looking at Hansard could not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear ’ . |
| 15 | Her eyes flew open just as his lips found the delicate curve of her neck . |
| 16 | If an engineer considers that the necessary resources are being withheld or are not available , then this must be addressed with the other parties involved as soon as possible . |
| 17 | I do appreciate the discount since CPRW is a charity and we try to make our funds go as far as possible . |
| 18 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 19 | The blue eyes appeared as hard as steel as her brown ones met them fleetingly . |
| 20 | She squeezed her eyes shut as tightly as possible . |
| 21 | Some bisexual relationships work perfectly well as long as everyone knows the score . |
| 22 | Still drugged with sleep , struggling to free herself from her half-dreaming state , Isabel 's eyes snapped open just as Guy released her mouth . |
| 23 | The incentive given to savings and loan associations to invest as riskily as they could , the blind eye turned to supervision of thrifts and banks alike , the abolition of tax credits for investment : all were passed on almost without friction by the smooth wheels of finance . |
| 24 | Without using any money , some of the escapees got as far as North Wales , Yorkshire , and Scotland . |
| 25 | I believe Warwick changed over to using steel truss rods about eight or nine months ago but I would urge owners to have their basses checked as soon as possible , and would appreciate some kind of response from Warwick as to the precise situation . |
| 26 | For this reason it would appear likely that bones modified as greatly as these would be uncommon in the fossil record , and the predators that produce them unlikely to be important contributors to fossil bone assemblages . |
| 27 | Bohncke proposes from detailed pollen analyses of several pollen profiles that human clearance of these pockets began as early as 7600 , 5000 , and 4200 B.P .. |
| 28 | And it 's only if there is no spouse that matters go rather more as might expect , namely firstly always the children or the issue if they are n't any of those to your parents brothers an sis er issue of parents therefore brothers sisters nephews and nieces . |
| 29 | Some amateur associations went as far as legal prosecution to prevent any payment or pro fit being derived from the activities they controlled . |
| 30 | IBM files performed better the larger the bucket capacity , while ICL files performed better the smaller the bucket capacity ; very roughly , the six-record buckets were equivalent , while IBM two-record buckets performed as badly as the ICL fourteen-record buckets . |