Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] as [adv] [subord] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do appreciate the discount since CPRW is a charity and we try to make our funds go as far as possible . |
| 10 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 11 | The blue eyes appeared as hard as steel as her brown ones met them fleetingly . |
| 12 | She squeezed her eyes shut as tightly as possible . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Without using any money , some of the escapees got as far as North Wales , Yorkshire , and Scotland . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 .. |
| 18 | Some amateur associations went as far as legal prosecution to prevent any payment or pro fit being derived from the activities they controlled . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Scorton has entered both the Britain in Bloom and the Best Kept Village competitions and the Parish Council would be grateful if you could see your way to getting the verges trimmed as soon as possible . |
| 21 | There was some congestion along the coast , compounded by the bottlenecks at Connah 's Quay , where Down fast and slow lines converged as far as Muspratt 's Sidings , and again at Llandulas . |
| 22 | One way in which gender , ethnicity and class have been seen to fit together is as a consequence of capitalist social relations : women are exploited in the workplace because of the benefit that employers derive from this , and in the home because employers need to have a new generation of workers produced as cheaply as possible . |
| 23 | Elf clippers sailed as far as Nippon and Cathay in search of goods . |
| 24 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 25 | Would Poems came as naturally as Silk Thread . |
| 26 | Why , then , are pedigree dogs seen as frequently as mongrels in rescue homes ? |
| 27 | The phrase ‘ rehabilitation ’ denotes no more than the practice of helping individuals to function as well as they can in all areas of their daily life or , more simply , to be happier and more fulfilled people . |
| 28 | If this is followed , it should let bands progress as far as their creativity will allow . |
| 29 | There is even evidence to suggest that elephants existed as far as the Upper Euphrates basin as late as the first millennium B.C. Syrian ivory contributed to the supplies available to New Kingdom Egypt and at the same time provided the material for the flourishing school of ivory workers based on Tyre , the products of which enriched the civilizations of the east Mediterranean and Assyria . |
| 30 | She noticed his comfortable , well-cut tweeds , his brogues shining as brightly as horse chestnuts , which was appropriate , since his business was with trees and forestry . |