Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [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 | Brown and McCormick 's skuas and Wilson 's petrels fly as far as temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere . |
| 3 | Turkle ( 1984 ) , for example , analyses how computers provide female-as well as male-identified cognitive experiences . |
| 4 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 5 | She squeezed her eyes shut as tightly as possible . |
| 6 | Words come in only as convenient for purposes of illustration . |
| 7 | Some bisexual relationships work perfectly well as long as everyone knows the score . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The propagandists go so far as to assume , even to assert , that it would not result in any splitting of the party vote : in other words that votes transferred from Dandy or Deadman or Doughty would go to another of these three running-mates and not elsewhere . |
| 10 | She thought that she never wanted to sleep with Jim again , that the bonds of love were snares and that she must at all costs leave as early as possible the next morning and never come back . |
| 11 | Expenditure costs rise very steeply as the ambient concentration approaches zero . |
| 12 | The likelihood is that such spare syntactic structures appear very infrequently as independent forms in actual use . |
| 13 | Up until the final minutes the jokes fly as fast as sniper 's bullets . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the jagged beams and stepped curves print out exactly as they appear on screen . |
| 15 | In this case too , by maximizing their caring role , males ensure as far as possible that their young are ‘ got off ’ successfully . |
| 16 | And I want the explosives set as soon as possible . |
| 17 | The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts . |
| 18 | In summertime trains run as often as every ten minutes taking holiday-makers through to the popular resort . |
| 19 | Some interpretations of modern astrophysics go so far as to suggest that a conscious observer is necessary for the physical universe to exist at all — the observed needs an observer . |
| 20 | Some biologists go so far as to see DNA as a device used by organisms to reproduce themselves , just as an eye is a device used by organisms to see ! |
| 21 | Snooker players clash not just as players but as personalities with their own quirks , style , and personal feuds — Alex Higgins ‘ The Hurricane ’ or Jimmy White ‘ The Tooting Tearaway ’ set against the inscrutable , trance-like calmness of Steve Davis or Cliff Thorburn , or the bantering and benign Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne ; all the ‘ lads ’ are part of an immensely lucrative media ‘ hype ’ carefully planned by a professional promoter-cum-accountant . |
| 22 | This distinction applies to the things that men make as well as to the actions which men perform . |
| 23 | Few infant mammals grow as quickly as an elephant seal pup . |
| 24 | Our hospitals are so short of cash thanks to the shortsightedness of the Government that it 's a wonder hospitals function as well as they do . |
| 25 | The men talk as cheerfully as ever ; jests are bandied about freely ; but to me the cheer is sombre and jests are ghastly . ’ |
| 26 | The little manor-house at Cadhay stands near at hand in the Ottery meadows , and more distant views reach as far as the great hill-fort at Hembury , built on a commanding spur of land in the late Iron Age . |
| 27 | Some of these documents remain not only as important records of passed time but as superb images in their own right . |
| 28 | Once again , the wisecracks fly as fast as the bullets — and are just as deadly . |
| 29 | The gags fly as fast as the bullets . |
| 30 | That is why so many ‘ start up ’ schemes finish as early as they do . |