Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were known to our predecessors at the time and were expounded by them as clearly then as we can demonstrate them now ; for the reasons were implicit in the facts of the world in 1900 . |
| 2 | For your professional purposes , and mine as a politician , we have to keep them as far apart as we can — providing of course that my analysis is sound . |
| 3 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 4 | It is odd , and neatly illustrative of the contradiction in Spartan attitudes , that Herodotus can say of the Spartan-led Greeks in the same period that Samos ‘ seemed to them as far away as the Rock of Gibraltar ’ , while telling elsewhere in his book of a Spartan , son of Archias , who was called Samios because of his father 's Samian links ( viii . |
| 5 | A number of teachers had been sent away from our area , too ; some off them as far away as Naples . |
| 6 | The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 . |
| 7 | Ah , was it as long ago as that ? |
| 8 | What you need to do is to involve people so they know what has to be done and plan it as far ahead as possible to minimise the impact . |
| 9 | Erm the large size is really a relatively it it 's a smaller percentage of the market so we 've had to price it as far down as we can that 's why our contribution for the large size is not as large as the Erm the overhead the sorry the capital costs erm will be a total of two hundred and ninety thousand which is two hundred for factory extensions , eighty thousand for plant and ten perc ten thousand for the gasser . |
| 10 | The thing is that I want to keep the distance between us as far apart as possible . |
| 11 | If , however , we take The Politics ofthe Developing Areas as a classic of functionalist politics , we find that the statements on bureaucracy in the area studies presented there do not take us as far forward as the theoretical scheme promises . |
| 12 | ‘ My mother 's knitted for all of us as far back as I can remember , but she acknowledged defeat on this one . ’ |