Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as does increase and the organic composition of capital is not increasing rapidly , it will represent future consumption by productive workers , but will still be considered as a part of the surplus-value . |
| 2 | All this is , of course , true for others beside old people , and it is no part of the argument to categorise old people so separately as to further stigmatise them . |
| 3 | The implication of the argument is that 1823–4 , so far as petitioning to gain mass support was concerned , should be seen primarily as a new start in many places . |
| 4 | So far as getting to know her was concerned , it was apparent that Lieutenant Lapointe had achieved a start on him . |
| 5 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 6 | In many cases local authorities have taken the initial steps and some have gone so far as to form housing associations for the specific purpose of transfer . |
| 7 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
| 8 | Two went so far as to offer to reduce the metered fare after having taken a wrong turn in error . |
| 9 | However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality . |
| 10 | He had left home so hurriedly as to have packed not one of the poetry volumes that he was very seldom without . |
| 11 | This is why changing the voice of the verb in 9a from active to passive — which has the effect of interchanging the valency slots that the noun phrases occupy — removes the anomaly as effectively as replacing see or table . |
| 12 | You also ca n't help noticing that attempts to drag the Royal Family into the 20th Century have failed as badly as attempts to do the same for this other great British anachronism . |
| 13 | It also criticized the manufacturers and contractors for lax planning and supervision of the project , the first aircraft having taken nearly twice as long as planned to build . |
| 14 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 15 | We are now just as determined to move upwards as a university at the forefront of high quality research , contributing to knowledge and understanding relevant to the needs of society . |
| 16 | So it 's not a lot of lot of bother the only thing is that i you got ta drive in town rather than drive on country lanes to get to the main roads little bit more dangerous as far as getting caught is concerned ha ! |
| 17 | That 's it , though he does n't go as far as refusing to let you see his picture . |
| 18 | At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas . |
| 19 | They went as far as offering to pay him a retainer on top of his rep salary for two years . |
| 20 | As far as examining goes , or marking essays , I assume that most of my colleagues take the sort of line that I do , that what we 're looking for is not a particular interpretation of something , but an ability to get to grips with texts , to produce an argument that 's logical , coherent , well-written and is supported from the texts . |
| 21 | When workload and revenue have been predicted as accurately as needed to meet objectives , all costs associated with projects must be defined . |
| 22 | Total repression of conflict leads to anarchy just as surely as does total conflict' ( ibid. xii ) . |
| 23 | This chess game works on all graphics boards and the pieces are drawn well so as to avoid straining the eye . |
| 24 | The southern States stand out very strongly as having experienced a Democratic hegemony then , as they did for the entire century beforehand . |