Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even beyond would be snowbound , perhaps right as far as the sea . |
| 2 | For ‘ the game ’ was one that everyone played , and that was all right so long as you took your losses without squealing . |
| 3 | ‘ Papa says it 's all right so long as there are other people around . ’ |
| 4 | But Miss Philimore seems to think she 's all right so long as she 's watched , and it would save me having to look for someone else . ’ |
| 5 | So that was all right as far as it went . |
| 6 | This was all right as far as it went . |
| 7 | As he told the story , probably with some exaggeration , Evelyn is supposed quite often to have gone out , perhaps only as far as his aunt 's house nearby to borrow some sugar , and to have failed to return . |
| 8 | Skilfully used , a fabric border can pull a room together just as effectively as swagging everything in sight with the same chintz . |
| 9 | Going much more slowly now as it records more conver conversations . |
| 10 | They will do so ever more loudly as the organ attempts to drown their noise . |
| 11 | So far as far as water sports are concerned I would make one reservation which is that there has to be some form of rationalization between competed sports which may conflict with each other and I am sure this can be achieved through the Sports Council machinery . |
| 12 | So as far back as 1974 it was spelt out by the industry itself . |
| 13 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |
| 14 | As one , the six typewriters began clacking again , not perhaps quite so loudly as their operators strained to hear the rest of the conversation . |
| 15 | In Gloucestershire the average man in the vale , situated between the Cotswold Edge and the river Severn , was half as much again better off as in the Forest of Dean across the river ( see Table 2.2 ) . |
| 16 | Some of these studies showed that the wheel-ruts caused by umbilical hose set-ups were only half as deep as those produced by the equivalent tanker-based equipment . |
| 17 | The recession has been only half as deep as the slump of 1979-81 , but it has now lasted ten quarters , against eight quarters then . |
| 18 | Government statistics out this week show that sales for ‘ mixed retail businesses ’ have grown only half as fast as sales for all retailers in the past three years . |
| 19 | This environment is far worse for lichen growth than any known in the Arctic and if we conservatively assume that the Antarctic lichens grow only half as quickly as those in the north , the former with a present diameter of 100 mm must be easily 10 000 years old and perhaps considerably older . |
| 20 | ‘ Affect ? ’ he threw back at her — most infuriatingly as far as she was concerned because she was positive that he knew full well this time the context in which she used the word . |
| 21 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 22 | Jason had never done anything overtly wrong as far as she was concerned until his outburst today . |
| 23 | In The Origin , and already as far back as The German Ideology , Marx and Engels followed their contemporaries in believing that the history of mankind usually went through the same sequence of technological improvement . |
| 24 | Morris typed throughout the morning , driving the carriage of the department 's battered portable along with his two hammering fingers just about as fast as it would go . |
| 25 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 26 | I do not think that anyone has ever seen a state wither away quite as fast as the Soviet state has in recent weeks . |
| 27 | The building was rectangular , generally twice as long as wide and had an apse at one or both ends . |
| 28 | Butler and Stokes " challenge any image of the elector as an informed spectator " , noting how " understanding of policy issues falls away very sharply indeed as we move outwards from those at the heart of political decision-making to the public at large " , and how attitudes are formed towards even the best-known policy issues to only a " limited degree " . |
| 29 | Well they , they had gone into the production of er steel er turning er in such a way that er they looked for the best possible tools er in order , one , that they could produce the item more cheaply as far as the employing class is concerned , they want to produce it as cheap as they can and probably sell it the dearest . |
| 30 | Driving once more as fast as she dared , she soon reached the pet shop and saw that Mr Miller was occupied with a customer . |