Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 2 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 3 | The first split occurred as early as 1948 when Yugoslavia was denounced by the Soviet Union and its allies for supposedly giving too much favour to peasants at the expense of the working class and for exercising party authority in an insufficiently decisive manner . |
| 4 | I was buried alive , the pummelling stopped as suddenly as it had started , I heaved myself up and the earth and muck fell off me . |
| 5 | It is not perhaps generally realised that this practice began as early as the late seventeenth century and that many of the splendid coloured aquatint books of the nineteenth century first reached the public in this way . |
| 6 | After the unveiling ceremony a special train hauled by No 2 The Countess went as far as Castle Caereinion before returning to Raven Square . |
| 7 | It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | According to the mid-year estimates the ‘ remoter , largely rural districts ’ experienced their highest rates of net immigration between 1971 and 1974 , while at the other end of the national urban hierarchy London 's rate of net migration loss peaked as early as 1970/71 ( Champion , 1981b ; Britton , 1986 ) . |
| 10 | The bows of the boat rocked as gently as a baby 's cradle . |
| 11 | The fence stretched as far as she could see and , above it , waved the brown tops of trees . |
| 12 | In this way men continue to have remarkably cheap servants and capitalist industry and the state to have the labour force reproduced as cheaply as possible . |
| 13 | The proposal got as far as a White Paper which suggested a two-tier system — life peers with voting rights and other members who could take part in debate but not vote . |
| 14 | In 1383 , the proposal got as far as a draft . |
| 15 | And the vehicle got as far as Hucknall Marketplace , er and that was it . |
| 16 | The committee met as often as necessary ( at least monthly ) up to the start of industrial action , but at critical stages more regularly , and against a background of considerable informal consultation . |
| 17 | His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun . |
| 18 | She swayed towards him , wanting to feel his skin against hers , but his mood changed as swiftly as the wind and he pulled the gown round her roughly , his eyes as cold as stones . |
| 19 | ‘ The measure as revised by the committee tried as hard as possible to accommodate the views of those who object to women priests . |
| 20 | His exalted mood faded as swiftly as his dream . |
| 21 | Here the air was clear and light , and the river Froom rushed as fast as the shadow of a cloud . |
| 22 | Once Baldwin 's decision was made , the right-wing plot collapsed as suddenly as it had grown up and , as always after prolonged but successful mental strain , he felt free . |
| 23 | His interview with Law went as badly as it is easily possible to imagine . |
| 24 | After the 1987 hurricane , the Tree Council went as far as to say that ‘ unless positive encouragement is given to owners to restore these woods … they will revert to scrub and never recover . ’ |
| 25 | Fish never sleep , you see , so if this one does , then that 's half the battle won as far as friend Polgar is concerned . ’ |
| 26 | The Chinese democracy movement also demolished , though too briefly , the barrier of orientalising misperception which for so much of the European Left as well as for the ruling establishments has consigned China into the category of the separate and different . |
| 27 | Her ordeal ended as strangely as it began and without any apparent reason . |
| 28 | The mood spread as far as non-separatist feminist campaigns around disciplines like psychology . |
| 29 | Craig 's is an untypically simple case inasmuch as his surplus arose as early as the second count and was disposed of in the third . |
| 30 | In hepatectomized rats , DNA synthesis begins at 14h but can be inhibited by an α 1 -adrenergic inhibitor applied as late as 11h after partial hepatectomy . |