Example sentences of "[noun sg] about [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NCp7B , which lacks both zinc fingers but retains the three regions of basic amino acids , was found to bind to and protect DNAs from nuclease digestion about as efficiently as NCp7 while NCp7C showed a slightly reduced ability to protect the DNAs . |
| 2 | ‘ They still knock the ball about very well but like ourselves they do n't score as many goals as they should and their defence is n't as good as it should be either . |
| 3 | This is taking a sense of the particular about as far as you can go : man evolving as harmoniously with his landscape as the mayfly nymph evolved in harmony with its stream . |
| 4 | A supreme baseliner , he approached the net about as frequently as Michael Heseltine visits a coal mine . |
| 5 | Consequently , Wirral , along with a handful of other British urban communities , has during the 1980s been hit by heroin about as heavily as a community can . |