Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dance music is both fiery and resilient , and the mystic landscape of the famous epilogue so tantalisingly evoked that value judgements fade away as surely as the music 's vision itself . |
| 2 | The question facing women 's studies today is the extent to which she has , in the last decade , matured into the dutiful daughter of the white patriarchal university — a daughter who threw tantrums and played the tomboy when she was younger , but who has now learned to wear a dress and speak and act almost as nicely as Daddy wants her to . |
| 3 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ Teams fighting against relegation sometimes scrap just as hard as teams challenging for promotion . |
| 4 | This distaste for the subject of money should also guide his behaviour if another gentleman was impudent enough to enquire about his income : ‘ [ In such a situation the mirza ] should try to get the topic changed ; if not he should leave the house to its owner and run away as fast as his feet can carry him . |
| 5 | Yet life is a dream-metaphor , which we create just as surely as we create our dreams — and our Higher Self will often communicate through ‘ mundane ’ everyday events . |
| 6 | I am terrified and run home as fast as I can . |
| 7 | He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 8 | As shown in Figure 2 , the CEO sets strategic goals that look ahead as far as 25 years and manages executive vice-presidents ( EVPs ) with responsibility for 12- to 15-year development programs . |
| 9 | It is also likely that the ads for the more expensive and unusual products will be of greater general interest than those for the cheap day-to-day items : it is quite tempting to study in detail an ad for an expensive car , or browse through the ‘ houses for sale ’ columns , even if you aspire only as far as a second-hand Escort and have no intention of moving house within the next 10 years . |
| 10 | Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing . |
| 11 | As with most young men who had succeeded in sowing casual wild oats , it was a case of get away as fast as you can before they start getting ideas . |
| 12 | I mean , they know just as well as disabled people what is usually understood in terms of the professional — client relationship . |
| 13 | Get home as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | Their result is the first I look for every week , and I get home as often as I can . |
| 15 | I think the inde independent corroboration for actuaries was another important factor , custody confirmation by the auditors , veto of transfer of assets , independent auditors for pension funds , independent custodian arrangements , in-house investment management , you made some comments , co-ordination of the various regulators , co-ordination of the professional advisers , establishment of the Pension Tribunal , you know now as far as I was concerned on on my sort of looking through it , those were all recommendations that that you have made over your two years and I could n't really find any response to those in Good , and I think that 's er you know we we personally found that disappointing . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , it 's been an awful , terrible accident , but we 've now got to concentrate on making sure that Liz and Owen get well as quickly as possible . |
| 17 | The patrols pass here as regularly as always . |
| 18 | They grow and feed just as well as carp fed on a much higher protein diet , only it does not cost as much . |
| 19 | Slowly lean forwards as far as you can without straining . |
| 20 | Slowly lean forwards as far as possible without straining . |
| 21 | Stretch arms up high , then slowly lean forwards as far as you can without straining . |
| 22 | Stretch arms up high , then slowly lean forwards as far as you can without straining . |
| 23 | Stretch arms up high , then slowly lean forwards as far as you can without straining . |
| 24 | With one leg extended forwards and the other leg bent , stretch arms up high , then slowly lean forwards as far as possible without straining . |
| 25 | With one leg extended forward and the other leg bent , stretch arms up high , then slowly lean forwards as far as you can without straining . |
| 26 | So we see the difficulties of defining even a recent period of earth history , and the protagonists of the varied viewpoints would probably ( if it mattered at all ) argue just as fiercely as stratigraphers over the boundaries . |
| 27 | Few , however , go quite as far as Dickens , who is apt to bum great houses down . |
| 28 | If you go twice as fast as something else , and you started out at the same instant from the same spot , you 'd go twice as far — which is what you found . |
| 29 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
| 30 | Many workers in Britain have argued in favour of special family courts for divorcing families , and for divorce conciliation services , to help couples who wish to separate do so as amicably as possible ( see for example , Parkinson , 1982 ) . |