Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] as [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which we can be sure , or think we can be sure , of biological connection is always very narrow ; but sociological kinship , which depends only on our willingness to slot individuals into particular verbal categories , can be extended as far as we like , or rather as far as local convention requires , and that may be thousands of miles and include many thousands of individuals . |
| 2 | So they can expect to live more or less as long as any , as , as , as any woman does . |
| 3 | Almost the most enjoyable thing of all is Lewis 's ability to find traces of the ‘ old world ’ — beliefs which go back to Isadore of Seville or Macrobius or even as far as Plato — surviving in the pages of Fielding , Johnson or Wordsworth . |
| 4 | However , while the nature of the effect of feedback on gain is similar for each circuit arrangement , occurrence of a decreased or increased gain simply depending on whether the feedback is negative or positive , the character of the effect of feedback on the input and output impedance depends on whether the relevant circuit connection is series or parallel as well as on whether the feedback is negative or positive . |
| 5 | Rothbury ceased to be clerk of the council when he was appointed a justice of the court of King 's Bench in 1295 , but he remained clerk of Parliament till at least 1307 and perhaps as late as 1314 . |
| 6 | For the individualist , the central task is to understand individuals as agents , and thus as far as possible to understand the social world as the outcome of options and choices taken and made by particular actors . |
| 7 | His car was likened to a bullet … and just as effectively as a bullet he killed five people . |
| 8 | The apparent extension of the effects of the collision of the Indian and Eurasian Plates to much of central and eastern Asia , and possibly as far as the Baikal Rift ( Fig. 3.21 ) , in fact indicates that the consequences of plate interaction need not necessarily be confined to plate margins . |
| 9 | Commerce was the raison d'être of the Old Town and possibly as early as the 10C it embraced a huge mix of nationalities . |
| 10 | It had come half way up the bunk , and nearly as far as Willis 's blankets . |
| 11 | Play the harlot ( 1 ) : they did so literally and also as far as religion was concerned . |
| 12 | When they were ready , send a messenger back to bring over the remainder , who would endeavour to ride on and past as silently as possible and form the barrier between town and castle . |
| 13 | Er we could you let us have a letter to that effect , address it to the panel secretary and really as soon as possible . |
| 14 | I want at the end erm , Chairman to give you my views of what is meant by er , an integrated and balanced community because I think that 's that 's quite important , but before I do that , I 'd like to mop up one or two er points right at the end in response to some of the contributions that have been made , and I 'll deal with them , Wincup , Curtis , Brook , er and Thomas , if that 's acceptable er to you , and really as far as Mr Wincup is concerned , he 's quite properly raised the issue of procedural issues about how the Greater York authorities is going to address moving towards er an agreed location , and quite clearly I 've got to reaffirm again that the County Council will want to look at both the greenbelt local plan report and your panel report before er it moves erm er forward or looks at any conclusions it may be moving to in the light of those er in the light of those reports , and quite clearly , as we all know , there are a number of options . |
| 15 | Tutorial Classes were firmly in the university sector and some LEAs were arranging classes which hitherto had been the preserve of the WEA , e.g. civics and esperanto , and even as early as 1936 , the number was relatively substantial ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
| 16 | After 1638 nearly two-thirds of the Somerset Levels were still unreclaimed , and even as late as 1769 , the local drainage agent , Richard Locke , was stoned , and his effigy was burned ‘ by the owners of geese ’ . |
| 17 | The Tyneside Shorthorns were very similar to the Ayrshire in 1790 and even as late as 1887 there was a Dutch breed in Drenthe which looked exactly like the Ayrshire of the time . |
| 18 | Richard Fynes noted that : ‘ The men were sufficiently endowed with natural interest to be observant of the effect of wind upon the ventilation of the mines , and even as late as 1822 , before barometers and thermometers were generally used in the pits to indicate the state of the temperature , if the wind were blowing from the southeast threatening rain , the men refused to work . ’ |
| 19 | Yet of those lines only 10 actually crossed the border into Russian Poland , and even as late as 1918 there was no direct railway link between Poznán and Warsaw . |
| 20 | Twenty-two years earlier , in 1894 , and even as late as the spring of 1911 , the situation could hardly have seemed less promising . |
| 21 | I began to use the mornings of those days when I was on evening watch for these little excursions , and covered quite a bit of territory — Leighton Buzzard , High Wycombe , Buckingham , Dunstable , Newport Pagnell , Woburn , Banbury , Northampton , Aylesbury , Bedford , and even as far as Whipsnade and the Chiltern Hills . |
| 22 | She nagged him northwards to the Peace River district , to establish garages there , and even as far as Fort McMurray , with instructions to buy land for future service stations . |
| 23 | ‘ We have enthusiasts travelling from America , France and even as far as Australia , ’ said local association member Robert Lamrock from Belfast . |
| 24 | I want you fit and well as quickly as possible . ’ |
| 25 | The little bird was flying busily backwards and forwards as fast as he could , carrying pieces of dry grass . |
| 26 | She would not visit her own family , except as a formality , and then as briefly as decency permitted . |
| 27 | In TDC the classification status of all prisoners is reviewed at least once a year , and sometimes as often as every ninety days . |
| 28 | And yet as far as many practitioners were concerned it was revolutionary . |
| 29 | Within the guilds , food resources are partitioned spatially and temporally as well as by size and quality . |
| 30 | It 's all right and tight as far as I 'm concerned . |