Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second line of argument is to see the picture painted so far as too static . |
| 2 | I 'll get it sorted out just as soon as I can . |
| 3 | Also , on many occasions , I have telephoned as late as 7.15pm only to hear ‘ today 's ’ forecast — at a cost of some 50–60p — but with no hint of when it will actually be updated with the outlook for tomorrow . |
| 4 | A Security Council vote to enforce its no-fly zone declaration had been expected as early as yesterday but it was postponed because of arduous negotiations over a final text , including the grace period before shoot-down or other orders could be issued . |
| 5 | While these difficult categorizations , either in their most serious and sustained forms , or in their commonly received popular forms , retain or attempt to retain their position above society — above the historical socio-material process or the full , undelimited cultural process — they have to be seen not only as intellectually unsatisfactory but as , in themselves , disguised social processes . |
| 6 | The poor , or " the mob or mere dregs of the people " as Henry Fox , father of Charles James , once called them , were seen not only as wholly unfit to rule , being ignorant and lacking the independence which property supposedly conferred , but even as a threat to the freedom for which England was internationally renowned . |
| 7 | Now artistic intention can be seen more clearly as just one of many often overlapping strands — ideological , economic , social , political — that make up the work of art , whether literary text , painting , or sculpture . |
| 8 | Fen had seen her angry before , but never so angry that she had lashed out physically as well as verbally . |
| 9 | It was unlikely that any English advance-parties would in fact have got thus far as yet , but they went prepared . |
| 10 | It had been used more recently as well , during the Darul Islam revolutionary uprisings of the 1960s , when the bodies of execution victims were flung into the cave . |
| 11 | It can be interpreted more narrowly as merely calling for an incidental adjustment in the form of an annotation of the present birth register . |
| 12 | The grade considered to be 3+ was stained as densely as simultaneously stained ( control ) submandibular tissue . |
| 13 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 14 | A middle-aged woman silently traced his movements on a large-scale map board ; there were photographs of the Yard and the Cloisters pinned up there as well . |
| 15 | The French settlements along the river St. Lawrence had no such attractions ; the peasant farmers who settled along the river were probably better off than if they had stayed at home , but they could not produce enough revenue to support the fairly lavish military , civil , and ecclesiastical establishment that had been set up there as well . |
| 16 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 17 | With the present London Philharmonic exceptionally alert , the skipping rhythms in compound time are sprung as infectiously as ever , nudging now rather than jabbing the listener . |
| 18 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 19 | The Council declared that the Church of Christ is to be found here , but it no longer says that it is not to be found anywhere else as well . |
| 20 | The British Property Federation ( BPF ) has gone as far as not only producing its own system for dealing with projects but , in liaison with the ACA ( Association of Consultant Architects ) , producing its own standard building contract to suit its system . |
| 21 | Sarah and Maureen were now close friends and spent a lot of time together , and now that Anne was at home , the friendship between her and Sarah was resumed as strongly as ever . |
| 22 | Valerie Cass had left rather petulantly as soon as she had finished her gin , and Malcolm Harris , breathing imprecations against Michael Banks , had gone soon after ( without of course , buying a round ) . |
| 23 | Well there 's kept we 've go keep and we 'll put kept on there as well as |
| 24 | But she knew that in the last resort if he did I would do it , but he 's , he 's paid off now as soon as he 'd paid off he went on the dole again |
| 25 | Presumably this act was meant to signify the unleashing of chaos , except that instead of being summarily tossed to the ground , the bookcase was lowered as gently as delicately as if it were a fragile ceramic from antiquity . |