Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 31 | These attain elevations in excess of 3000m and much of this uplift has probably occurred as recently as the Late Quaternary . |
| 32 | Having got as far as the inverted stage , the easiest answer is to pull the stick back and perform a ha If loop to recover ( again , that 's why you needed lots of height ) . |
| 33 | After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name . |
| 34 | Negotiations were conducted in great secrecy when the manuscripts had already got as far as the freeport in Zurich and were being examined by two well backed dealers and by representatives of the Getty Museum . |
| 35 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 36 | The otter was the only strictly European species to make it into the overall ‘ Top 10 ’ , though badger , fox and hedgehog all got as far as the top 20 . |
| 37 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 38 | But we can not be certain that Gould even got as far as the river at all . |
| 39 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 40 | erm well it does n't necessary apply that the agent is suing the name , the question is whether , what any right the agent has got , er the fact of the matter is as I understand it and tell me if I 'm wrong , that your client has erm received a demand under clause nine er , er which he has failed to comply , I think that must follow because er if he had complied with it , then that would never of got as far as the central fund |
| 41 | I have n't actually been in to , I 've only ever got as far as the . |
| 42 | The units are expendable and can easily be replaced so long as the tree is healthy . |
| 43 | In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species . |
| 44 | The new paradigm must pass critical tests to survive , but it is born as spontaneously as the metaphors of a poet : |
| 45 | While the problem was recognised as early as the 1930s , when institutions and regulations were created to combat it , these have been either ignored altogether or simply not enforced . |
| 46 | And when the CEGB 's geologists were sent out to look at the geological substrata , they were harassed as heavily as the waste dumpers had been . |
| 47 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 48 | Apart from the Ukrainophile Kirillo-Methodian Society , which the regime thought particularly dangerous because of its obsessive concern for the unity of the empire , no circle of intellectuals was treated as harshly as the Petrashevtsy in the period between 1826 and 1848 . |
| 49 | Every town and village , and most large estates , had natural or man-made ponds on which matches were arranged as often as the weather allowed . |
| 50 | But his appeal to the IRA leadership to call a halt to its bloody campaign is likely to be dismissed as promptly as the Loyalists yesterday rejected calls to lay down their arms . |
| 51 | EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada . |
| 52 | Words which appear early in the lists were remembered more easily as the subjects had more opportunity to rehearse these after being read than the rest of the words in the list . |
| 53 | The majority of house-holds used ceramic sauce-boats , which had been introduced as early as the 1740s . |
| 54 | References to the delírio , the madness of hunger , can be found as early as the sixteenth century in the writings of Portuguese navigators , and it is a recurring theme in Brazilian literature right up to the present day . |
| 55 | Tomb finds suggest that this quality was appreciated as early as the Shang dynasty . |
| 56 | Combined with the federal structure of Germany this means that services are de-centralized as far as the political and administrative levels of national state ( Bundesstaat ) , federal state ( Land ) , district ( Kreis ) and local authority are concerned and additionally dispersed over an almost indescribable multiplicity of semi- and non-statutory organizations . |
| 57 | Unless Mr Kravchuk — who likes to be seen holding the spiky bulava ( mace ) , the symbol of Ukraine 's bygone Cossack leaders — puts his vanity aside , he could end up being judged as harshly as the most famous Cossack , Bohdan Khmelnytsky . |
| 58 | A striking one came in 1760 when , at the marriage of the Princess of Brazil , the daughter of King Joseph I , the masterful Portuguese chief minister , the marques de Pombal , announced that though the papal nuncio and the imperial ambassador would take precedence over all other foreign envoys this would be governed so far as the rest of them were concerned simply by the dates on which they had presented their credentials . |
| 59 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 60 | And big brewers Scottish & Newcastle chairman Sir Alick Rankin reckons the north will soon be hit as hard as the south . |