Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was completely satisfied with the explanation ; the lawsuit was to be discontinued as far as he himself was concerned , and he had written to Mr. Jennings asking him to withdraw as well . |
| 2 | If she meant to make us nervous , she 's succeeded as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 3 | He had kissed and fondled her and she had responded as well as she could but they had both been too aware of each others inexperience and uncertainty to achieve fulfilment . |
| 4 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 5 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 6 | It had been forgotten as quickly as it had begun . |
| 7 | The latter had vanished as punctually as he had appeared . |
| 8 | The expression of good-humoured contempt had vanished as quickly as it had appeared , and suddenly Rostov realised that he had missed an opportunity to relax the tension which existed between them . |
| 9 | With the October 1987 stockmarket crash and , now , a British recession , these revenues have vanished as capriciously as they arrived . |
| 10 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 11 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 12 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 13 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
| 14 | They , you , are our inspiration , the reason we 've come as far and done as well as we have , the energy that drives us forward into the future . |
| 15 | Often he is afraid that these jobs will not be done , or not done as well as he would do them . |
| 16 | But nothing was done as far as we know . |
| 17 | And you need done as far as I 'm concerned ! |
| 18 | But the damage was done as far as my faith was concerned , which is probably why I went mad . |
| 19 | The sparrow was n't too badly injured as far as I could tell , but it was obviously in a state of shock and could n't fly . |
| 20 | It was , however , of great importance that it was said as clearly as it was by the Council . |
| 21 | She thought of the dark corner in the kitchen garden where discarded violets grew , pallid , but obstinately scented as strongly as their pampered descendants , grown in glassed-over frames and raised on beds of leaf-mould . |
| 22 | Indeed , that term is no longer used as confidently as it once was . |
| 23 | whether the present legal powers in the 1983 Mental Health Act are being used as effectively as they can be , and what action could be taken in advance of any new legislation to ensure that they are . |
| 24 | The Tender is the defenders ' finest weapon , and is not used as often as it should be . |
| 25 | As I 've described it above , the process differs from modern multi-track technique , because the ‘ backing track ’ went through a number of generations , while modern multi-track tape recorders keep each layer separate ; so the technique was n't used as fully as it might have been , because the quality dropped each time . |
| 26 | Moulds do not usually grow fast , and conditions had to be found in which large quantities of Penicillium notatum could be produced as quickly as they were wanted . |
| 27 | Because in it , through a slit in the curtains which had been drawn as incompetently as everything else about the house had been done , a heavy man could be seen , in winceyette pyjamas , red-faced and gesturing angrily . |
| 28 | The new school is drawn as irresistibly as its predecessors to the great central mystery about Mary , her involvement in the murder of Darnley . |
| 29 | If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia . |
| 30 | Yes , and we at the university are , I think , really I say ‘ I think ’ , my own purpose here at the university is to export what we 've got as quickly as we can to the local community , and indeed nationally too . |