Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , even without having to go so far as the Commission of the European Communities did at the hearing in arguing that registration itself already constitutes a form of establishment , it must be observed that in any event registration is a precondition for taking up and pursuing activities in the fisheries sector .
2 As John Hamilton said , ‘ It was imperative to estimate extremely accurately as the materials and labour had to be quantified in the original bid .
3 The result is that women typically become ‘ equal ’ by having to do more , to stretch themselves to work as hard as a man , even when experiencing bodily processes that a male has never experienced .
4 Here he would be forced to work as hard as the people among whom he lived .
5 Some day a Western team will be able to get sufficient funds to train as intensively as the Poles , who yet again took the first three places and the team prize .
6 It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs .
7 Ian and Vicki decide to explore as far as the next hill , leaving Barbara and the Doctor behind to sunbathe .
8 I 've often noticed it in men and I 've never known a woman to behave as weirdly as a man . ’
9 DALGETY , Delta and Jaguar were among the shares to march ahead yesterday as the stock market continued to fret and fuss about today 's West German interest rate decision .
10 For the investor , however , multiplicity creates opportunity , and the next Bookish Portfolio stands to prosper so long as the creative process is allowed to flower .
11 The absence of a major socialist bloc in North America left an unoccupied anti-pluralist niche into which elite theory began to fit as early as the 1930s .
12 Do research assistants count as academic persons ( and should they be entitled to publish as freely as the research directors who carry contractual responsibilities for their research activities ) ?
13 In retrospect , was leaving Lotus alone the wrong thing to do as far as the Elan was concerned ?
14 But for once it was the taking part that counted most and when you 've slept in the ruins of a fifties French post office , seen the New Year in with champers in the middle of a sand dune , coped with Idi Amin look-alike policemen and paid backstreet prices to backstreet petrol dealers , you 're going to have memories to last as long as the event .
15 The DIY element comes in when you find the sheet of self-adhesive stickers to label the blank keytops with ! It 's cheap , messy and unlikely to last as long as the legends painted on the original rubber ones .
16 This time he was determined to go as straight as an arrow aimed at Saint Sebastian to the core of the problem , as he saw it .
17 Australia and New Zealand even wanted to go as far as the international operation of aircraft on trunk routes .
18 Our aim was to go as far as the Wellenkuppe ( 3,903 metres ) , a beautiful mountain in its own right .
19 The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats .
20 She could n't help thinking that Cara , who had been known to take the car to go as far as the corner shop to pick up a bottle of milk , would have folded long before this .
21 Meanwhile government forces had consolidated their positions deep inside UNITA territory near Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base , which the government claimed to have captured in February following heavy fighting , and sought to penetrate as far as the rebel headquarters at Jamba .
22 Losing was one thing but to lose as spinelessly as the Welsh XV did to Bridgend on Saturday was to add insult to severely injured pride .
23 Ferdinando was already on his horse , which he was to ride as far as the station .
24 An interesting sidelight on battlefront conditions came from his remarks that the Peshmerga brought in for attention mainly tended to be suffering from wounds to their limbs from weapons such as Kalashnikovs , since those who sustained head or body injuries generally failed to get as far as a field hospital .
25 I have been confined almost a year by the dislocation of one of the ankle-bones of my leg , so have not been able to get as far as the Society House , but have enclosed the shilling you was so kind as to pay for a letter from Monsieur du Hamel .
26 By the time we worked it loose and got aboard again , Dennis 's initial fit had passed , but he was still adamant that he wanted to get as far as the Thames .
27 ‘ We 'd have been lucky to get as far as the Treshnish Isles , ’ said Ann .
28 Severus managed to get as far as the Montrose region and perhaps briefly beyond that : tantalizingly , in 1869 labourers on the Duke of Sutherland 's railway extension to Helmsdale and ultimately to Thurso in distant Caithness unearthed a collection of Roman bronze coins in a region never held and supposedly never reached by imperial forces .
29 Edgar managed to get as far as the door .
30 ‘ Theoretically , yes , but that 's unlikely to happen so long as the company is successful and the shareholders approve of the way it 's run . ’
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