Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a service could act not only as a mediator between users and official agencies , but also deal with those aspects of heroin use that these agencies are unable or unwilling to resolve . |
| 2 | However , the technology is moving very fast and , as pen computers come into common usage , prices will fall as dramatically as the prices of conventional computers have over the last couple of years . |
| 3 | If the language is slang , what does it matter so long as the preachers are radiant with the experience they speak of , and live in the midst of the same social situation , with all its problems and difficulties , as the listeners ? |
| 4 | When Lothar himself crossed the Meuse , probably late in September , and announced that he would advance as far as the Seine , Charles 's support in Francia collapsed . |
| 5 | If she chose , she could speak as gracefully as a courtier , as deviously as a diplomat . |
| 6 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 7 | ‘ In the day , ’ said Barbara Coleman , ‘ I can see as far as the Esterel … |
| 8 | The letter O , for instance , does not occur very often as the final letter in a four letter word , but is common as the second letter . |
| 9 | It becomes a bonfire in autumn , but strangely does not burn so brightly as the green-leafed type distinguished as viridis . |
| 10 | In Normandy , the settlers could sleep more soundly as the theatre of active war moved south . |
| 11 | The Economist has argued that the council is indeed a senate and ought to debate and vote as openly as a senate . |
| 12 | He joked to Philippa that he might react as badly as the sting victim on the TV show two weeks earlier . |
| 13 | Such individuals will then continue to breed , and the numbers will not sink as rapidly as the population controllers would like . |
| 14 | Blanche let the question drop as softly as a feather . |
| 15 | You know fair enough , some of the older men ca n't move as fast as a eighteen year old , but on the other hand it 's what they got in their head that counts . |
| 16 | Even in wellingtons , he could move as lightly as a squirrel . |
| 17 | It would n't exist as far as the programmer was concerned . |
| 18 | ( 4 ) The general rule does not apply so far as a provision of the consolidating Acts gives effect to an amendment ( in pursuance of a recommendation of the Law Commission and , in some cases , the Scottish Law Commission ) . |
| 19 | It may take as long as a week for all the caterpillars to make their chrysalises . |
| 20 | I have walked it in a day , but it can take as long as a week to complete . |
| 21 | Unless sent by an air courier , an ocean bill of lading can take as long as a week to arrive by air mail . |
| 22 | It may take as long as an hour to return to port . |
| 23 | If animals ca n't adapt to change then they will die out just as the dinosaurs did . |
| 24 | Where a listed company promotes an on-market " buy-in " of its shares , where the shareholders usually sell to an intermediary and the intermediary sells back to the company , the capital gains tax rules , rather than the ACT/distribution regime , will also apply as far as the vendor shareholders are concerned . |
| 25 | ( The mundane truth was that the delivery boy had forgotten it , but the correction did not circulate as efficiently as the rumour . ) |
| 26 | It can develop as fast as a Charolais if fed appropriately and under ideal circumstances it can achieve similar weights within the same time span , especially if breeders are selective in their choice of stock . |
| 27 | I saw him depart as peacefully as a sleeping infant . |
| 28 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 29 | Indeed it seems that girls very quickly replaced boys at this task : " Evidently [ the boys " ] tongues do not go so glibly as the girls , " as the STC was already saying as early as 1875 , " for in most of the offices where girls are employed , reading boys are now unknown . " |
| 30 | The third method Engels accepted from Morgan concerned the idea that , although systems of kinship terms were first moulded by systems of marriage , the kin terms did not change as easily as the system of marriage . |