Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun pl] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But surely we ca n't need reinforcements as desperately as all that , ’ Woodruffe said . |
| 2 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
| 3 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 4 | Viability , similarly , will no longer serve as a moral cutoff point : sophisticated life-support systems can now sustain fetuses as early as 20 weeks and even that limit is being pushed further and further back towards conception . |
| 5 | In everyday speech , we do not pronounce words as clearly as we do when we are asked to say them in isolation . |
| 6 | Since recessive threats to the money markets occurred in the ‘ big bangs ’ of the 1980s , the enterprise culture has shown it can remove jobs as quickly as it creates them . |
| 7 | Large-scale commercialised farming , that is agribusiness and domestic agricultural enterprises , have to compete with other big corporations for investment capital and markets and must therefore make profits as efficiently as possible . |
| 8 | For instance , one could not say that the nervous system had simply slowed down , as on occasion the subjects could produce responses as quickly as they could when rested . |
| 9 | Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness . |
| 10 | Some of the regulations from Brussels would destroy jobs as surely as the policies of the Labour party would if they were ever to be followed . |
| 11 | Personnel departments will inform employees as soon as possible of the venue in the Group . |
| 12 | Linked together , they can crunch numbers as fast as any mainframe , but at a fraction of the cost . |
| 13 | Only in the last ten or so years has it been realized that infection can be spread quite easily by these practices and may pose problems as far as treatment is concerned . |
| 14 | IT systems that can solve problems as effectively as experts , can learn by analogy or by pattern recognition and those that can understand natural languages , such as English , are known by the collective name of artificial intelligence systems , or AI systems . |
| 15 | She could invent hypotheses as often as she sipped her tepid coffee . |
| 16 | ‘ Hang without mercy , hang like fun , ’ recommended Mr Punch , ‘ and you will check Garotters as effectually as Sepoys . ’ |
| 17 | Signed by representatives of the rail companies , the Ministry of Law and Order , the ANC , the transport workers ' trade union and various community organizations , it included an agreement that the police would redeploy personnel as soon as possible to cover the train network ; working groups were established to investigate issues such as the installation of closed-circuit cameras in train coaches and the implementation of screening systems at stations . |