Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 5 | ‘ In the day , ’ said Barbara Coleman , ‘ I can see as far as the Esterel … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It becomes a bonfire in autumn , but strangely does not burn so brightly as the green-leafed type distinguished as viridis . |
| 8 | In Normandy , the settlers could sleep more soundly as the theatre of active war moved south . |
| 9 | He joked to Philippa that he might react as badly as the sting victim on the TV show two weeks earlier . |
| 10 | Such individuals will then continue to breed , and the numbers will not sink as rapidly as the population controllers would like . |
| 11 | It would n't exist as far as the programmer was concerned . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( The mundane truth was that the delivery boy had forgotten it , but the correction did not circulate as efficiently as the rumour . ) |
| 14 | 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 . " |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Whatever the answer , do not fall into the trap of imagining that the impact of a flood in one of this year 's drought-ridden rivers will pass as quickly as the time it takes for the river to ‘ look ’ normal again . |
| 17 | The light of the lamp did not reach as far as the high ceiling , and the fire had burned low . |
| 18 | We shall instead suggest ( 40 ) , where the fact that the arrowhead passes through the square bracket is intended to show that the minor property does not simply qualify the entity as a whole , but the fact that it does not reach as far as the round bracket shows that the adjective is not a sense-qualifier : ( 40 ) |
| 19 | I could n't even walk as fast as the kids , and standing for more than five minutes was impossible . |
| 20 | Even from the beginning she had lain naked and adoring under the moon and Fenna could come and go as easily as the clouds did . |
| 21 | The party could only go as far as the unions would allow and their influence was apparent at all levels . |
| 22 | The indecent assaults did not go as far as the rapes but were ‘ equally repulsive ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'll go as far as the village , ’ Sharpe said . |
| 24 | That 's right , but it does n't go as far as the Glen , |
| 25 | And you could only go as far as the money would go , could n't you ? |
| 26 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |
| 27 | John d'Ancona , who has been OSO 's director-general for 12 years , doubts if it will go as far as the creation of a series of OSO clones operating under the DTI umbrella to deal with specific industrial sectors . |
| 28 | This was in itself , however , of little significance in an atmosphere impregnated with tension , and anxiety that the western offensive could not conceivably go as smoothly as the Polish and Scandinavian campaigns . |
| 29 | In her affidavit Miss Heal set out , pursuant to the provisions of article 8 ( f ) of the Convention , the circumstances which she said would obtain so far as the mother is concerned if she and the child were to be returned to Ontario . |
| 30 | " Wo n't you come as far as the boat ? " |