Example sentences of "[vb infin] as [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger did not do as well as hoped in his ‘ A ’ levels , but will probably go to Birmingham to do a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 2 | When Le Roux bought Norton Motors in 1987 with shareholder and bank money , he knew there was a risk the profit might not flow as quickly as hoped . |
| 3 | The Company was pleased to accept , but things did not progress as smoothly as had been anticipated . |
| 4 | You know , very often when you go from one country to another you go through an area of re , what is called no man 's land , you come through from one frontier and then you 've got a distance and you come to the next frontier that does n't exist as far as accepting or rejecting Christ is concerned . |
| 5 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 6 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 7 | Over-optimism at the Treasury Through the summer , the signs of a slowdown in domestic demand had come reasonably on cue : the inflation figures duly peaked , retail sales tailed off , even labour costs did not accelerate as fast as feared . |
| 8 | I would go as far as to argue that , however well-intentioned and humanitarian the people who undertake a socialist revolution , the logic of their ideology , which is of necessity reflected in the institutions which they create , makes totalitarianism inevitable . |
| 9 | We have , therefore , to consider why marriages effectively end , as well as why couples will go as far as to go to the courts to legally separate , and what social factors underlie the responses to changes in legislation . |
| 10 | In fact , I would go as far as to say he 's a slob . |
| 11 | The list is endless and I would go as far as to say virtually every ‘ Gold Seal ’ is worth its weight in gold . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't go as far as to say that but I 'll admit you were in a rather nasty pickle . ’ |
| 13 | She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind . |
| 14 | ‘ In fact , I 'd go as far as to say you 've got the worst case of it I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 15 | It 's almost beyond belief that they should go as far as to kill three of our own men . ’ |
| 16 | That 's it , though he does n't go as far as refusing to let you see his picture . |
| 17 | ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ . |
| 18 | In Canada the Human Rights Act 1978 does not go as far as removing mandatory retirement ages ( although there is pressure growing to do so ) but does make it unlawful to deprive people of employment opportunities on grounds of age , as a result of policies or practices relating to recruitment promotion , training , or other personnel matters . |
| 19 | ‘ So you could n't go as far as saying who it might have been calling on the Rector at that late hour ? ’ |
| 20 | In theory this process could go as far as equating marginal cost with demand so that the bureaucracy obtains all the consumer surplus . |
| 21 | Did anyone get as far as buying a programme for the Villa game , or did n't they even go on sale ? |
| 22 | The final text substitutes waistcoat for frock-coat — ‘ I do n't think they 'll get as far as taking my waistcoat off ’ — even better for the pampered softy with his vein of oldwomanish guile . |
| 23 | ‘ If you want to sell and get as far as enticing a buyer , whoever it is will have the place surveyed , and any surveyor knowing his job will condemn it out of hand . |
| 24 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |