Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Farthingdales are struggling as hard as Chester 's in the current market .
2 Quite stiff for the grade , with several moves that leave you wondering if you are climbing as well as you thought !
3 In seeking ways in which planning procedures could be made more efficient , the committee noted that ‘ not all authorities are operating as efficiently as they might ’ and the greatest scope for improvement lay in assisting all authorities to reach the standard set by the best .
4 Okay well we 're waiting as far as I know for the money to come
5 When you go arter a job like that , if you 're doing as fast as what the machine will take it to do it properly , you ca n't force it .
6 I think they 're doing as well as can be expected .
7 Whether you want to or not , you 're leaving here just as soon as it can be arranged .
8 An executive said : ‘ We 're trying as far as we can to ensure that our business operates normally .
9 They are going as far as Collie .
10 The two eldest kids are doing as well as they can and are bearing up as best as can be expected , ’ she said ‘ But my youngest boy has n't left my side since it happened .
11 Since then I have realised that the best way of avoiding publicity is to proclaim everything you are doing as loudly as possible .
12 And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good .
13 ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can , ’ cried Endill .
14 ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can . ’
15 ‘ I 'm waiting as patiently as I can but it 's getting a pain now .
16 That but anyway that does n't ha hang on that that does n't approve what you 're saying , what I 'm saying as far as English is concerned that 's assessed underneath the attainment target writing
17 Christ almighty I 'm trying as hard as I can !
18 I always seem to get the wrong results even though I 'm working as hard as possible .
19 ‘ Well , considering I 'm working as hard as I am with all the stress involved , I think I 'm probably very fit . ’
20 It does n't matter how few clubbers are fighting so long as there is at least one .
21 " The engineers are working as fast as they can . "
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