Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent events in the market are being examined as quantitatively as possible , with the object of analysing the forces determining the degree of price instability and of cartel coherence . |
| 2 | By that time , the patterns of usage — still being developed as far as mathematics is concerned — will have become fairly clear . |
| 3 | Improved standards of living in the South would depend on increases in consumption of energy , but there was small prospect of its being consumed as efficiently as in the North . |
| 4 | If this has not already been done , the bone fragments should be separated , those of left and right bones being differentiated as far as possible . |
| 5 | The Charity Commissioners understand that many charities are out of step in this matter but they do wish to see matters being regularised as soon as possible . |
| 6 | I had to escape to the nearby wilderness of mountain and ice , to live out my days among chamois and eagle , which were being hunted as avidly as I. |
| 7 | whether the present legal powers in the 1983 Mental Health Act are being used as effectively as they can be , and what action could be taken in advance of any new legislation to ensure that they are . |
| 8 | Unless Mr Kravchuk — who likes to be seen holding the spiky bulava ( mace ) , the symbol of Ukraine 's bygone Cossack leaders — puts his vanity aside , he could end up being judged as harshly as the most famous Cossack , Bohdan Khmelnytsky . |
| 9 | The latter so impressed George II that he had it hung on the walls of his apartment , and it was being printed as late as 1821 . |
| 10 | Addressing the problem of finding a clear definition of the principle of subsidiarity , an annex declared that it " contributes to the respect for the national identities of member states and safeguards their powers " and that " it aims at decisions within the European Union being taken as closely as possible to the citizen " . |
| 11 | for direct processing the track index does not make it clear which records are in overflow and which in the prime data area ; this prevents the first overflow record being retrieved as quickly as is achieved in the two-entry index system — at least while it is the only overflow record . |
| 12 | Monsters were being created as early as the fourth millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Iran . |
| 13 | Aonach Mor has rapidly gained popularity and routes are being repeated as well as created . |
| 14 | The way in which the budgetary process is managed by the people involved may be as important as what is being managed as far as outcomes are concerned . |