Example sentences of "be as [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It could have been as long ago as last Christmas , ’ he said . |
| 2 | But a number are outside the borough boundaries and some are as far afield as Northallerton , Thirsk and Wolsingham 26 miles away from Darlington town centre . |
| 3 | But a number are outside the borough boundaries and some are as far afield as Northallerton , Thirsk and Wolsingham 26 miles away from Darlington town centre . |
| 4 | Each component of the partition is a cluster , and the algorithm is intended to find clusters which are as far apart as possible . |
| 5 | Most people — though not all — continue to vote tribally for objectives which , after nearly 25 years of conflict , are as far apart as ever . |
| 6 | The two sides are as far apart as ever and the latest developments on the Dublin and London fronts are not likely to bring them closer . |
| 7 | This year over 40 exhibitors spread themselves between a score of hotels and venues , apparently selected on the basis of being as far apart as possible . |
| 8 | Yes I am but I do n't being as far away as I am |
| 9 | But then the feet began to stretch wider and wider apart , and I knew that when the feet were as far apart as I was long , I 'd fall through to the heaving belly beneath . |
| 10 | An attraction of the older cosmology was that heaven and hell were as far apart as possible — the former beyond the outermost sphere , the latter in the bowels of the earth . |
| 11 | It was as long ago as 1863 that Lister pointed out , ‘ the real cause of the coagulation of blood is the influence exerted on it by ordinary matter … the contact of which effects a disposition to coagulate ’ . |
| 12 | ( Although it was as long ago as 1884 that Marx wrote of the shift from worker as producer to worker as consumer , the degree of expendability of goods and their constant replacement by better and newer models has markedly increased during the latter half of this century . ) |
| 13 | That was as long ago as 8 May 1991 , but nothing has been done . |
| 14 | The initial elation the rest of us were experiencing was as far away as her childhood . |
| 15 | The driver sought out the agreed parking space which was as far away as possible from the canteen and shop complex . |
| 16 | The most that could yet be achieved was independence from rich outsiders ; independence from rich local men was as far away as ever , even in Liverpool . |