Example sentences of "the [adj] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is cut to the finest as far as the females are concerned . |
| 2 | The steak was left to congeal on the plate , and Jenny ran down to the stable as fast as she could . |
| 3 | The thought of Guy walking into the stable as calmly as you please , asking for his horse and riding out in full view of the entire garrison was utterly nerve-racking . |
| 4 | There are over protective parents and there are those that will defend the indefensible as far as their children are concerned . |
| 5 | On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) . |
| 6 | Thus the " domino " theory , later articulated by the Americans , was anticipated by the British as early as 1948 – 49 . |
| 7 | ‘ The brief as far as I was concerned was not to imitate a dancehall record , not to try and pretend it came from Gussie 's Music Works or it was a Firehouse Crew production or something . |
| 8 | He squatted down and propped it against a clump of little bushes , pulling up the aerial as far as it would go . |
| 9 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 10 | Twist your body to the left as far as possible , and then round to the right as far as possible . |
| 11 | A fan ran on the pitch and attempted to approach Walsh after the sending-off as early as the 14th minute . |
| 12 | In fact the more mature the better as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 13 | The former won , which was all to the good as far as the SAS was concerned . |
| 14 | Russell Reynolds has achieved the highest fee income in the British market through adapting to the British way of doing things whilst retaining an American approach to marketing and business development ; it has achieved the former as effectively as Spencer Stuart and the latter as profitably as Korn/Ferry , to produce a combination more successful than either . |
| 15 | The present case fell into the second category and not the first as far as garage C was concerned . |
| 16 | I followed the Awash as far as Bilen and then turned eastwards across the desert to Afdam on the railway . |
| 17 | A curriculum that genuinely values the practical as highly as the theoretical or academic must be geared to a public assessment system that does the same , and from which only the severely mentally handicapped , and not all of them , will need to be totally excluded . |
| 18 | Russell Reynolds has achieved the highest fee income in the British market through adapting to the British way of doing things whilst retaining an American approach to marketing and business development ; it has achieved the former as effectively as Spencer Stuart and the latter as profitably as Korn/Ferry , to produce a combination more successful than either . |
| 19 | Planting of standards and standard weepers is basically the same as far as soil preparation is concerned — the essential difference being that the plants have to be staked , and staking is something that has to be done properly . |
| 20 | If Nature had replaced God as the power that had created the human race , the message derived from the new world view was still the same as far as most people were concerned . |
| 21 | She was a woman from an age quite different from Erika 's own ; separated by a gulf , a measureless chasm of experience distancing them each from the other as surely as though they were beings from two different planets . |
| 22 | Transfer the fish from one system to the other as gently as possible with the minimum of stress . |
| 23 | He believes that even when farmed , wild boar must be genetically pure and reared in conditions which approximate the wild as closely as possible . |
| 24 | The artist … explained that the printer 's contribution in creating the official lithograph was merely mechanical , that his sole contribution was to reproduce the original as closely as possible , and that she had the absolute right of approval of all aspects of the final prints . |
| 25 | The object then was as it is today , to get from one place to the next as swiftly as possible . |