Example sentences of "be [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 Lee Jackson has been competing very well as hooker and deserves another chance .
3 Quite stiff for the grade , with several moves that leave you wondering if you are climbing as well as you thought !
4 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 .
5 Okay well we 're waiting as far as I know for the money to come
6 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 .
7 I think they 're doing as well as can be expected .
8 Whether you want to or not , you 're leaving here just as soon as it can be arranged .
9 An executive said : ‘ We 're trying as far as we can to ensure that our business operates normally .
10 They are going as far as Collie .
11 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 .
12 Since then I have realised that the best way of avoiding publicity is to proclaim everything you are doing as loudly as possible .
13 PRODUCTION workers making toothpaste tubes in Kentucky have been travelling as far as Switzerland to keep abreast of new technology .
14 The Bishop : ‘ I think it is a very balanced and very clear statement of how we should be living so far as our sexuality is concerned . ’
15 In two weeks he will go to Germany for rehabilitation , and , by his doctor 's ‘ most optimistic expections ’ , could be training as hard as he was in July by the end of December .
16 THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe .
17 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 .
18 ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can , ’ cried Endill .
19 ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can . ’
20 ‘ I 'm waiting as patiently as I can but it 's getting a pain now .
21 At the halfway stage in the backswing , the left wrist should be facing straight outwards as shown in the main illustration above .
22 let's a what are we going to be doing today then as Dave 's already observed because he 's seen my notes it 's going to be a very full day er so we need to crack on .
23 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
24 While he may not be collecting as actively as he was a few years ago , his name still inspires sufficient awe in most art world people for them to request complete anonymity when discussing him .
25 Chemics ' manager Frank Myler said : ‘ He could be playing as early as October .
26 Lorraine Shaw says … she wwent to a course at Cheltenham and the coach told her that she could be throwing as far as 60 metres in two years … now her ambition is to break the commonwealth record and eventually the world record
27 Christ almighty I 'm trying as hard as I can !
28 In the pages that follow , I 'll be trying as frankly as possible to tell you something about myself — my childhood in Devon and Cornwall , my days as a newspaper reporter and those as a lance-corporal in the army ( not to mention the occasional hazardous romance in up-market Port Said ! ) and then , since 1961 , my career in television .
29 If you have experienced adverse symptoms this week , you may not be feeling as well as you did at the end of last week .
30 I always seem to get the wrong results even though I 'm working as hard as possible .
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