Example sentences of "and as [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the highway and as fast as we can go . ’ |
| 2 | For all the rhetoric of a ‘ classless ’ society , of enabling people ‘ to rise as far and as fast as they can ’ , to quote John Major 's first speech to the new parliament , the reality remains of a nation in which inherited wealth and privilege , and institutionalised power or authority , matter far more than what individuals make of themselves . |
| 3 | and as fast as I could |
| 4 | I could see it running in her until it overflowed , and as fast as it ran more grief took its place until the lane and the streams ran with grief and all the valley was the colour of grief . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend can not write off the WEU as simply and as simplistically as he did . |
| 6 | By December 1888 Wilson , " speaking roughly , and as near as I can judge " , thought the union might have about 7,000 to 8,000 members and , in addition to Cardiff noted branches at Hull , Glasgow and Liverpool . |
| 7 | Employers complained of such traits as often and as vehemently as they complained of " riotous and unlawful combination " . |
| 8 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 9 | Madonna is saying , ‘ Do n't you wish you had as much sex as often and as uninhibitedly as me ? ’ to the poor old lights-out , pyjamas-on proletariat . |
| 10 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 11 | The heart of the matter is the provision of a physical and social environment through which the members of society may gradually withdraw from it as securely and as worthily as they enter it through the environment of home and education . |
| 12 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 13 | As part of the whole , they are expected to enable all who are present to make their offering to God as fully and as well as they can , in addition to making their own contribution for him . |
| 14 | The drugs that depressed the immune system were stopped , and as quickly as they had grown , the masses in the lungs began to disappear . |
| 15 | At the same time , there was a rapidly expanding population , so house-builders constructed many small houses as cheaply and as quickly as they could ( without proper foundations ) . |
| 16 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 17 | I had a record company screaming for final mixes , not even sure that they wanted this album because ‘ Space Oddity ’ did n't do too well and as far as they were concerned this was going to be the last they had to do with David Bowie , and I was n't delivering the goods . |
| 18 | then the properties we discover in that body , would depend on that complex idea , and be deducible from it , and their necessary connection with it be known ; as all properties of a triangle depend on , and as far as they are discoverable , are deducible from the complex idea of three lines , including a space . |
| 19 | We have facts about a charitable trust using ACE schemes to actually do my members ' jobs , do my members ' jobs in the home help service , do my members ' jobs in the social services — driving people about when they are not insured ; they do n't have PSV and as far as they 're concerned , ‘ so what ? ’ |
| 20 | They are ordinary normal persons , and as far as they were concerned their evidence is that essentially Mr. Winterbone was perfectly normal like them but suffering physically from pain from his shoulder . |
| 21 | The syllabus includes the ‘ core ’ of chemistry drawn up by the Standing Conference on University Entrance in 1983 , and as far as we can tell is also likely to include the new chemistry core under construction by the School Examination and Assessment Council . |
| 22 | To the non-angler this may seem of little importance but to the lesser informed JB is 50 per cent of the firm of Bruce and Walker , rod manufacturers , and as far as we were concerned walked on water ! |
| 23 | There was little or no difference in technical quality between the systems , and as far as we are concerned the matter can be decided on price . |
| 24 | It well I say one it was one of the aspects that was that tha that cropped up in our discussion about the criteria on Friday and as far as we 're concerned , what we are trying to do is not er to exclude anything from the discussion in terms of er trying to locate or find a suitable location . |
| 25 | And as far as we know there 's no been no account been taken that er the subsequent development that is likely to take place on any of these roads , which is clearly implied in some of that statements , of the consequent traffic that that would generate in itself . |
| 26 | And as far as we 're concerned we 're happy to er for people to start immediately they think they are available . |
| 27 | And we were we covered sixteen different MPs which is especially good news because Hugh Bailey normally supports the bill and as far as we know is likely to turn up and and vote for it . |
| 28 | We have been asked by the County Council to do these works and as far as we are concerned we will comply with them . |
| 29 | He explained : ‘ We are dealing direct with merchants over there and as far as we are aware they are very keen to import fish , such as small whiting , which they ca n't get from their own fishermen . |
| 30 | And as far as we 're concerned the boy can come and stay . |