Example sentences of "as [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a final darting glance to ensure that her appearance was in order she made her way as nervously downstairs as if it had been she herself about to marry . |
| 2 | I know that nowadays the congregations at chapels have sadly declined but if the services lasted as long today as they did in my childhood they would be empty altogether . |
| 3 | Tree shrews are usually 6–10 in ( 15–25 cm ) in length with a tail as long again as their body . |
| 4 | As always , he wrote , painting lags behind literature , which saw the connection as long ago as Poe . |
| 5 | The latter , built on the site of a station closed as long ago as 1865 , was wholly funded by the GLC and the Department of Environment 's urban programme grant . |
| 6 | As long ago as 1969 a small committee asked to report , from outside the Faculty , on the perennially troubled state of Cambridge English concluded , |
| 7 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |
| 8 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |
| 9 | LIONEL HAMPTON One of the few remaining links with the classic era , Hamp played drums for Louis Armstrong as long ago as 1930 ; later in that decade his pulsating vibes gave Benny Goodman 's great quartet much of its joie de vivre . |
| 10 | The proposal for a community charge — or ‘ poll tax ’ — put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition , not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition , After all , freeborn Englishmen , led by Wat Tyler , had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381 , and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest , including in the Conservative shires . |
| 11 | The precedent for a Bentley imbued with the genuine bulldog spirit was created as long ago as 1982 by the Mulsanne Turbo , the first red-blooded carriage to roll out of Crewe for decades . |
| 12 | As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ |
| 13 | As long ago as 1975 , 120 tonnes of porpoise meat was sold annually in Peru . |
| 14 | Indeed , as long ago as 1958 the Lambeth Conference of Bishops issued this Resolution : |
| 15 | More importantly , as long ago as 1981 the Labour Party itself acknowledged in a major Policy Statement that the SDLP is ‘ a moderate nationalist party with very little support outside of the catholic community , and no trade union affiliation ’ . |
| 16 | This is not a party dominated by technocrats who have fearlessly built great industries , but ‘ Increasingly politicians without a great deal of first-hand experience of the world outside politics are running the country , including the economy , in conjunction with civil servants who similarly lack first-hand experience of the world outside politics , ’ Anthony King noted as long ago as 1981 . |
| 17 | As long ago as 1980 , he dominated the most potent fast attack in history . |
| 18 | As long ago as 1980 , he dominated the most potent fast attack in history . |
| 19 | Ireland , which had been ruled by England for nearly seven centuries , had remained largely Roman Catholic — despite considerable immigration from Scotland and England to Ulster , in the seventeenth century — had harboured bitterness as long ago as Queen Elizabeth I 's time and , in 1845 , a great period of famine occurred , resulting in wholesale emigration , mainly to the United States of America , generally in ships with appalling travelling facilities and causing appreciable loss of life to the passengers on the way . |
| 20 | Scientists at the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) reported that a link might exist as long ago as 1968 . |
| 21 | Wortley was closed as long ago as 1955 , but part of it survives as a private residence . |
| 22 | As long ago as the late nineteenth century , Robert Elliot in co-operation with James Hunter , the seeds- man , had developed his Clifton Park System of farming , in which the deep-rooting , herbal ley was the cornerstone on which soil structure and fertility were built . |
| 23 | As long ago as the seventeenth century worries have been expressed about the inadequacies of official libraries . |
| 24 | Coldingham Priory was founded as long ago as 635 AD . |
| 25 | As long ago as 1911 Edmund Holmes wrote of schools that were ‘ ridden by the examination incubus ’ , arguing that everyone was cheated by a system whose merit-order and pass-lists were nothing but ‘ outward signs ’ . |
| 26 | Fishing was Grimsby 's raison d'être as long ago as the thirteenth century , and it is the oldest chartered ( i.e. granted written rights and privileges by the king ) town in England . |
| 27 | From East Ham and Woolwich , upstream through Greenwich , Deptford and Rotherhithe , Isle of Dogs , Limehouse , Wapping and Stepney , the great system of commercial docks begun in the Middle Ages stretches along the Thames where , as long ago as the Roman occupation , the estuary 's great potential was realised . |
| 28 | As long ago as 1978 , the Scottish Hospital Advisory Service reported from observation visits to long-stay hospitals throughout Scotland that even when adjustable beds were provided , they were frequently found at a height too high for the patients ' safety and unfortunately , this is often still true . |
| 29 | As long ago as Plato it was believed , ‘ if a person be guilty of impiety let him be punished with death . ’ |
| 30 | As long ago as May 1954 R.E . |