Example sentences of "as [adv] as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as fighting for more money , her task was to ensure that ‘ every last pound ’ was spent as effectively as it could be . |
| 2 | The client must consent in writing to his money being placed in such an account after a proper opportunity to consider that information ; ( 8 ) If the firm has any ground ( other than the absence of an acknowledgement as described above ) for believing that client money held in a particular bank account outside the UK will not be protected as effectively as it would be if held in a free money bank account in the UK ; ( 9 ) If the firm proposes not to pay interest on client money in accordance with the client money regulations . |
| 3 | So do n't write off the ‘ old country ’ yet Amanda it is n't doing as badly as it thinks . |
| 4 | His interview with Law went as badly as it is easily possible to imagine . |
| 5 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 6 | ‘ As right as it will ever be . |
| 7 | If at the end of the eight week period since completion , debts remained unpaid , the vendor should have the right to buy back [ at an agreed discount ] the debts which it may then seek to enforce ( as vigorously as it wishes ) in order to seek payment . |
| 8 | But the process does n't work ( that is , accord with our intuitions ) anything like as powerfully as it does in music . |
| 9 | If the safeguards we propose are adopted , we are confident this can work as successfully as it already does in the magistrates ’ and county courts . ’ |
| 10 | Both , when smiling , underwent a total transformation that illuminated an unsuspected streak of gaiety in their characters as successfully as it illuminated their eyes . |
| 11 | Maximum clarity , he wrote , for as long as it takes . |
| 12 | Immediate first aid for a bleeding nose is to tilt the head back and pinch the nostrils together for as long as it takes . |
| 13 | The compensation deal will cost the government an estimated A$100m and involves Canberra waiving airport landing charges for as long as it takes the airlines to recoup their losses from keeping about 21,000 non-pilot employees on their staff during the dispute . |
| 14 | They refrained from responding to a long series of statements by senior Chinese officials which contradicted both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration - including an assurance , for example , that the post-1997 Hong Kong press would be free for ‘ as long as it did not publish anything detrimental to China 's national interest ’ . |
| 15 | A spokesman said the seven Kurds released from Haslar detention centre , near Gosport , Hampshire , and all 18 from Gloucester Prison were given temporary admission ‘ for as long as it takes to assess their cases ’ . |
| 16 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 17 | The White House spokesman , Mr Marlin Fitzwater , said yesterday that the troops would stay for ‘ as long as it takes , ’ while a subdued Defence Secretary , Mr Dick Cheney , added : ‘ Within the next few weeks we 'll be able to meet the objectives . ’ |
| 18 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |
| 19 | With its inflation still rising , the country on the verge of a perilous wage-price spiral and public finances deeply in the red , the Bundesbank has made it clear that it will keep the German economy locked in a vice of high interest rates for as long as it takes to squeeze out inflation . |
| 20 | In extremely dry periods , the lungfish of Africa just bury themselves in the mud at the bottom of their temporary ponds , and wait for as long as it takes until it rains again . |
| 21 | It was in any case something of a miracle — and a tribute to the tenacity of the Lebanese — that their Covenant worked for as long as it did . |
| 22 | We just use whatever plane we can for as long as it takes : Singapore in eight hours of helicopter flight , Egypt in 50 . |
| 23 | For instance , a very good way is to make everything you do take twice as long as it would normally take you . |
| 24 | They had little alternative but to stay there ‘ for as long as it takes ’ . |
| 25 | He said the atmosphere at each gathering had been one of calm , loving concern , and this would continue for as long as it took to get the children home . |
| 26 | ‘ Again , I lived with Mike for as long as it took to get the divorce and then I arranged the wedding . |
| 27 | For the next few days — for as long as it takes — you just continue your life as though nothing has happened . |
| 28 | ‘ Men who are rappers have to be sexist or they 're gon na lose their credibility , so they 're gon na continue to dis women for as long as it proves their manhood . |
| 29 | While few serious historians have defended Communist excesses , some have argued that it was only the strategy in whose name they were committed that enabled the Republic to fight on for as long as it did . |
| 30 | ( It also renders Tongan maps a most inconvenient shape : to accommodate all the Friendly Islands and all the Tongan seas , a scale map has to be about five times as long as it is wide , though nearly all the population and commerce is bunched in the islands in the far south . ) |