Example sentences of "made as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broad native roads made as straight as possible for their mark , like the roads of the Romans , seem to pick out preferentially the highest and steepest hills , which they ascend perpendicularly and without compromise . |
| 2 | Visits to Exeter he made as rarely as possible . |
| 3 | As suggested in [ 95 , p. 94 ] , it was possibly in connection with the announcement of publication , made as early as 1843 , that in the period 1844–6 A L Cauchy was especially active in developing the theory of permutations . |
| 4 | It featured more than 100 works , some made as early as 1915 , and was introduced , in part , by an essay O'Keeffe wrote for the exhibition brochure Stieglitz had prepared . |
| 5 | He made as swiftly as he could for the foyer . |
| 6 | In the days following announcement of the inquiry , accusations were made against ministers , including in particular John Major , of attempting to cover up modifications made as late as July 1990 to the original 1985 policy towards exports to Iraq [ for which see p. 34515 ] , and of misleading the House of Commons in this respect . |
| 7 | The request , made as recently as last November , when the uproar about Libya 's refusal to hand over its two suspects was at its height , was duly ingored . |
| 8 | Marshall decried the reversal of a ruling made as recently as 1989 , and claimed that " power , not reason , is the new currency of this court 's decision-making " . |