Example sentences of "as [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In using the OSO model to restructure industrial support within the DTI , ministers may be attracted by the benefits of devolving other activities the Glasgow experience has shown can be performed just as effectively out of earshot of Big Ben . |
| 2 | Angalo was almost as badly out of breath but was going red in the face trying not to show it . |
| 3 | If tension was so high in an area not stricken by famine , it may be assumed that as much or more violence occurred in regions like the Ukraine and Tambov guberniia , which were nearly as badly off as the Volga . |
| 4 | If it manages to kill me in my sleep one night , you 'll be as badly off as you were before . ’ |
| 5 | The Greeks claim that their black economy is bigger than any other Community country 's , and so in absolute terms they are not quite as badly off as the published statistics make it seem . |
| 6 | Aegina is not as badly off as , say , Hydra , or as Athens will be until the extra river the Athenians plan to tap comes on stream ; but this is a dry island . |
| 7 | You may find that with judicious use of available cash you 're not quite as badly off as you feared . |
| 8 | The war years had certainly elevated their position , but this was to be only temporary , and at the end of the 17th Century women were as badly off as if the war had never happened , worse in fact because their position declined after the war . |
| 9 | Very soon he stopped , juggled the engines to and fro until he reckoned the bows were a hundred yards distant from the buoy , had the anchor dropped , then moved just as slowly astern , the anchor chain being paid out as he went . |
| 10 | I 'll be working in my own way — the same sort of thing , but what I see as rather more — serious . " |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It took as long again for their theories to be discredited , despite the fact that almost none of their Hollywood idols would agree that they were the sole auteur of the films they made ; while the greatest weakness of their belief was that the most flawed work by one of their preferred film-makers was of more interest than a major piece by one of those they did not rate . |
| 14 | Tree shrews are usually 6–10 in ( 15–25 cm ) in length with a tail as long again as their body . |
| 15 | When it obtained the Royal Assent , the Criminal Justice Act 1988 had expanded to 173 Sections and sixteen schedules , half as long again as the Bill which had its First Reading in November 1986 , allowing for the separate provisions of the 1987 Act . |
| 16 | Stretch rashers with the back of a knife until almost half as long again , then halve crossways and wrap each half around a prune . |
| 17 | It was written in sub Gone with the Wind style , was longer than the American Civil War and took almost as long again to identify what sort of food was actually on offer from amongst the jokey prose . |
| 18 | As always , he wrote , painting lags behind literature , which saw the connection as long ago as Poe . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As long ago as 1969 a small committee asked to report , from outside the Faculty , on the perennially troubled state of Cambridge English concluded , |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | As long ago as 1975 , 120 tonnes of porpoise meat was sold annually in Peru . |
| 28 | Indeed , as long ago as 1958 the Lambeth Conference of Bishops issued this Resolution : |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |