Example sentences of "[vb -s] as [adv] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing goes as fast as I want it ’ ) , there were problems with design . |
| 2 | " I stopped reading my mail but Sarah ( his wife ) did n't , " Strange said after issuing an apology which said : " I want to express my sincere apologies … no excuse can justify my outburst , and nobody feels as badly as I do . " |
| 3 | This process rarely runs as smoothly as I have suggested . |
| 4 | He knows as well as I do that , like the assisted places scheme , they are another step towards privatisation of the education system . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend knows as well as I do that no Government have brought the police force to such a level as this Conservative Government have done . |
| 6 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |
| 7 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |