Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They live together and as far as he is concerned , he will treat her daughter as his own . |
| 2 | Headship is only a tool and one that is used sensitively and less frequently as the goal of oneness nears ( although there are always some who are more enamoured with the tools than the results ) . |
| 3 | This exercise must be done slowly and carefully so as not to let the barbell drop from your fingertips . |
| 4 | Stephen tied it up but the string broke and he had to drive the car into Hilderbridge very slowly and carefully so as not to overheat the engine . |
| 5 | Moving slowly and cautiously so as not to rip any of the rubber components of their diving suits , they passed in file into a compartment not more than four feet in height but almost twenty feet in length , extending from the nose cone , under the flight deck and then several feet beyond . |
| 6 | The chief responsibility of the keeper 's council was to keep the king supplied with necessary cash , but no amount of good will and effort on their part could have produced it as promptly and as copiously as the king 's needs demanded . |
| 7 | The critics were quick to recognise the anguish in the writing , but dismissed it as ‘ hopeless pessimism ’ or ‘ a shameful nightmare which one only wishes to forget as quickly and as completely as possible ’ . |
| 8 | We make sure your mortgage goes through as quickly and as easily as possible . |
| 9 | They bantered and argued with each other , laughed raucously , became angry and fell into sulks , changing moods as quickly and as unpredictably as children . |
| 10 | We have to work as quickly and as safely as we possibly can and we ca n't afford to spend five minutes er searching a house , let alone a flat . |
| 11 | The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end . |
| 12 | The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end . |
| 13 | I got up and dressed quickly and as quietly as I could , but Colin was awake and he mumbled a ‘ good luck ’ as I headed for the door . |
| 14 | Well having er carried this appliance nine flights of stairs to the ninth floor of the flat erm my objective was to gain entry into the flat onsh , sorry once the okay was given erm , again the objective was to gain entry into the flat as quickly and as quietly as possible er , by my mistake the equipment was not placed one hundred percent correctly and began to malfunction. er It started to make er a bit of a whirring noise , and a bit of a loud noise and again the objective was to gain entry quickly and quietly . |
| 15 | But Mr Kinnock , 50 , clearly devastated by his party 's rejection at the polls , wants a successor chosen as quickly and as smoothly as possible . |
| 16 | At the same time , there was a rapidly expanding population , so house-builders constructed many small houses as cheaply and as quickly as they could ( without proper foundations ) . |
| 17 | My thought processes were still numb , but I got feebly into action , moving more and more strongly as I sought out wood for a fresh fire . |
| 18 | The connection between girls suffering from eating disorders and violently hating their own bodies , and sexual violence in society , struck me more and more powerfully as I listened to girls talking about periods , body shape and size , and how they feel about their bodies . |
| 19 | They 'd seen each other fairly regularly since , but more and more competitively as time went on . |
| 20 | We met more and more frequently as the months went by , until we had more drafts than the windows of a stone cottage . |
| 21 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
| 22 | We are all familiar with the fact that the days of our childhood seemed to stretch out , passing more and more quickly as we grew . |
| 23 | Fogarty was left to move further and further ahead as Joey Dunlop took up the challenge , then Robert Dunlop made up ground rapidly after being seventh at the end of lap one , and by the end of the second lap it was Joey ahead of Robert to initiate a battle which continued until the end of the race when Robert just squeezed ahead . |
| 24 | But slowly the quarrels grew further and further apart as Oswin taught Topaz to play chess , throw the dice , and handle a pack of cards like an expert . |
| 25 | Next day , he was home and as far as he was concerned it had never happened . |
| 26 | The former , whose work is well known throughout the North-East , has also toured nationally and as far as Poland . |
| 27 | Lesbians and gays are expressing themselves differently from the way they were before the Clause , but they are still saying as openly and as proudly as ever that they want the boundaries changed . |
| 28 | If you spread the group up and as far as you 're concerned there 's only a couple of guys looking at you and within the group more supportive than just one big body and if you 're feeling comfortable then the chances are you retain more information and part information to not just sat there . |
| 29 | He tried to shout as clearly and as slowly as possible . |
| 30 | about , no , no it 's only about a fortnight ago , I was on site doing a job and I come out and as far as you know what you call courtesy dial in a card , so that you do n't cut anybody off , you can dial it and everybody says oh what 's going off , you know , you can courtesy dial it , when we 've finished it shuts that channel down |