Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 The coils themselves should consist of 500 turns of 0.2mm enamelled wire scramble wound as neatly as possible over the core , the second winding crossing over the top of the first at right angles .
2 Oh , yes , I know I 've got tomorrow off as well , but David 's off today too , and he 's promised to ferry me around if I need to go from place to place . ’
3 but , er , I do n't think they 've got as far as yours have
4 Right , so anyway , we 've got as far as that and your everything seems alright eh ?
5 True it is frustrating that Rocastle is n't even on the bench , and it is bewildering why Wilko did n't notice the totally crap defence we 've got as quickly as everyone else did , but that 's no reason to have a go ( the chants were virtually to a man I would say ) .
6 Yes , and we at the university are , I think , really I say ‘ I think ’ , my own purpose here at the university is to export what we 've got as quickly as we can to the local community , and indeed nationally too .
7 Yes so lots of games for United to play at the moment with the postponements , a lot of mid-week games , a lot of games up here at the Manor , but erm as so often happens with United , after a good performance or a little a good run , they never quite do it at home do they , they never quite kill sides off and they draw in games that they 've played very well as they have done today .
8 ‘ And although I do n't think I 've played as badly as people have said , I think I can get more out of myself , and more out of others around me , if I play in a midfield alongside Gazza . ’
9 ‘ I feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said .
10 ‘ I think I 've gone as far as I can with it , ’ said Tony .
11 But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’
12 they 've lost as far as money 's concerned .
13 The Johnstons have made more than 100 egg creations in the past three years and have travelled as far as Australia and American to pursue their hobby .
14 I have responded as fully as possible when the hon. Gentleman has raised the matter , and I have drawn it to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food .
15 Also , on many occasions , I have telephoned as late as 7.15pm only to hear ‘ today 's ’ forecast — at a cost of some 50–60p — but with no hint of when it will actually be updated with the outlook for tomorrow .
16 With the October 1987 stockmarket crash and , now , a British recession , these revenues have vanished as capriciously as they arrived .
17 One implication of phenomenal rates of economic growth can be seen in rising incomes leading to an enormous increase in the ownership of consumer durables , although it is debatable whether incomes have risen as fast as GNP .
18 And you need done as far as I 'm concerned !
19 This is because demands fur virtuosity have grown as well as for greater physical flexibility .
20 I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it .
21 It was unlikely that any English advance-parties would in fact have got thus far as yet , but they went prepared .
22 Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light .
23 Such speeds would seem to be at variance with the shared space concept ; indeed some have gone so far as to suggest eight km/h as a more appropriate maximum consistent with child safety .
24 Some , such as Alan Walker , have gone so far as to argue that ‘ retirement is largely a twentieth century phenomenon ’ , and that ‘ the increasing dependency of elderly people in Britain has been socially engineered in order to facilitate the removal of older workers from the labour force ’ .
25 Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are .
26 In many cases local authorities have taken the initial steps and some have gone so far as to form housing associations for the specific purpose of transfer .
27 The Principal wrote in November 1967 that the only recourse was ‘ to ensure that every possible safeguard should be written into the constitution of such a scheme ’ , and following local negotiations he considered that ‘ we have gone as far as we are able so far to safeguard the courses and attitudes of this College and we have confidence that the LEA are making every effort to ensure that Diploma in Art and Design ( DipAD ) courses and developments will be given the fullest support , and will not be undermined in any way by the Polytechnic proposals ’ .
28 Over the millennia , cultures have changed very substantially as they have learned to cope with environmental vicissitudes .
29 You also ca n't help noticing that attempts to drag the Royal Family into the 20th Century have failed as badly as attempts to do the same for this other great British anachronism .
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