Example sentences of "[been] [verb] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 2 | If Richard Herrnstein ( ’ IQ encounters with the press ’ , 28 April , p 230 ) has been treated as shabbily as he says by American newspapers , that is unforgivable . |
| 3 | These syllabuses have been developed as far as possible in common with the HND in Business Studies . |
| 4 | Extra-Statutory Concession D2 has also been amended as far as an individual is concerned so that it does not apply to a settlor of a resident or non-resident " settlor-interested " settlement . |
| 5 | A Steamship Owners ' Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association had been formed as early as 1874 which later became part of a North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association , and as early as 1878 shipowners of the north-east were complaining of the " tyrannical " attempts of a " dictatorial body of unionists " ' to impose demands on the industry , establishing in 1885 a Central Association of Shipowners of Sunderland , Glasgow and Newcastle to put their views to the Royal Commission of 1886 on Chamberlain 's proposed Shipping Bill . |
| 6 | It had been forgotten as quickly as it had begun . |
| 7 | The impulse here had been to establish as securely as possible the stability of the field by identifying an essential and continuous Englishness which was equally present in such disparate forms as Anglo-Saxon poetry and the modern novel . |
| 8 | A Security Council vote to enforce its no-fly zone declaration had been expected as early as yesterday but it was postponed because of arduous negotiations over a final text , including the grace period before shoot-down or other orders could be issued . |
| 9 | So far all the preparations had been made as discreetly as possible , under cover of darkness , but now the moment he most dreaded was approaching , the moment when the sepoys would realize that a retreat was taking place and would launch their attack . |
| 10 | For although Cabezón 's compositions first appeared in print in Luys Venegas de Henestrosa 's Libro de cifra ( figure notation ) nueva para tecla ( keyboard ) , harpay vihuela ( Alcala , 1557 ) , and the rest of them only in the Obras de musica published posthumously by his son ( Madrid , 1578 ) , no doubt many had been written as early as the lute pieces in Narvaez 's Delphin de musica ( Valladolid , 1538 ) . |
| 11 | The condition of many villages points to depopulation , but , although Sezincote had been enclosed as early as 1486 , the region as a whole was ‘ remarkably free ’ of depopulating enclosure . |
| 12 | The house had been cleaned as well as was possible . |
| 13 | Because in it , through a slit in the curtains which had been drawn as incompetently as everything else about the house had been done , a heavy man could be seen , in winceyette pyjamas , red-faced and gesturing angrily . |
| 14 | Some of that deal has been produced as far as the Tornado 's concerned , but again you 're quite right we 're waiting for the announcement of the er orders for the trains . |
| 15 | Strictly visual language to make scientific points had been used as early as 1555 by Pierre Belon in his Oiseaux , where he put the skeleton of a man and a bird side by side to demonstrate their unity of plan , or homology . |
| 16 | The Football League had been founded as recently as 1888 , with its base firmly in the North and Midlands . |
| 17 | Arrival had been noted as early as 27 February ( 1971 ) , however , and some passage continues until mid-May . |
| 18 | Autumn arrival has been noted as early as 10 July , but usually starts in late October , and passage has been noted in November . |
| 19 | The company sees the service as a natural complement to NetWare 4.0 directory services — which have been based as far as possible on the X500 standard . |
| 20 | The interactions between modifying enzymes and tRNAs have not yet been characterized as extensively as those between tRNA and aminoacyl-tRNA-synthetases ( 4 ) . |
| 21 | The aim has been to ensure as far as possible employment opportunities are not lost or unduly constrained simply because there is a shortage of suitable sites . |
| 22 | PRODUCTION workers making toothpaste tubes in Kentucky have been travelling as far as Switzerland to keep abreast of new technology . |
| 23 | In the hon. Gentleman 's constituency , the time taken is being reduced , although it has not been reduced as fast as we should like . |
| 24 | The majority of house-holds used ceramic sauce-boats , which had been introduced as early as the 1740s . |
| 25 | The threat led to the resignation on March 4 of the head of the Special Force for the Fight against Drug Traffickers ( FELCN ) , Col. Faustino Rico Toro ( who had been appointed as recently as Feb. 26 ) , and was followed by that of the Interior Minister , Capobianco Ribera , after accusations in the US press of his association with drug trafficking [ see p. 38094-95 ] . |
| 26 | This time around , the computerisation curve has flattened out , so the electronics industry has been hit as hard as any . |
| 27 | I have n't been involved as far as the self-appraisal is concerned . |
| 28 | That has also been progressed as concurrently as possible with the greenbelt local plan . |
| 29 | That might seem like a long time , but the issues have clearly been complex , and have been progressed as quickly as possible not least through vigourous prodding by the D O E , keen to see approval of a long term development strategy for Greater York and more importantly , a statutory definition of the York gre greenbelt . |
| 30 | In 1428 , however , it and some neighbouring villages were excused from paying the subsidy because it had less than ten households , and the excavation of one of the houses suggests that it had been deserted as early as the second half of the fourteenth century . |