Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 2 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 3 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 4 | ‘ I think it fits as well as it ever will . |
| 5 | And then in the air it stiffens very slightly as it cools down , but I think on a nice warm day like this is might be . |
| 6 | If it gets as far as a decision , it will prove the leading case for some time on the thorny issue of what duty regulators owe the customers of the regulated . |
| 7 | It avoids so far as possible those terms of art which have acquired a special meaning understood only by lawyers in which many of the penal enactments which it supersedes were couched . |
| 8 | The distinction is arbitrary and it varies very greatly as we move across the map . |
| 9 | It takes as long as six or seven years and colossal sums of money ( some estimates suggest in excess of £10 million ) to put a new compound on the market . |
| 10 | I thought , I did n't think that it takes as long as that . |
| 11 | It takes as long as it does for a dog to douse a tree trunk . |
| 12 | He said that was last Friday , oh I said I was filling my timesheet in and my expense sheet , not that long , I said well it takes as long as it takes do n't it ? |
| 13 | After it is painted onto the wood it sets very quickly as it cools and the joint is soon firm . |
| 14 | If the focus is that the school is a good place for all , that it gives as well as takes , then it can gain a great deal of positive publicity . |
| 15 | It does so indirectly as probably the most important forum of opinion and vehicle of publicity in relation to the Executive 's other chief constitutional responsibility — to the electorate . |
| 16 | Certainly it does as far as the naked eye is concerned . |
| 17 | A layer of heavy-gauge builder 's polythene can then be used to line the excavation as a safety precaution against leaking , but also as a means of retaining moisture within the setting concrete so that it dries as slowly as possible . |
| 18 | Fig. 3 ( b ) Having rammed the soil down firmly to ensure a firm base , a layer of heavy-gauge builder 's polythene is used to line the excavation as a safety precaution against leaking and also to help retain moisture within the setting concrete so that it dries as slowly as possible . |
| 19 | Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well . |