Example sentences of "as [adv] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 2 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 3 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 4 | So the tradition of ‘ arrangiarsi ’ , of having a network of ‘ contacts ’ ( ‘ He who has more saints gets to Paradise , ’ they say in Naples ) and of having rock-like families to protect you if you did n't make out , grew as naturally as did the Mafia and the Camorra as systems of rough justice and violent ‘ government ’ . |
| 5 | And after the revolution the two strata coalesced to form a ruling class which repressed and exploited workers and peasants as brutally as did the capitalists of the West . |
| 6 | He did not assert his claims for the structure and rites and liturgy of the Church of England as highly as did the divines of the next century . |
| 7 | Once airborne , the technique of control comes just as easily as riding the proverbial bicycle … until that is , you fall off ! |
| 8 | Jazz rhythms emerged as easily as did the eastern element and music of genuine integrity was the result . |
| 9 | To follow Cole that far would come perilously near to accepting that Co-operation was , as nearly as makes no difference , the Consumers ' Movement ; and that its future lay in further growth beyond that already achieved by 1939 until , so long as progress continued , it could within its chosen field have virtually displaced all competing provision and all competing manufacture for the purpose of provision . |
| 10 | These he seems to have been given , or as near as made no difference . |
| 11 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 12 | Exact knowledge is within our grasp , as near as makes no difference . |
| 13 | A reading of some of the sacred texts of Hinduism and even non-theistic Buddhism arguably reveals a vision of reality permeated by a single transcendent being as clearly as do the texts and commentaries of the Near Eastern religions . |
| 14 | Harold is a very good prime minister as far as taking the Cabinet goes . |
| 15 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 16 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 17 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 18 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 19 | José Harris has gone as far as to describe the dispute as ‘ a major conflict of principle ’ between the two boards . |
| 20 | Barclay 's has gone as far as to create a ‘ high technology ’ unit to examine requests for finance from possible customers . |
| 21 | The Greek governing party , PASOK , went as far as to create a ‘ Green Guard ’ around the Premier Papandreou . |
| 22 | She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind . |
| 23 | Did anyone get as far as buying a programme for the Villa game , or did n't they even go on sale ? |
| 24 | Once the observer decides that the mismatch of intended and actual activities is negative rather than positive as far as helping the children to learn is concerned , he will need to identify where modification is necessary . |
| 25 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 26 | As far as making the film succeed is concerned , there are really only three who matter , apart from any actors . |
| 27 | The Letterewe estate is run as a wilderness area and not as a commercial estate — this is an immense boon as far as preserving the beauty of the area is concerned . |
| 28 | HOW 'S ABOUT FAT , THEN : The Duchess gets as far as raising a leg but then decides exercise is just too much effort and takes the rest of the sunbathing session lying down |
| 29 | At one point he even went as far as to tell a group of American diplomats that he expected the United States to take over the " primary role " which the British had hitherto held in the Middle East . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |