Example sentences of "and [vb past] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That vast tracts can be bought and sold as casually as a loaf of bread is immoral . |
| 2 | Our aim is to ensure that food is wholesome , of high quality and produced as economically as possible and to ensure that , not only in the United Kingdom but in the export market , people have the benefits of an outstanding product . |
| 3 | Back at the head of Varanger Fiord , we turned off north on what we hoped was the road to Fuglafjell and got as far as the fishing village of Syltefiord . |
| 4 | I was going towards the North Stand and got as far as the All-Blacks ' 10-yard line . |
| 5 | It was delivered from Ford on a transporter to in Daybrook , run off the transporter , they did the P D I , she went to collect her brand new car and got as far as Kwik-Save in Sherwood . |
| 6 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |
| 7 | To begin with she heard nothing to justify her fright , and got as far as the staircase between floors before the lift began to hum . |
| 8 | He lengthened rather than quickened his pace — difficult to detect from behind — stepped into the alley and sprinted as hard as he could . |
| 9 | A less obvious and regrettably a more common example is where students are presented throughout the course with bodies of facts and procedures to be remembered and applied as faithfully as possible ; then in the final testing they are assessed on their ability to apply their knowledge and skills to new situations , or to explain , justify and discuss the reasons behind procedures . |
| 10 | Instead , I invested in my future by buying a word processor and kept on those visits from counsellor and healer and maintained as far as possible — even over Christmas itself — my ‘ stay well ’ diet . |
| 11 | I waved my arms and shouted as loudly as possible . |
| 12 | The oppressive regime I had anticipated was not apparent and the whole complex seemed clean , active and designed as far as possible to provide reasonable conditions and amenities for its inmates . |
| 13 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 14 | Andy Preston came dressed as an Eater Island Statue — and slammed as hard as one too . |
| 15 | In all these activities the place of the elderly client in the family network should be maintained and enhanced as far as possible . |
| 16 | We obtained directions and drove as rapidly as possible to the rival meeting . |
| 17 | The streets curved and twisted as pleasantly as the river , but were shaded by fine lime trees , now breaking into delicate leaf , instead of the willows , soon to shimmer summer through , above the trout-ringed reaches of the River Pleshey . |
| 18 | Sir John turned and belched as loudly as he could . |
| 19 | Between them come Stravinsky 's Dumbarton Oaks concerto and Frank Martin 's Petite Symphonie Concertante , a work that grows in stature with every hearing , especially when conducted and played as well as it is here . |
| 20 | I do n't need food ’ , and the sub-text , admitted only to myself and ignored as far as possible , read , ‘ I 'm starving . ’ |
| 21 | Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ The conflict sank once more to the bloody but local struggles of two or three divisions repeatedly renewed as fast as they were consumed , and consumed as fast as they were renewed . |
| 22 | He hovered about the site restlessly , like one barefoot on thorns , all the while they were removing the debris of sagging , uprooted broom bushes , which Orrie phlegmatically loaded into a handcart and wheeled away along the riverside path to be unloaded and burned as far as possible from the sacred precincts . |
| 23 | Because prayers had to be stimulated and informed as well as ordered , the preaching role of the church was no less important . |
| 24 | The terrified Frankie skidded round the corner wall of the end house and raced as fast as his legs would carry him down towards the walkway gate . |
| 25 | Shoppers in St Helens cheered and applauded as more than 3,000 protesters , many of them waving banners and placards , marched through the town centre in a bid to save the doomed Parkside Colliery , on Saturday . |
| 26 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 27 | The form should be completed and returned as soon as possible to the North-Eastern Education and Library Board . |
| 28 | Eden also argued that we should not distinguish between the Soviet government and any other allied government , but his overriding conclusion was that : " It is most important that our own prisoners in Germany and Poland be well cared for and returned as soon as possible . |
| 29 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 30 | Lydia opened the door to let out the cigarette smoke and walked as far as the stream , wondering why the blazes Betty was behaving in so singular a fashion . |