Example sentences of "[be] [verb] as [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his appeal to the IRA leadership to call a halt to its bloody campaign is likely to be dismissed as promptly as the Loyalists yesterday rejected calls to lay down their arms . |
| 2 | as colleagues who are involved will know is just about the only industry in the building materials sector that has n't made some kind of pay offer in this current round it 's very much bringing up the rear and we 're determined to use what industrial strength we have to change the employer 's stance otherwise we 're very concerned that the national negotiation missionary , this will be his death knell since we 'll have to resort to local pay bargaining , so the short answer is E C C er , will be balloted as far as the G M B is concerned union and , er , T & G are balloting in for industrial action to try to change the employers ' position . |
| 3 | None of these has posed any particular threat to the hegemony of traditional discipline and patterns of academic thought and women can be incorporated as easily as the rest . |
| 4 | The loss of a goldfish might be felt as keenly as the loss of a family dog in certain circumstances . |
| 5 | That his departure can be dated as late as the reign of Mehmed I Uzuncarsili 's alternative suggestion is , however , rendered unlikely by the fact that there exists a dated Rajab 808/December 1405-January 1406 which carries the signature of Ibrahim b . |
| 6 | THE good news yesterday was that the public sector borrowing requirement may not be growing as fast as the pessimists feared , and the need for tax increases in the Budget may not be as insistent as some analysts believe . |
| 7 | References to the delírio , the madness of hunger , can be found as early as the sixteenth century in the writings of Portuguese navigators , and it is a recurring theme in Brazilian literature right up to the present day . |
| 8 | And big brewers Scottish & Newcastle chairman Sir Alick Rankin reckons the north will soon be hit as hard as the south . |
| 9 | Cars may be taken as far as the Hall and , with permission , parked there , a concession especially appreciated when returning . |
| 10 | The CDU would not let economic planning be taken as far as the SPD favoured , farmers protested against cuts in agricultural subsidies and defence cuts could not go far because of fears of weakening NATO . |
| 11 | The sky needs to be worked as carefully as the tiniest twig or grass . |
| 12 | This review is to be repeated as frequently as the county council determines . |
| 13 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 14 | Then there are the containers themselves which have to be chosen as carefully as the plants that will be grown in them . |