Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] as [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Witchcraft and sorcery , which in any case few other cultures distinguish as sharply as the Zande , are not the only mystical responses to the experience of affliction in tense relationships . |
| 2 | Some day a Western team will be able to get sufficient funds to train as intensively as the Poles , who yet again took the first three places and the team prize . |
| 3 | IBM files performed better the larger the bucket capacity , while ICL files performed better the smaller the bucket capacity ; very roughly , the six-record buckets were equivalent , while IBM two-record buckets performed as badly as the ICL fourteen-record buckets . |
| 4 | I want it to be clearly understood that I do not in any way mean to suggest there is any question of prevarication when I say that as to the prospect for the future there is essentially a difference between what the plaintiff 's parents said in their statements made as recently as the twenty eighth of October of this year and what they said in their evidence about their attitude to future care . |
| 5 | There is even evidence to suggest that elephants existed as far as the Upper Euphrates basin as late as the first millennium B.C. Syrian ivory contributed to the supplies available to New Kingdom Egypt and at the same time provided the material for the flourishing school of ivory workers based on Tyre , the products of which enriched the civilizations of the east Mediterranean and Assyria . |
| 6 | When they launched themselves into the dusk they seemed to fill the sky to the north for long minutes , and their cries reached as far as the village . |
| 7 | The work of solicitors varies as widely as the community they service . |
| 8 | Into this lethal mêlée flew the Lordly Phantasms , flourishing their laspistols and power stilettos , their gowns fluttering as phosphorescently as the wings of radioactive moths , their daemon-masks leering . |
| 9 | But for once it was the taking part that counted most and when you 've slept in the ruins of a fifties French post office , seen the New Year in with champers in the middle of a sand dune , coped with Idi Amin look-alike policemen and paid backstreet prices to backstreet petrol dealers , you 're going to have memories to last as long as the event . |
| 10 | It is clear that many of these kinds of views were based on the evidence that in some areas of employment , and in particular on production lines involving speed and pacing , problems began as early as the mid to late forties . |
| 11 | Seen from a hill , the dunes stretched as far as the deep blue of the horizon , above which were a few streaks of cirrus cloud . |
| 12 | The Three Pigeons stood as comfortably as The Two Pheasants , and the major houses round the green endured in all their Cotswold serenity . |
| 13 | Oxford began the night teetering on the brink of the relegation zone and pulse rates soared as early as the second minute . |
| 14 | It is a superb sight with fields of dazzling Tulips , Narcissi and Hyacinths extending as far as the eye can see in a variegated patchwork of brilliant regimented blocks . |
| 15 | Beyond the placid waters of a small lake , a golden forest of trees stretched as far as the eye could see . |
| 16 | The Old Dissenting sects failed as badly as the Established Church in meeting the challenge of population growth and the Industrial Revolution . |
| 17 | Complaints about the behaviour of some tourists began as early as the 1850s . |
| 18 | Similarly , cosmetic surgery is seen in the professional literature as an option ( some parents choose it , some do n't ) , or even as a kind of cure , especially by the surgeons contracted to perform it , whose understanding of the issues extends as far as the principle that if people see a physically normal child they will react to it ‘ normally ’ and will elicit normal behaviour . |
| 19 | As his eyes slowly became accustomed to the half-light , he began to make out row upon row of brown tents stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 20 | The little manor-house at Cadhay stands near at hand in the Ottery meadows , and more distant views reach as far as the great hill-fort at Hembury , built on a commanding spur of land in the late Iron Age . |
| 21 | Once again , the wisecracks fly as fast as the bullets — and are just as deadly . |
| 22 | The gags fly as fast as the bullets . |
| 23 | In Dahomey , a few African papers emerged as early as the 1920s . |
| 24 | An excursion to the top of the high alpine road of Gross Glockner will leave you breathless at the fantastic views stretching as far as the eye can see in every direction . |
| 25 | Ships were carved from the blighted forests with supernatural speed , and raiders moved as far as the Isle of the Dead before being turned back by the warding spells . |
| 26 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |