Example sentences of "go [adv] as [adv] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin . |
| 2 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 3 | In a review of studies on the ability of the older worker to learn , going back as far as the 1920s , it was concluded that changes in learning ability with age are generally small . |
| 4 | On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish . |
| 5 | He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day . |
| 6 | Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration . |
| 7 | The first of these went back as far as the second half of the sixteenth century . |
| 8 | These divisions run very deep and go back as far as the available documents provide information on such matters . |
| 9 | erm that went about as well as the first maths one . |
| 10 | Scotland went ahead as early as the ninth minute when George Gemmell crashed the ball home after Tom Brown 's cut-back . |