Example sentences of "[adj] as it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his voice rides the airwaves as fresh as it ever did , he admits that physically he is past his prime : arthritis brings him recurring pain in his legs although he has already lived 18 months longer than he was told a 60-a-day smoking habit would allow . |
| 2 | However , the situation is not quite so clear as it initially appears to be : in some earlier studies poly 3-deazaadenylic acid was shown to form unusually stable 1:1 and 1:2 duplexes with poly U ( 13 ) . |
| 3 | Not as funny as it actually happening and you getting covered in vomit but I mean it 's still vaguely amusing . |
| 4 | With glass , for instance , the molecular structure is only disturbed to a comparatively shallow depth below the fracture surface and W is generally around 6 J/m 2 — in other words about six times G — and so , although lg , the critical crack length , is six times as high as it otherwise would be , it is still very short and glass is a brittle material . |
| 5 | I mean , twenty years ago when the volume of work was n't so high as it now , then erm every police officer was doing that , but because time has marched on and problems have become more an more , erm we we tend to have left the traditional way of policing behind . |
| 6 | Come to think of it , the Krooms may have come from outer space , though outer space was not then as popular as it later became for launching expeditions against Earthmen . |
| 7 | The door to the conservatory veered at her , half-open as it always was by night . |
| 8 | It is hoped that the general reader will find this interesting as it certainly adds to the understanding of the fascinating discoveries described in the later chapters . |
| 9 | In my view the one disadvantage still to be overcome is that the receiver is not as waterproof as it really needs to be . |
| 10 | With Pakistan making the running in the group , the second England-West Indies game was crucial as it virtually assured the winners of a semi-final place . |
| 11 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 12 | We have a duty , as the authority that extracts money from the taxpayer and then spends it on buying services for the taxpayer , to ensure that every pound we spend on the taxpayers ' behalf buys as much as it possibly can . |
| 13 | Consequently , sleep might become disturbed , particularly when , in addition , kidney function does not decrease at night as much as it once did . |
| 14 | In each of the referendum campaigns since his return ( September 1958 , January 1961 , April 1962 ) , the government had manipulated the outcome as much as it decently could in a democratic system . |
| 15 | This section is not as deprived of light nor as gloomy as it once was , tree felling and gale damage having left gaps through which there are glimpses of the loch below , and the road has been cured of the hazards that beset the early travellers . |
| 16 | The argument proposed by Moscovitch is not as far-fetched as it perhaps appears . |
| 17 | Well , no security is one hundred per cent , it 's impossible to make any area completely secure , but it 's as tight as it possibly can be and I 'm quite happy with the security at the present time . |
| 18 | MI5 will remain as unaccountable as it always has been and since it blatantly ignored the 1952 directive for over three decades without once being publicly called to account there is no reason to believe that MI5 will be any more law-abiding now . |
| 19 | It 's no longer so unusual as it once was to discuss openly , in certain forums , the advantages ( and heavenly bliss ! ) of safer sex . |
| 20 | The bass has been beautifully set up , though , and traditional principles combined with components made to today 's criteria make this bass as valid and effective as it ever was . |
| 21 | More importantly , it 's er conveys to the client that we care about quality , that we 've gone to the trouble to set up procedures which make our product as good as it possibly can be . |
| 22 | The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place . |
| 23 | as tamed as it ever will be . |
| 24 | ‘ This is a statement of defiance to say the arrests have made absolutely no difference to them and Warrington is as vulnerable as it ever was , ’ he told Sky News . |
| 25 | But this conclusion is not particularly illuminating as it merely says that children come into local authority care when no one else can care for them , a repetitive statement we call a tautology . |
| 26 | In the letter of resignation which he conveyed to the Constitutional Council on Jan. 11 , Chadli revealed that he had dissolved ( on Jan. 4 as it later transpired ) by presidential decree the National Popular Assembly . |
| 27 | Map 2 ( page 11 ) shows the true dimensions , but it appears to be twice as long as it actually is . |
| 28 | It does not make any appreciable difference whether the solid is glassy or crystalline or even polymeric , nor does it matter whether it has a high or a low Young 's modulus 50 long as it more or less obeys Hooke 's law , virtually up to failure . |
| 29 | The language of the patent , ambiguous as it always is , emphasised how elimination of the spine could remove the risk of distortion and subsequent uneven distribution of pressure . |
| 30 | However , as we show in chapter 7 , section 7.3 , the private renting of housing is no longer nearly as important as it once was ; owner-occupancy and council renting are now the most significant forms of housing available . |