Example sentences of "[adv] and as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They live together and as far as he is concerned , he will treat her daughter as his own . |
| 2 | The chief responsibility of the keeper 's council was to keep the king supplied with necessary cash , but no amount of good will and effort on their part could have produced it as promptly and as copiously as the king 's needs demanded . |
| 3 | The critics were quick to recognise the anguish in the writing , but dismissed it as ‘ hopeless pessimism ’ or ‘ a shameful nightmare which one only wishes to forget as quickly and as completely as possible ’ . |
| 4 | We make sure your mortgage goes through as quickly and as easily as possible . |
| 5 | They bantered and argued with each other , laughed raucously , became angry and fell into sulks , changing moods as quickly and as unpredictably as children . |
| 6 | We have to work as quickly and as safely as we possibly can and we ca n't afford to spend five minutes er searching a house , let alone a flat . |
| 7 | The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end . |
| 8 | The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end . |
| 9 | I got up and dressed quickly and as quietly as I could , but Colin was awake and he mumbled a ‘ good luck ’ as I headed for the door . |
| 10 | Well having er carried this appliance nine flights of stairs to the ninth floor of the flat erm my objective was to gain entry into the flat onsh , sorry once the okay was given erm , again the objective was to gain entry into the flat as quickly and as quietly as possible er , by my mistake the equipment was not placed one hundred percent correctly and began to malfunction. er It started to make er a bit of a whirring noise , and a bit of a loud noise and again the objective was to gain entry quickly and quietly . |
| 11 | But Mr Kinnock , 50 , clearly devastated by his party 's rejection at the polls , wants a successor chosen as quickly and as smoothly as possible . |
| 12 | At the same time , there was a rapidly expanding population , so house-builders constructed many small houses as cheaply and as quickly as they could ( without proper foundations ) . |
| 13 | Next day , he was home and as far as he was concerned it had never happened . |
| 14 | The former , whose work is well known throughout the North-East , has also toured nationally and as far as Poland . |
| 15 | Lesbians and gays are expressing themselves differently from the way they were before the Clause , but they are still saying as openly and as proudly as ever that they want the boundaries changed . |
| 16 | If you spread the group up and as far as you 're concerned there 's only a couple of guys looking at you and within the group more supportive than just one big body and if you 're feeling comfortable then the chances are you retain more information and part information to not just sat there . |
| 17 | He tried to shout as clearly and as slowly as possible . |
| 18 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 19 | about , no , no it 's only about a fortnight ago , I was on site doing a job and I come out and as far as you know what you call courtesy dial in a card , so that you do n't cut anybody off , you can dial it and everybody says oh what 's going off , you know , you can courtesy dial it , when we 've finished it shuts that channel down |
| 20 | The heart of the matter is the provision of a physical and social environment through which the members of society may gradually withdraw from it as securely and as worthily as they enter it through the environment of home and education . |
| 21 | Madonna is saying , ‘ Do n't you wish you had as much sex as often and as uninhibitedly as me ? ’ to the poor old lights-out , pyjamas-on proletariat . |
| 22 | Employers complained of such traits as often and as vehemently as they complained of " riotous and unlawful combination " . |
| 23 | I trained as often and as hard as I could , as hard as anybody on the staff — and that includes my old pal Bryan Robson , who was notorious for his unflagging effort — but the pain was excruciating . |
| 24 | ‘ It is always tempting to bowl your genuine quicks as often and as long as possible , but that would be counter-productive . |
| 25 | ‘ She wanted to be in the land of make-believe as often and as long as possible … dealing with people and things according to imagination 's formulas , ’ her son Vivian said of her . |
| 26 | There can not be many women who run their homes as efficiently and as mechanically as a factory , or to the kind of strict timetables that the domestic manuals printed a generation or two ago would have us follow . |
| 27 | Yet the Han had destroyed all that they had once been — had severed them from their cultural roots as simply and as thoroughly as a gardener might snip the stem of a chrysanthemum . |
| 28 | My right hon. Friend can not write off the WEU as simply and as simplistically as he did . |
| 29 | I had a record company screaming for final mixes , not even sure that they wanted this album because ‘ Space Oddity ’ did n't do too well and as far as they were concerned this was going to be the last they had to do with David Bowie , and I was n't delivering the goods . |
| 30 | A shy and tentative smile came to the girl 's face and then she turned and went out of the room , walking as surely and as gracefully as if she could see just like everyone else . |