Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Chattahoochee river seems tranquil enough as it meanders 385 miles from north Georgia 's mountains past Atlanta , along the Alabama border and across the Florida Panhandle , finally spilling into the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 2 | The law , she thinks , is strong enough as it stands . |
| 3 | I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air , never to be seen again . |
| 4 | Her mocking laughter sounded as clear now as it had done months earlier . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the designer has integrated them in the text , and while this might be admirable for coffee table books or even guide books , it is quite wrong here as it makes them look cramped and mean . |
| 6 | Yet it was as impossible now as it had always been , and she groaned . |
| 7 | On the other hand , neither did the faithful military figure so much here as it did in the political activities of the Smolensk party organization . |
| 8 | ‘ Reality is bendy enough as it stands , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ Indeed the working relationship between the two is as good now as it has ever been . ’ |
| 10 | Then it ran , dodging between sandy hillocks , black-tipped tail undulating behind as it attempted to escape the constant buzzing of irate birds . |
| 11 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 12 | Linigan 's goal later left the forlorn Chris Waddle and his Wednesday mates in tears as Wembley became a sea of red-and-white just as it had been after the same Coca-Cola Cup scoreline a month earlier . |
| 13 | Copy bar ten precisely as it 's given in the book . |
| 14 | The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions , for example , remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 16 | ‘ Thanks , Belinda , ’ he said solemnly , trying to eat the fluffly mass even as it began to darken and stick to his fingers . |
| 17 | The British Minister for Sport , Hector Monro , pointed out that the Gleneagles agreement was irrelevant here as it made no reference to actions by one country against the nationals of another , but on 26 February the British High Commissioner in Georgetown was notified that Jackman 's visitor 's permit had been withdrawn and he must leave the country . |
| 18 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 19 | He was very canny actually as it happened ! |