Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He must make the switch from half-baked seducer to ruthless interrogator as brutally as possible .
2 According to British observers , rules were altered occasionally in mid-flight with protests from the French flying as thickly as English arrows at Agincourt .
3 Furthermore as nationalised industries were intended to operate in the ‘ national interest ’ , it was claimed that this should lead to improved industrial relations , as the strife between labour and capital , associated with capitalist ownership , was reduced .
4 Of course , road accidents and pedestrian tumbles would also increase alarmingly as wind-blown polymer dust spread round the locality .
5 At the root of his lifestyle was pots of money , treated almost entirely as disposable income , given that he still lived with his parents .
6 Sparks flew from his eyes that were suddenly as black and threatening as thunder .
7 He shook his head , unperturbed it seemed , not in the least put out yet altogether immovable , a man whose quiet strength struck Daniel suddenly as impressive , a steadily burning , dogged persistence which would be likely to endure far longer than his own vivid bursts of fire .
8 Daily life continued much as normal .
9 The show has , he said , ‘ something of the air of a school reunion about it ’ , and with a few exceptions ‘ it is the Pound business much as usual ’ .
10 ‘ Oh much as usual .
11 On entering the well-guarded but comfortable apartments occupied by the princes , Joan and Alianor were greeted by Prince Richard who looked , Joan noticed with relief , much as usual .
12 True , on the first working day after the bomb , business did go on much as usual .
13 True , Novell seems to be promising that life will go on much as usual .
14 In the shops things were much as usual because wholesalers and suppliers were still using existing stocks .
15 ‘ Would you say that Glynn was much as usual ? ’
16 ‘ Oh , much as usual .
17 speaking as much as possible like a native speaker
18 Er establish trust much as possible and involve er and try and get involved yourself if you can in any way to er show that you 're , you understand the task that they 're doing .
19 It is true , of course , that most Victorian parents regarded acquaintance with death as an integral part of the school of experience , much as modern parents look upon sex education .
20 Feminist psychologists tend to see the significance of gender differences much as conventional psychologists do .
21 Classical acting is really quite a recent thing for me so it 's a case of speaking the verse as naturally as possible but observing it ‘ s rhythms and structure .
22 The only reason I like to use the lightest line possible is so that my tackle , and consequently the bait , will behave as naturally as possible .
23 Write the word clearly ( not in capital letters ) , and record your voice on the card saying it as naturally as possible .
24 The packages I 've looked at should , in different degrees , allow you to draw or paint as naturally as possible with a mouse .
25 As well as starch , carbohydrate can occur naturally as simple sugars .
26 Thomas lies as naturally as other men breathe , if he told truth he would be untrue to himself .
27 Apparently as long as I get it on a P C disk , five inch
28 Such styles , as we have seen , are apparently as pervasive a feature of US high school teaching as of life in British secondary schools .
29 The hardships we are suffering in the recession are nothing compared to the hell of the Bosnian detention camps , and if we can not find the cash to help what amounts to very few of them then we are morally as well as economically bankrupt .
30 At one end of the spectrum of opinion were xenophobic seclusionists who argued that relations with foreigners would be morally as well as politically disastrous .
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