Example sentences of "[adv] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , all night , ’ she confirmed tauntingly as realisation tightened his features . |
| 2 | Furthermore as authority for his departure from Diplock LJ 's judgment , Lord Denning relied on dicta of their Lordships in Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 which are of doubtful support . |
| 3 | The budget deficit is rising alarmingly as recession cuts revenues and drives up unemployment . |
| 4 | Rory reflected gloomily as Candy sat down again , her momentary anger placated . |
| 5 | And the word ‘ property ’ must be taken literally as ownership or , as we say today , private property . |
| 6 | Liquids on the other hand flow if subjected to a stress ; they do not store the energy but dissipate it almost entirely as heat and thus possess high damping characteristics . |
| 7 | Then , as suddenly as lightning streaks through the sky , they 'd disbanded , scrabbled for their ropes and karasos and disappeared , shrieking , into the forest . |
| 8 | If you do n't , the boat could stop suddenly as fuel dries up , owing to the vacuum created in the tank . |
| 9 | The grains will be chewy , much as pasta should be al dente ; it will be without lumps ; and it will be fragrant . |
| 10 | Much as poetry was becoming a part of him , his most natural form of self-expression , and the one that reached him first , was music ; side-by-side they were to advance with him throughout his developing days and early professional life . |
| 11 | Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines . |
| 12 | QED pictures electrically-charged particles , such as electrons , interacting by exchanging photons , much as rugby players interact by passing a ball between each other . |
| 13 | Instead , it flashes across between them , coming ‘ vertically from above ’ , and leaving behind only the marks of its passing , much as lightning scorches the earth where it strikes . |
| 14 | Few attempts have been made to set these earliest of monuments into any sort of context , but stimulating ideas of their contemporary landscapes have been proposed both by Colin Renfrew , who has argued that the tombs belonged to groups and therefore represent ‘ territories ’ , very much as the medieval church related to parish communities , and Graeme Barker and Derrick Webley , who have argued for the inhabitants of causewayed enclosures exploiting a variety of different landscapes , much as Bronze Age and later Iron Age communities did . |
| 15 | Mainframe and minicomputers have data storage facilities which are remote from the majority of suppliers and users of the data They can be stored on magnetic material , often in the form of tape ( much as music can be held on magnetic tape ) These tapes are held centrally and are frequently accessible to many users . |
| 16 | Much as technology seems to gather pace with the development of more and more sophisticated equipment so do the methods employed by the many users . |
| 17 | I 'm the same , erm , I spend as much as time driving as I do sitting in stock |
| 18 | Dodgy lending to developing countries loomed over banks in the mid-1980s much as property loans do now . |
| 19 | Private worlds , whether they are families or voluntary societies , turn out to be delusory sources of personal freedom : disillusionment and hopelessness follow behind the many human philosophies and religious ideas that modern men and women discard as carelessly as consumer toys . |
| 20 | Blanche sniffed unhappily as cigarette smoke drifted across from a table on the other side of the room occupied by a raucous group of maintenance men in boiler suits . |
| 21 | This was certainly brought home to me when , by taking the long way round Australia this year , i.e. buying a round the world ticket to the Australian Open , rather than a straight forward London–Melbourne return , with a stop-off in Sydney for the New South Wales Open , I saved The Daily Telegraph , which is naturally as cost conscious as any other company in these difficult financial times , a considerable amount of money . |
| 22 | 1982 , Academic Press ) , the deposits making up the platforms there accumulated naturally as sea levels gradually rose between about 4000 and 2500 years ago . |
| 23 | It followed as naturally as night followed day that he should now be punished for it . |
| 24 | Thus Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia , walking in a garden with McFarlane , could hear — naturally as birdsong — that the contras needed $1m a month ; he could pass the word to his uncle , the King ; the King could give the money ; and Reagan would release the Stinger anti-aircraft missiles needed by Saudi Arabia , not in explicit exchange ( nothing so crude ) , but as a reciprocal gesture of princely generosity . |
| 25 | Would Poems came as naturally as Silk Thread . |
| 26 | as naturally as breath and dreamt them up , |
| 27 | So long as selection policies did not come under scrutiny this was acceptable . |
| 28 | There seemed no hope of removing the National Government so long as division continued . " |
| 29 | And of his views in the 1840s he wrote : " We were now much less democrats than I had been , because so long as education continues to be so wretchedly imperfect , we dreaded the ignorance and especially the selfishness and brutality of the mass … " ( p. 138 ) |
| 30 | Masculinity can be problematized , even feminized , so long as homosexuality remains as its defining other . |