Example sentences of "[adv] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , therefore , to some degree the older generation attacking the younger , much as an eighteenth century minister might have attacked the political involvement by ministers in the 1830s and 1840s when they refused to pay Church Rates and supported the Rev. Edward Miall 's British Anti-State Church Association . |
| 2 | Let us say that in the first place man is a creature responding intelligently or stupidly to his surroundings , much as an animal does . |
| 3 | However , in the non-thermonuclear fusion process above , a neutron emitted in the direction of the moving deuteron will have a higher energy than one emitted in the opposite direction , much as an object thrown from a moving vehicle travels faster when thrown forwards . |
| 4 | The Netherlands allows the centre to carry on supporting , preparatory or auxiliary activities , which is more flexible , at least in principle , and the centre can take on commercial risks so long as an increased mark-up is agreed . |
| 5 | So long as an apparatchik continued to be invited to join the Ceauşescus at play , even the ceaseless rotation of offices could not disguise his continuing status as one of the leaders . |
| 6 | Of course , this does not rule out the use of naturalistic facts so long as an objective notion of validity is employed — the validity of inductive inference could turn on features of the context in which it is carried out , or the perceptual apparatus of the reasoner . |
| 7 | After a 16-year ban , shops will now be allowed to display English ( or Italian or other language ) signs outside , so long as an accompanying French sign is ‘ markedly predominant ’ — that is , twice as big . |
| 8 | The average working week of housewiv es in this sample is seventy-seven hours — almost twice as long as an industrial working week of forty hours . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , both Weber and the interactionists did think it was possible to produce causal explanations of human behaviour so long as an understanding of meanings formed part of those explanations . |
| 10 | So long as an account 's written down somewhere , no one 's going to fuss about the details . |
| 11 | It may take as long as an hour to return to port . |
| 12 | But she found that background sound levels at New York 's J. F. Kennedy international airport are 51–98 decibels — nearly as loud as an approaching aircraft ( Environmental Pollution . |
| 13 | A publisher can collect that money just as easily as an artist , but a publishing company has the resources to offer the artist effective promotion services . |
| 14 | Saying that he ought to be able to get through a closed door as easily as an open one , Swift is supposed to have left him standing on the doorstep . |
| 15 | He read a great deal as a child and later said that he read Euclid as easily as an adult reads a novel . |
| 16 | And she went into it out of real idealism , not just as an ego trip to prove oneself to one 's dead father — ’ |
| 17 | He argues that this activity should be seen , not just as an expression of poverty , but as a cause of it . |
| 18 | Miller and Swift do not point out the important fact that conservatives care for language in itself , and not just as an indicator of social mores . |
| 19 | Sigmar 's name can be used in any context , not just as an appeal for aid . |
| 20 | But it also sustains an idea of the feminist , not just as an individual , autonomous subject , but also as a subject defined by her relationship to others , who is differently defined in different contexts , and who has no fixed boundaries . |
| 21 | It is essential but not enough to postulate that an object-topic , if it is to qualify as existing in the modus per se , i.e. in its own right and not just as an object of thought , must be a subject , at any given time , of a non-arbitrary set of predicates . |
| 22 | Eliot that ‘ to divert interest from the poet to the poetry is a laudable aim ’ ( 1972 : 22 ) , but that agreement is expressed in their work as a theoretical system and not just as an intellectual preference . |
| 23 | This chapter will discuss the usefulness of the graph-search approach , not just as an analytical tool to be used after the fact , but also as a practical tool to be used in the development of a speech understanding system . |
| 24 | The to infinitive here asserts an occurrence not just as an attested fact but as a significant fact , something which tells one about the character of the subject . |
| 25 | What I 'm going to ask you to then folks Lynne and Marion use one of Alison 's just as an form . |
| 26 | As soon as an injunction was sought , newspapers faced large legal bills , he said . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , as soon as an attempt is made to measure ‘ performance ’ , a whole series of problems arises . |
| 28 | As Radin stressed in his discussion of the thought of primitive man , ‘ as soon as an object is regarded as a dynamic entity , then analysis and definition become both difficult and unsatisfactory . |
| 29 | The young of many species take cover as soon as an alarm call is given . |
| 30 | As soon as an adventurer enters the Tower , a secret WP test should be made . |