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

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1 In the past month , Malawi 's embryonic pro-democracy movement has seen its hopes rise and almost immediately fall , much as those of Iraq 's Kurds did last year .
2 He also said that the Prince and Princess of Wales would not make a planned visit to China in November ‘ so long as those responsible for the atrocities over the past weekend remain in control of the Chinese government ’ .
3 " Popular power " and " government by the people " are not , I would suggest , vacuous slogans , but it is easy for critics and sceptics to dismiss them as mere rhetoric so long as those who use them fail to specify what they imply , in practice and in some detail .
4 On the other hand , we can not say that people are making up their minds for themselves so long as they are largely unaware of the influences that are playing upon them , and so long as those influences are not essentially diverse and competitive , but generally combine to push their thinking , their attitudes and feelings in a single direction .
5 What we were saying is that so long as those with parental responsibilities consent to J. being treated by the medical staff of the health authority , he must be treated in accordance with their clinical judgment .
6 It was at first , through proximity , an extended family whose members were as strongly bound together as those who live within the nuclear structure .
7 In this sense the elements of a people 's ‘ real ’ universe can be ‘ turned upside down ’ as easily as those of its linguistic universe , since their apprehension of both stem from the same fundamental principles of thought and meaning construction .
8 Unless we can get professional managers who are as good entrepreneurially as those who set up for themselves we shall have major problems ahead .
9 Just as those benefiting from new jobs have come mostly from outside the Docklands the markets for private housing in Docklands are not local either .
10 Certainly , it seems reasonable to assume that individuals whose temperamental make-up is more ‘ psychotic ’ , and who therefore have a greater predisposition to psychosis , will be in greatest danger of passing over the threshold into overt illness , just as those of anxious temperament are more likely to develop an anxiety neurosis , and persons whose blood pressure is more labile will carry an enhanced risk of heart attack or stroke .
11 And he held the elements of mental propositions to be ideas , just as those of verbal propositions are words .
12 redeploying some of their skills — over and above applying them in work with failing , disheartened or work-refusing children — for working with fellow professionals whose expectations may likewise be in conflict with those of the would-be supporter , just as those of work-refusing children tend to be in conflict with those of their teachers .
13 We are sure that just as those Members ' performance in the Committee will be noted , so their performance in the House today will be noted .
14 Stok 's face had gone rigid and he did n't look like himself , just as those mathematically accurate waxworks never look like the people they portray .
15 So the posts that are to be established and to be filled are exactly as those approved by the Policy Committee .
16 We intend to place the order as soon as those negotiations have been satisfactorily concluded .
17 The bewitchment , if any , had evaporated as soon as those black eyes had extinguished that first interested glance and substituted it for one of rampant dislike .
18 ‘ There are 11 players who can not wait to get this game started and as soon as those Scotland jerseys are pulled over our heads the dream of playing against the world champions will give way to proving individual worth , ’ said Robertson .
19 As soon as those are published , employers are put on notice that there are steps they really ought to be taking .
20 This environment is far worse for lichen growth than any known in the Arctic and if we conservatively assume that the Antarctic lichens grow only half as quickly as those in the north , the former with a present diameter of 100 mm must be easily 10 000 years old and perhaps considerably older .
21 MAFF classifies part-time farms arbitrarily as those requiring less than 250 standard man days ( smd ) work per annum , even though many of them in reality are full time , providing the sole income of the farmer .
22 These males entered the pool as they reached it and were soon calling as lustily as those first there .
23 Unattended and unrepresented claimants ' appeals did not appear to be tested as carefully as those of attended and represented claimants .
24 The earliest industrial sites are now often looked after as carefully as those of abbeys and castles .
25 The interactions between modifying enzymes and tRNAs have not yet been characterized as extensively as those between tRNA and aminoacyl-tRNA-synthetases ( 4 ) .
26 There at least they would not have to see and hear the effect of the blows as clearly as those in front .
27 Uta Maier-Maercker and Wolfgang Koch , of the Centre for Botanical Research in Munich , studied spruce trees and found that when exposed to ozone their stomata , the pores on the leaves through which water evaporates , did not open or close as efficiently as those of unexposed trees .
28 Debris and tiny bodies circled like a halo of scurf , brightening periodically as those metal shards and corpses tilted to catch the sunlight of space …
29 The matters that have been highlighted in this report are as relevant now as those which necessitated the formings of the nineteen seventy eight and nineteen ninety congress resolutions .
30 As far as those artists go you must ask in each case what proportion of their careers were actually spent here and did their stay in America fundamentally affect their work ?
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