Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Taking your point that chemistry at university is a privileged subject in so far as that the equipment available is more sophisticated , more expense , more accurate , possibly , surely universities ought to be doing something to help kids in schools ? |
2 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
3 | It is not even as though the Government have adhered to their own reasons for refusing to act on this in the past . |
4 | She was not smiling now , but her look was full of a benevolent curiosity , and the soft island voice , with the lilt of the Gaelic moving through it like a gentle sea-swell , warmed me as palpably as if the sun had come into the dim and cluttered little shop . |
5 | Well , even then , not knowing Goreng and with two toes blown off as cleanly as if the surgeon 's knife had done the job , a mangled calf , and shrapnel resident two centimetres from the balls , I could recognise Martinho had played a masterly hand . |
6 | The evening was dropping like velvet and the lagoon was fading to a deep dusky richness in which the curving palms were reflected as cleanly as though the water were a dark-silvered looking-glass . |
7 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |
8 | And then fourthly , more and more the orthodox churches placed , played a very significant part in guiding the port of as far as as the assembly was concerned . |
9 | When she opened them again , Fincara was there , as silently as if the blackness had merely thickened into shape . |
10 | He strained to conjure up her face and her voice , but they had vanished , as completely as though the memory had been cut out of his brain . |
11 | If they all have the same score then the decision to carry just one forward is arbitrary , or they must all be carried forward just as though a tree were being searched . |