Example sentences of "[noun] as easily as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Powerful , calloused , sunburnt , they could have twisted the white swan neck of Lady Eleanor as easily as a twig . |
| 2 | If only Messrs Cook could guarantee a benefit to mind and manners as easily as they can guarantee a comfortable journey ! |
| 3 | First , it is to assist people to resolve their disputes as easily as possible and , secondly , it should enable the making or declaring of law that applies in those disputes . |
| 4 | He could command her responses as easily as though he held her in thrall , and that made her more than a little afraid . |
| 5 | A tap is turned , a pressure of 120 pounds per square inch applied to the piston , and up goes the end of the coach as easily as though it were a doll 's house . |
| 6 | Even as she struggled he was lifting her clear off her feet as easily as though she were made of thistledown . |
| 7 | You should aim to be using video in the classroom as easily as you use the audiocassette recorder or the Overhead Projector . |
| 8 | He read a great deal as a child and later said that he read Euclid as easily as an adult reads a novel . |
| 9 | Despite the elegance , it was a completely masculine presence , and he dominated the room as easily as he had his own office . |
| 10 | I wonder if I will get away with things as easily as I have on other serious falls and I wonder what it will feel like at the bottom . |
| 11 | The contents of the same CD-I disc can be displayed in NTSC as easily as in PAL or SECAM . |
| 12 | Gradually , these gaps are being filled , with the aim of allowing clients to conduct ‘ open account ’ trading with export customers as easily as they now do with domestic ones . |
| 13 | No way was she falling in with his plans as easily as that ! |
| 14 | But advertising is itself extremely volatile and profits could take a dive as easily as they could soar . |
| 15 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 16 | They loved stories that tripped off her tongue as easily as other women talked about waiting in the check-out queue at Tescos . |
| 17 | He led the way into the next field , a pasture : and here they all fell to feeding , nibbling their way over the grass as easily as though their warren were close by . |
| 18 | If you can live with the slightly awkward depth adjuster , the motor/blade combination makes this a saw which will cut through hard and softwood as easily as a knife through butter . |
| 19 | Up in the balcony Jock Lennox applauded , and some of Rafferty 's regulars laughed as Paddy gathered the little child up in his arms as easily as his heavy vestments would allow him . |
| 20 | He slipped into her squelching hole as easily as a knife into butter : and she moaned blissfully when she felt herself well and truly corked . |
| 21 | I never made more friends as easily as when I was among people whose language I spoke badly and who barely spoke mine at all . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He held my wrists in one hand as easily as a bunch of flowers and I was pinned beneath his bulk . |
| 24 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 25 | I have never experienced an aggressive or bullying rasbora of any species , and they mix well in the peaceful community aquarium , swimming alongside companions from the other side of the world as easily as they integrate with their natural South East Asian cohabitants . |
| 26 | You ca n't take a substantial break and expect to get back to your best form as easily as when you were , say , 20 . ’ |
| 27 | While George Boon rejected the suggestion that the very small coins were votive objects and may thus be found in some quantity on temple sites , he sensibly adds that there could have been a tendency for poor quality coins ‘ to gravitate to these shrines as easily as to the offertory of a country church ’ . |
| 28 | We may not be able to digest foods as easily as we once could . |
| 29 | However , despite my aim to provide flexibility in structure , the HyperCard still imposes a primary organizational structure and it may be difficult to extract information that has no relation to the original structure imposed by the author Nevertheless , some links have been made between tutorials which cut across the primary categorization and users are able to move between different sections as easily as moving within sections . |
| 30 | PETER SCUDAMORE , who breaks records as easily as a psychotic disc jockey , was at it again yesterday , shattering his own mark for the fastest 50 winners by a National Hunt jockey when he rode In-Keeping to an easy victory at Wincanton . |