Example sentences of "[noun sg] as easily as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You should aim to be using video in the classroom as easily as you use the audiocassette recorder or the Overhead Projector . |
| 3 | Despite the elegance , it was a completely masculine presence , and he dominated the room as easily as he had his own office . |
| 4 | But advertising is itself extremely volatile and profits could take a dive as easily as they could soar . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They loved stories that tripped off her tongue as easily as other women talked about waiting in the check-out queue at Tescos . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He held my wrists in one hand as easily as a bunch of flowers and I was pinned beneath his bulk . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | At one time the two water companies were in active competition and any person paying the rates , whether landlord or tenant , could change his water company as easily as his butcher or baker … although this state of things has long since ceased , and the companies have come to an arrangement so that the people can not now change their supply , all the same , the result of their earlier competition remains . |
| 16 | ‘ Certainly , ma'am , ’ agreed the lawyer , relieved to have accomplished his task as easily as this . |
| 17 | In fact there appears to be no doubt that Stalin simply resented the independence that the Yugoslav leaders were displaying and believed they could be brought to heel as easily as communist leaders in other parts of Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | A tech could be their target as easily as a scumnik . |