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

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1 JR was suspicious by nature , and even more so when figures came together as easily as this .
2 We could slide together as easily as a train halts by the platform .
3 Erm but , but they 're an easy target to go for as opposed to , I mean Mao could e perhaps as easily as argued , saying you know commercialization is not the way forward , erm and we do n't want greater interaction with the world economy erm as opposed to saying , you know , overthrow the local landlords .
4 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 .
5 Bath had a good long look at the videos and soon saw that little variations of this move could break opposition defences just as easily as the blasting back-row scrum moves with which Australia had devastated England when they so mistakenly toured Australia last year .
6 MOREOVER , individual examples of bias , such as the one I detected when Paddy Ashdown was allowed to get away with the ridiculous notion that he might do a deal with John Major just as easily as with Neil Kinnock , need to be balanced against the election coverage as a whole .
7 There is no doubt that their super-sensitive barbules detect our lines just as easily as they detect food , but , fortunately for us , they usually accept our offerings in spite of the obvious danger they have felt , though the same danger compels them to take the bait ‘ hit-and-run ’ style .
8 Of course , if you want to perform with it then you can mike it up just as easily as any other guitar , but it 's really a player 's instrument — a guitar for the kitchen , if you like .
9 Once airborne , the technique of control comes just as easily as riding the proverbial bicycle … until that is , you fall off !
10 And it has a sonar location and detection system that can pick up a sunken object at the bottom of the ocean just as easily as it can pinpoint a lurking submarine .
11 Cannons can be used to pound the enemy as you advance just as easily as they can blow holes in oncoming enemy formations .
12 Media companies may operate tacit or explicit collusion just as easily as politicians .
13 Moreover , to compete successfully against Microsoft Corp 's NT , users must be assured that applications will run under one version of Unix just as easily as another .
14 Maybe it was a compliment , their assumption that we could find our way down just as easily as they could .
15 Elizabeth had been amazed to see workmen slicing through stone blocks with hand-axes , just as easily as cutting butter .
16 All enquiries , whether ad hoc or by standard program , can be made of the accumulated file of past students just as easily as of the file of current students .
17 He knew that he looked like an ox , but that counted for nothing ; an ox could drop in its tracks just as easily as anything else .
18 Received faxes are handled just as easily as well .
19 British Rail asserts , and the hon. Member for Keighley said so again tonight , that in physical terms the planned exit of the lines from King 's Cross at the south-eastern corner of the new proposed station is such that lines could go to Stratford just as easily as they could have gone southwards .
20 However , if prisoners are at risk of sentence under the Public Order Act 1986 , the pack of information can explain that just as easily as it can explain the contents of this miserable and irrelevant little Bill .
21 If the sun is shining the focal length can be measured just as easily as for a converging lens : the lens is held so that its shadow falls on a sheet of paper .
22 She knew what this man was , knew he was capable of raiding hearts just as easily as nightclubs , yet here she was all but melting away because he 'd touched her !
23 She poured their tea and sat with a cup of her own by the fire , chatting away as easily as she did every morning .
24 It came away as easily as a dead treebranch .
25 More important than that ( for medieval village buildings could have been swept away as easily as the Romans had swept away the native British buildings for their planned towns ) — a variety of ownerships and rights had grown up that precluded a unified plan even as early as the twelfth or thirteenth century .
26 She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her .
27 Of course you could try a tantalising headline but do remember that in the first instance you have to attract the attention and interest of the journalist or editor , who is not going to be tempted quite as easily as the reader might be .
28 Thacker enjoyed the entertainment for a full forty seconds , then stooped and pulled them apart as easily as if they were two bits of cotton fluff stuck together .
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