Example sentences of "[adv] as surely as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed they could win votes in Sunderland just as surely as in Mid-Sussex . |
| 2 | But all regimes must end , just as surely as we will die : though we do n't like to face it , any more than we like to face death . |
| 3 | Protectionist policies , designed to deal with unemployment , temporarily ended the rule of the Conservative Party at the end of 1923 just as surely as it helped the Conservative Party to political dominance in the 1930s . |
| 4 | Gases are offensive , smells are offensive , grit and dust penetrate houses just as surely as toxic vapours and car fumes . |
| 5 | The great agricultural revolution of our own times , in which drainage has played no small part , has accelerated the decline of the small farmer just as surely as it has imperilled the ecological system previously sustained by communal wetland management ; and , at the last , it has begun to destroy the basic resources of the land , as ever deeper drainage has created mineral problems in the soil , wastage of peat , and an increasing dependence upon pumping . |
| 6 | A firm conviction of the truth of all this , secure in the minds of the parents by the time the child is born , is the best insurance that the process will start with birth just as surely as does the process of feeding . |
| 7 | Yet life is a dream-metaphor , which we create just as surely as we create our dreams — and our Higher Self will often communicate through ‘ mundane ’ everyday events . |
| 8 | Hilton clearly attached great importance to this apostolate : he tells his nun that she will meet God in her visitors just as surely as in the solitude of her cell . |
| 9 | ‘ He killed Robin just as surely as he murdered Marion . |
| 10 | The last author commented ‘ increasing numbers of Americans have become aware that crime exists in the suites of many corporations just as surely as it exists in the streets of their cities and suburbs ’ . |
| 11 | Total repression of conflict leads to anarchy just as surely as does total conflict' ( ibid. xii ) . |
| 12 | If it does the alternative of a statutory limit on hours of work similar to that proposed by the European Commission would destroy any semblance of manpower control just as surely as Field 's proposals . |
| 13 | As Oonagh Toffolo , who once nursed the Duke of Windsor and regularly visits Diana for sessions of acupuncture and meditation , observes : ‘ She is a prisoner of the system just as surely as any woman incarcerated in Holloway jail . ’ |
| 14 | It would take a musical analysis to find out whether the offerings to which these two extremes respond are really worlds apart ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 13 ) , we know that the question implied in the final sentence has already been answered in his own mind , just as surely as we know that he has not done the musical analysis but simply conflated Elvis and … whom ? |
| 15 | And yet … there had been a moment when Dane 's undeniable magnetism had reached out to her , too , ensnaring her in its thrall just as surely as it captured every other female . |
| 16 | The battery in your readers equipment could be a NiCad and it would be ruined if he had left it on , just as surely as if it had been a lead acid battery . |
| 17 | We want our system , just as surely as France and Germany want to be free to enjoy their systems . |
| 18 | Telling him would be a mistake , she knew that , just as surely as she knew he would never tell her what he really felt , but she knew . |
| 19 | Just as surely as , Jesus had an interview with Pilate in the judgement hall so now he has an interview with you and with me . |
| 20 | The dance music is both fiery and resilient , and the mystic landscape of the famous epilogue so tantalisingly evoked that value judgements fade away as surely as the music 's vision itself . |
| 21 | And if a few romantics mutter against the ‘ satanic mills ’ , despoliation of the countryside and pollution of the skies from the factory chimneys , the machine shunts them aside as surely as it repulses those Luddites who would shut down its engines if they only knew how . |
| 22 | But Wyatt 's death , almost as surely as the destruction of the starship , The New Hope , had brought about the War that followed . |