Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With pots you can change the effect as often as you like . |
| 2 | ‘ Chest pain , sudden onset as far as I know , collapse — she 's now arrhythmic , possibly fibrillating . ’ |
| 3 | I had a lesson with him and he told me that if I squeezed my knees together I would slow down my bottom half and be able to release the club as hard as I wanted to . |
| 4 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 5 | One might be tempted to argue that the photon is absorbed by the microscope and that by measuring the latter 's consequent recoil , due to acquiring the photon 's momentum after its collision with the electron , we could evaluate this momentum as accurately as we wished . |
| 6 | She crouched at the firebox , shooting the wood into its mouth as quickly as it came , then cowered back from the sudden heat as the blaze was roused again . |
| 7 | Go to the lavatory as often as you need to , do n't try to ‘ hold it in ’ . |
| 8 | You must think yourselves lucky to be able to go to Thrush Green as often as you do . ’ |
| 9 | Is it that they do not exert themselves enough ( we know that the English work as quickly as they work well ) ? |
| 10 | Knowing the cat as well as she did , Mildred could see that , despite its size , it was frightened out of its wits . |
| 11 | The BBC believe that no one does sport as well as they do — and they may be right . |
| 12 | Down the pub as often as you want with all the fellers — ’ |
| 13 | Erm certainly on the rescue tenders , erm erm on , on each division would have that equipment , it 's not carried on every fire engine as far as I know now , erm I , I do n't see why it should n't but er again I think it 's a matter of cost , and , and carrying it about as well and finding the space for it , but certainly it 's at hand when it 's needed . |
| 14 | WAITERS dash to and fro replenishing baskets of crusty bread as often as you like — a sure sign of a good French brasserie . |
| 15 | But a great man , a potens , in Charles 's kingdom could quit the scene as completely as he had momentarily seemed to dominate it : if he died leaving only young sons , or no sons at all , or if he moved to another Carolingian kingdom , Charles might redistribute his honores as he put it , voluntarie — " in accordance with my will " . |
| 16 | But when you 're a £2.5m striker who 's living up to his price-tag as spectacularly as he has done , there are always going to be people out to bring you down a peg or two . |
| 17 | Stamford have given me a list of local McCloys and there again not a sniff as far as they know . |
| 18 | Shearer took the ribbing as philosophically as he took the tackles , then assured anxious witnesses the goals would return . |
| 19 | You may think I am exaggerating but I am telling you the truth as clearly as I remember it and I remember it very clearly . |
| 20 | With their bizarre appearance and seemingly mysterious but treacherous way of life , the dodders have certainly latched on to human imagination as successfully as they do to the innumerable species of plants they parasitise , spawning fables , myths and fascinating names such as love vine , immortal vine , vine in the sky , beggar vine , strangleweed , devil 's gut , scald and so on . |
| 21 | Sir , I have been with my master for twenty years and I know his appearance as well as I know my own . |
| 22 | You should aim to be using video in the classroom as easily as you use the audiocassette recorder or the Overhead Projector . |
| 23 | There 's a lot of competition to get your space , specially with the Latins ; they 're not used to a woman doing the same job as well as they do . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't think Hugo or Georgina would do the job as well as you do . |
| 25 | Peta and Isobel fell in love with the place as surely as we have and they , like us , concentrated on the commonplace . |
| 26 | Men like him were born with charm , exuded sensuality as unthinkingly as they breathed in air . |
| 27 | On the motorways no problems at the moment as far as we know . |
| 28 | Despite the elegance , it was a completely masculine presence , and he dominated the room as easily as he had his own office . |
| 29 | Of course , we can in theory expand the business as fast as we like , but even a major player like Sainsbury 's has n't got an infinite supply of skilled bakers and bakery managers on hand . |
| 30 | We now know the Moon 's surface as well as we know the Earth 's . |