Example sentences of "as [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she and the president can set about hacking away as vigorously at the wasteful government machine as they have at the sheltered private sector . |
| 2 | Arthur admits that , while he is not ill , he has noticed how he has ‘ good days and bad days ’ , probably due as much to the extra medication he now has to take , as the virus itself . |
| 3 | Its population has doubled in the past ten years and will double again in the next ten ; its growth is due as much to the constant influx of newcomers from the Nile villages as to Egypt 's birth-rate . |
| 4 | She was already feeling faint , as much from the stale heat of the attic room as for any other reason . |
| 5 | Denis recoiled , as much from the sudden flood of talk as from the sandwiches which were now almost under his nose . |
| 6 | Laura was astounded , as much by the cynical scorn in his voice as by his words . |
| 7 | Yet not only could such a rearrangement be brought about , with the will to do so , but it might come to be seen as greatly to the general advantage of the school . |
| 8 | As late as 1960 all of the ‘ officers ’ , as the Lord Chancellor 's legal staff were known , not officials as elsewhere in the civil service , were able to sit around a not particularly large octagonal table in the Permanent Secretary 's room at his fortnightly office meetings . |
| 9 | Even as early in the ministerial crisis as that Sunday morning , the King needed no prompting on what his course should be . |
| 10 | Social class inequalities , however , remain as strong as ever despite the enormous growth in education provision and expenditure . |
| 11 | Now , as she hurried into the dimly lit tunnel to the ground-floor area where they all parked their cars , she quickened her pace , uneasy as always about the poor lighting and the feeling of being cut off if she should need help . |
| 12 | No , we have done the same thing as before with the only difference that we calculated the potential instead of the electric field . |
| 13 | On Bonaire all three seats were won by the Bonaire Patriotic Union ( Union Patriotico Bonairiano — UPB — one in 1985 ) ; on St Maarten the Democratic Party of St Maarten ( DP-SM ) won two seats ( three in 1985 ) and the Patriotic Alliance won one , entering parliament for the first time ; on Saba the single seat went as before to the Windward Islands People 's Movement ( WIPM — not the West Indian People 's Movement as given on p. 36212 ) ; and on St Eustatius the single seat went as before to the Democratic Party of St Eustatius ( DP-SE ) . |
| 14 | Such generosity was at the expense of the Greek cities of the coast , and helps to explain why they revolted from Persia again in 479 ( Hdt. ix.105 , treating their adhesion to the new Delian League as a second ‘ Ionian Revolt ’ ) , as before in the Ionian Revolt of 499 . |
| 15 | Names were written by the figures in the wall-paintings , as often on the black ground of the vases ; another example of the hesitancy with which the creators of this revolution approached the idea of the illusion of depth . |
| 16 | And you can use you could use past that erm cos that 's the other thing I have n't shown you , is , is this is all ours as well down the bottom end . |
| 17 | So the priest addresses God Wherefore also we thy servants , O Lord , and also thy holy people , in memory as well of the blessed passion of the same Christ , thy Son , our Lord , as of his resurrection from the dead , and also of his glorious ascension into the heavens do offer unto thy excellent majesty , of thine own gifts albeit given unto us , a pure , a holy , an undefiled sacrifice , the holy bread of eternal life , and the cup of everlasting salvation . |
| 18 | The Company got on as well with the local population as any European settlers anywhere in the world , but it was very exposed to attacks from New France . |
| 19 | All this may throw light as well on the diachronic evolution both of the non-past indicative and of the infinitive . |
| 20 | There had been anger as well at the cruel jest of fate that had brought her into love with her own brother . |
| 21 | Now the new league system has come through as well in the closed season . |
| 22 | I conclude that after a short interregnum , which they have richly deserved and when the full regime of paid helpers may be set up , they will revert to taking an active part in the physical care of the plaintiff as well in the mental care in which they will have remained ever present . |
| 23 | And so it was envisaged that the former coaling and oiling stations of Gibraltar , Malta , Port Said , Suez , Aden , Bombay , Colombo , Penang , Singapore and Hong Kong would become air staging posts as well in the post-imperial era . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , all I can say is that there is a whole lot of bloody sheep as symbols as well in the Christian religion , ’ said Alison as she packed up her ‘ baroque ’ fiddle . |
| 25 | As he completed a ruthless second-round knockout of Canada 's Donovan ‘ Razor ’ Ruddock in the early hours of yesterday , Lewis was clasped as readily to the purist breast of those seeking the lesser spotted boxer-puncher as refuge-seeking patriots . |
| 26 | These weighed as heavily in the social balance as the areas of social tension like Galicia . |
| 27 | No goals as yet in the other game in group A against Charlton although as I warned you earlier , I do n't think we 'll have that score for you tonight because it is being played in Italy and er our chances of getting that score through the er computer here are remote to put it mildly . |