Example sentences of "[adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fingers slipped between her thighs as she parted them as eagerly as a girl whose lover had returned from the wars . |
| 2 | The paintings are now hung in two registers on the walls , although not as thickly as a century or more ago . |
| 3 | It is a mere auxiliary verb , a syntactical instrument enabling us to specify what philosophers sometimes used to call the " essence " or " quiddity " of a thing ; the verb esse , to be , acting in such cases literally as a pointer towards essentia . |
| 4 | In this way , the original small nucleus of people grows by adding people to it in stages , much as a snowball can be built up by rolling it along the snow on the ground ( e.g. Plant 1975 ; Mars 1982 ) . |
| 5 | He was opening and shutting his mouth and licking his lips , much as a cat does when something disgusts it . |
| 6 | The writer said , in effect , " Here is my Horace " , and the reader responded , in effect , " This is/is not the Horace that I know " , appraising the performance from the heart as well as the mind , much as a listener might appraise the rendering of a familiar musical work . |
| 7 | This is when the bream are feeding very confidently , usually on maggots which they are picking up directly from the bottom , much as a chicken picks up corn one grain after another without having to move too far to do it . |
| 8 | Far from answering immediately with a negative or affirmative answer to his queries , the Blackrag Madonna puts her ruined head on one side , much as a girl of great beauty might do , and asks him questions in return . |
| 9 | This will increase the suction effect slightly and can make water move upwards , much as a lamp wick draws up oil to replace that being burned . |
| 10 | He turned his face towards the altar end of the chapel , much as a bridegroom might turn his head towards his bride . |
| 11 | Let us say that in the first place man is a creature responding intelligently or stupidly to his surroundings , much as an animal does . |
| 12 | However , in the non-thermonuclear fusion process above , a neutron emitted in the direction of the moving deuteron will have a higher energy than one emitted in the opposite direction , much as an object thrown from a moving vehicle travels faster when thrown forwards . |
| 13 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 14 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 15 | She clung to him while he held himself hard and poised over her for a moment , and then he parted her qivering thighs , slipping himself high inside her as naturally as a silver shoehorn easing on a silk slipper . |
| 16 | So long as a majority of Northern Ireland voters prefer to remain with the United Kingdom , we must concentrate our energies on protection for those on whom the terrorists wage war . |
| 17 | And so long as a transaction falls within the scope of an activity set out in the objects clause ( ’ manufacturing ’ , ‘ property development ’ , and so on ) it will be authorised . |
| 18 | So long as a fissure is known to exist between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor about the ERM , the task of convincing the financial markets that policy is in safe hands will be made infinitely more difficult . |
| 19 | An SVR4-on-Alpha plan has been in the works for as long as a year ( UX No 386 ) and was made all the more likely when Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA announced it would implement SVR4 on the high-end Alpha AXP systems it is to market . |
| 20 | When he was absent for as long as a day . |
| 21 | Lear is now experiencing the truth of La Rochefoucauld 's maxim that ‘ So long as a man is still in a position to help others he will rarely encounter ingratitude . ’ |
| 22 | Those days have gone only so long as a Government are in power who are determined to continue a regime of common sense and reasonable and balanced industrial relations . |
| 23 | So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism . |
| 24 | The justification supposes that so long as a person is possessed of a right , that right may be exercised regardless of the consequences for others . |
| 25 | So long as a head of state — and thus his circle of patronage — can change quite unexpectedly , multi-country regional groupings will have to overcome major political as well as economic problems . |
| 26 | If this is the decision , then such a way of life can be specified as Godly and incorporated into the Created God for as long as a consensus desires it . |
| 27 | So long as a tiger stands still or moves slowly , its stripes make it practically invisible in the jungle or among reeds . |
| 28 | Therefore , only so long as a woman is in labour shall he give up Israel ; and then those that survive of his race shall rejoin their brethren . |
| 29 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |
| 30 | Perhaps it may now be accepted that so long as a historian is acting as a historian , his criteria must arise from his own study and must not be imported from some other autonomous field . |