Example sentences of "[adv] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each haustorium penetrates the host tissue and through this ‘ living bridge ’ draws water and nutrients , much as a mammalian fetus draws its nourishment from the placental connections embedded in the wall of the womb . |
| 2 | It was , therefore , to some degree the older generation attacking the younger , much as an eighteenth century minister might have attacked the political involvement by ministers in the 1830s and 1840s when they refused to pay Church Rates and supported the Rev. Edward Miall 's British Anti-State Church Association . |
| 3 | With a digital signal , it is very difficult for distortion to occur since so long as a 1 remains a 1 and 0 remains a 0 the signal will continue to carry all the information and the data stream will be as pure at the end as it was at the beginning . |
| 4 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 5 | Kádár was fairly liberal in that respect , so long as a few taboos were respected , especially the role of the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | Even in a larger group , so long as a few actors stand to benefit disproportionately from the group 's success , then it may be worth their while to bear the costs of collective action , although less-involved people will free-ride . |
| 7 | That might work with the philosophe who put together the doctrine in the first place but it is unlikely to work with a follower who is able to live with all sons of inconsistencies so long as a few slogans can be repeated again and again . |
| 8 | Vauxhall 's Nova 1.5TD , for instance , is a fast , frugal hatchback with an Isuzu turbodiesel which when properly maintained should last as long as a naturally-aspirated engine . |
| 9 | The average working week of housewiv es in this sample is seventy-seven hours — almost twice as long as an industrial working week of forty hours . |
| 10 | The Netherlands allows the centre to carry on supporting , preparatory or auxiliary activities , which is more flexible , at least in principle , and the centre can take on commercial risks so long as an increased mark-up is agreed . |
| 11 | Of course , this does not rule out the use of naturalistic facts so long as an objective notion of validity is employed — the validity of inductive inference could turn on features of the context in which it is carried out , or the perceptual apparatus of the reasoner . |
| 12 | After a 16-year ban , shops will now be allowed to display English ( or Italian or other language ) signs outside , so long as an accompanying French sign is ‘ markedly predominant ’ — that is , twice as big . |
| 13 | But she found that background sound levels at New York 's J. F. Kennedy international airport are 51–98 decibels — nearly as loud as an approaching aircraft ( Environmental Pollution . |
| 14 | Somewhere lay the sound of singing — I say lay for the voice seemed to float on the waters as gently as a slight mist . |
| 15 | You guys are gon na sponsor this but it will bring the the trade buying price , not the retail because that 's there is n't there 's no such thing in in as a retail price for that sort of industry . |
| 16 | The avoidance of such fluctuations was considered desirable not only as a first stage in monetary union but also for the smooth operation of the Common Agricultural Policy , since food prices are calculated according to the exchange value of member currencies . |
| 17 | MEN-HUNGRY Californians are flocking to enrol in special aerobics classes set up to beat flabby backsides — after a survey showed that many guys rated a pert behind as highly as a pretty face . |
| 18 | The colours and shapes were intensified by the sun 's last strong rays so that the ruins of the abbey looked unreal , a golden fantasy against the blue of the sea , and the dry grass gleamed as richly as a lush water meadow . |
| 19 | Since there are many possible adaptive forms , the patterns of development can be represented as a tree in which many lines branch out in different directions from the same starting point , not as a linear scale . |
| 20 | The diet industry ( via the media ) sells the myth that a new body shape can be obtained as easily as a new haircut , provided you can afford their products and endure prolonged starvation . |
| 21 | PETER SCUDAMORE , who breaks records as easily as a psychotic disc jockey , was at it again yesterday , shattering his own mark for the fastest 50 winners by a National Hunt jockey when he rode In-Keeping to an easy victory at Wincanton . |
| 22 | It came away as easily as a dead treebranch . |
| 23 | Saying that he ought to be able to get through a closed door as easily as an open one , Swift is supposed to have left him standing on the doorstep . |
| 24 | It is important that the school library 's microcomputer will be seen as a whole-school resource and not just as a mechanical tool for improving the efficiency of the school library . |
| 25 | She was aware of her now , not just as a daft , cantankerous old woman but as someone like herself , fearful and isolated . |
| 26 | Erm we we have actually got data to prove that actually as well in our phase one surveys er so it 's not just as a general statement . |
| 27 | The ‘ distrustful fellow ’ of the past is present , and not just as a commemorative item . |
| 28 | ‘ I feel I 'll score goals anywhere in any system and not just as a forward player getting on the end of anything knocked long . |
| 29 | In their writing , Froebel , Pestalozzi , Edgeworth , the Macmillans and Susan Isaacs reiterate basic principles for effective learning , all of which involve the child as an active learner not just as a passive receptacle ( Curtis 1986 , Ch. 2 ) . |
| 30 | Nigel Terry plays him most intelligently , not just as a mercenary hit-man but as a soft-spoken scholar obsessed by mortality . |