Example sentences of "[adv] thoroughly as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had clearly not done their homework so thoroughly as ATP before its coup d'etat over the Men 's Tennis Council in 1989 . |
| 2 | It is the most promising ‘ global language ’ candidate , or at least the most likely to permeate other languages so thoroughly as to amount to the same thing . |
| 3 | Paleontology had always had a geographical dimension , and this was exploited more thoroughly as the exploration of the fossil record became possible on a world-wide scale . |
| 4 | ‘ All you can do is study the situation as thoroughly as you can and be clear as to what the issues are and who is going to be affected by the decision . |
| 5 | The essential thing is that you should do the homework as thoroughly as you can . ’ |
| 6 | The world of this novel is as much his country as the wild , half-derelict countrified pockets around the rapidly developing suburbia of Wimbledon , Kensington , and Battersea which the fictitious Philip and Arthur explored as thoroughly as the real Arthur Hardy and Edward had explored the parts of London commons which they called ‘ Our Country ’ . |
| 7 | Outside the immaculately maintained and smartly guarded naval enclaves , where minds were drilled as thoroughly as bodies in uniformity and obedience , the privilege of royal society was granted on condition that it would be denied to all outsiders . |
| 8 | The representatives from abroad were not expected for a further two or three days , but the three gentlemen referred to by his lordship as his ‘ home team ’ — two Foreign Office ministers attending very much ‘ off the record ’ and Sir David Cardinal — had come early to prepare the ground as thoroughly as possible . |
| 9 | Similarly , Freeman argued , in relation to unskilled labour , that ‘ uneducative ’ employment was unavoidable and , therefore , it was necessary that ‘ the intelligence and character of the adolescent be trained outside the workshop ’ : ‘ We can not train for a trade , but we can enable the worker to do his duties as thoroughly as possible ’ ; such training would give a ‘ familiarity ’ with ‘ ordinary tools ’ and ‘ simple machines ’ , a grounding in ‘ mechanics ’ and ‘ competent draughtsmanship ’ . |
| 10 | My objective — and , of course , this was one imposed upon me by my professionalism and by the need to clear the ground of rabbits as thoroughly as possible — was first to dispose of the bolting rabbits and then to continue by digging out as many of the remainder as possible . |
| 11 | The other says you should wash or hose off mud and then dry the area as thoroughly as possible . |
| 12 | And the NZRFU councillors who so quickly criticised South Africa must hope that none of the leading New Zealand players show positive on drug-testing — if and when that is introduced as thoroughly as New Zealand require from South Africa . |
| 13 | However , the manner in which professional and other partnerships are to be taxed , and the equity and practicalities , both from a firm 's and its advisers ' viewpoints , appear not to have been thought through as thoroughly as one might have hoped . |
| 14 | This requires him to immerse himself as thoroughly as he can in the life of the community he is trying to understand . |
| 15 | We only keep your delivery records for a limited time , and if there is too long an interval between the date of despatch and receiving a claim , then we are unable to investigate the problem as thoroughly as we would wish . |
| 16 | Each child is likely to have his own particular patterns , but it 's not necessary , or desirable , or possible , to analyse each child 's errors as thoroughly as these examples do . |
| 17 | In the first few years in a district the officer learns about his territory as thoroughly as possible . |
| 18 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 19 | Yet the Han had destroyed all that they had once been — had severed them from their cultural roots as simply and as thoroughly as a gardener might snip the stem of a chrysanthemum . |
| 20 | In fact , Labov 's propensity to set out patterns in his data in a highly visual way is quite in the spirit of exploratory statistics ; but the data are not presented as comprehensively nor analysed as thoroughly as they would be using Tukey 's principles . |
| 21 | Before embarking on any decoration Laura was determined to research the château 's history as thoroughly as possible to establish what was original and what should be preserved . |
| 22 | Roman de Sciorto appeared to despise her , she decided , almost as thoroughly as she despised him . |
| 23 | For the reasons that I gave in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Bexleyheath ( Mr. Townsend ) , I believe that we are looking after the interests and future of the wood as thoroughly as any reasonable person could . |
| 24 | And no-one has covered Northern Ireland as thoroughly as we have : Panorama 's Dirty War examined the way British intelligence ran agent Brian Nelson ; Lethal Force tested the suspicion that men who could have been captured or wanted to surrender had been shot dead whilst a special on the Guildford Four broke new ground , exposing the role of the DPP 's office in withholding crucial evidence . |
| 25 | One moment the sun was on her face , the next raindrops the size of golf balls were pelting down on her , drenching her as thoroughly as a bathroom shower . |
| 26 | They cleaned themselves up quickly , instructed all the others to shower again as thoroughly as possible in view of the AIDS risk , and then went into the interview room to talk to Steve 's parents . |
| 27 | All of these types of gravel must be washed very thoroughly as they often contain lots of dust or other debris . |