Example sentences of "[prep] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest industrial sites are now often looked after as carefully as those of abbeys and castles . |
| 2 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
| 3 | If the precursor O 2 is passed through an electrical discharge so that dissociation and recombination leads to the formation of as well as the symmetrical species , the products of reaction with X will also include and , which are different molecules ; their frequencies will probably be quite similar , but their frequencies will differ considerably . |
| 4 | Do the easy ones first , the ones that you can definitely answer , rattle those of as quickly as you can so then you know what time you 've got to spend on the difficult ones That 's a very good point . |
| 5 | They should be got rid of as early as possible . |
| 6 | Kleon , in Aristophanes ' Knights , is represented as a ‘ lover of the demos ’ , but Philodemos occurs as a proper name in an Athenian casualty-list of as early as c.460 ( ML 33 ) ; more important , Kleisthenes in the sixth century had taken the demos into partnership , as Herodotus puts it , and Pericles in the 460s had won over the people with jury pay . |
| 7 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 8 | And then fourthly , more and more the orthodox churches placed , played a very significant part in guiding the port of as far as as the assembly was concerned . |
| 9 | ‘ That messenger can pour back the ale near as fast as yourself , Lachlan , ’ she laughed . |
| 10 | The survey shows that crime is not rising anywhere near as fast as police figures suggest . |
| 11 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |
| 12 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 13 | Whatever kind of mix you use to facilitate rapid dispersing when it sinks , thrown bait will not spread anywhere near as efficiently as a loose feed which can be spread accurately from a boat . |
| 14 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 15 | They will certainly be happy at Trent Bridge if Pennett turns out anything like as well as another seamer who had to leave his native county to find success — a certain David Millns . |
| 16 | In reality the distribution was nothing like as even as this . |
| 17 | But the process does n't work ( that is , accord with our intuitions ) anything like as powerfully as it does in music . |
| 18 | That too is a long way off , but nothing like as far as the stars . ’ |
| 19 | For all those who scoffed at the idea of my mastering anything complex like Excel , I 'm pleased to say that I 've bought my first copy , and it 's nothing like as hard as I thought . |
| 20 | Lifting up her pink nightdress her mother had then smacked her behind as hard as she could , afterwards putting her face next to Carla 's and telling her that she had had enough . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They were sinned against as well as sinners . |
| 23 | This involves studying the social relationships people enter into as well as the kinds of knowledge and beliefs , values and sentiments people acquire as part of these social processes . |
| 24 | What had come to the poets in their most serene or passionate moments we glided into as easily as we gathered flowers for Maud or Blanche or Mabel , as we lay in the grass with our eyes divided between the books , the land and the clouds . |
| 25 | I have to scuff the other foot as well , with as near as possible the same weight , to feel good again . |
| 26 | At the same time , chemical drugs cause side-effects which the body then has to deal with as well as the disease . |
| 27 | It shows what was involved in the running of a small yet busy rural station , the variety of incidents that Norman had to deal with as well as the people under his span of control . |
| 28 | PAYE , National Insurance , statutory sick pay — all these have to be dealt with as well as the problems of year end returns and changes in legislation . |
| 29 | The analysis of the unmet need for legal services identified types of problem which were not being dealt with as well as types of people . |
| 30 | Most of the centre 's work is concerned with checking the health effects of the work done by everyone at Park Royal , but the part time physiotherapist at the centre has her fair share of football and other sports injuries to contend with as well as other muscular and skeletal problems suffered by employees . |