Example sentences of "[adv] as [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But while people think of me perhaps as just a guitar producer who does n't go anywhere near sequencers , I actually use them quite a lot . |
| 2 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 3 | Within days my razor-sharp gleaming long knife was slicing away as fast an an Austin Seven 's piston , much to the watching queue 's fascinated appreciation . |
| 4 | The status of general courses is thus as much a matter of context and clientele as content , and seems likely to change only if the latter change . |
| 5 | It 's what they call in governmental circles , an IDIQ or Indefinite Delivery , Indefinite Quantity contract , described elsewhere as merely a ‘ hunting licence . ’ |
| 6 | This is designer socialism : the belief that buying tassled loafers rather than winklepickers , is somehow as much a PR of the struggle as being on the picket line at Wapping . |
| 7 | The right of refugee return remained firmly part of the rhetoric but it was less clear whether it was still as firmly a part of policy . |
| 8 | The boys barricaded the gates and mounted the city walls , a move probably as much a result of a popular rebellion against Lundy 's action as a defiant gesture . |
| 9 | Also as both a rugby player and as a cricketer he played the game with distinction at first-class level . |
| 10 | They are also as much a potential source of recommendations as the client . |
| 11 | Magic thus represents a view of causation utterly at variance with the concepts of the Christian scientific West , which are now as much a part of the African 's world as is ancient tradition . ’ |
| 12 | The Smiths had their day , made the '80s safe for ironic excitement and indie pop that was n't crap , and are now as much a part of the nostalgia industry-chart museum as The Rolling Stones . |
| 13 | In all of this — in matters appertaining to ‘ taste ’ , that is — there is a new kind of predatory cruelty in the air , which is now as much a part of the successful survivor ( also known as the yuppie ) as Paul Smith togs , a Betty Jackson outfit and extruded plastic or brushed aluminium accessories . |
| 14 | Many police officers today , even in the higher ranks , can not remember carrying out their police duties without the assistance of the computer , and it is now as much a part of police back-up as the police car and police radio . |
| 15 | But they and the families which ran them are now as much a part of local history as pits and shipbuilding . |
| 16 | Seven out of 10 families visit a local beauty spot or attraction at least once a month , according to the research by Gallop , with three out of 10 people ‘ getting away from it all ’ as often as once a week . |
| 17 | Only 5 per cent of the children saw their parents as often as once a month ; 41 per cent had no parental contact . |
| 18 | Beginning in 1910 , it put on performances as often as once a month , at which texts from , for example , Nietzsche , Rilke , Wedekind , and others were read . |
| 19 | Perhaps as often as once a month , depending partly on the amount of dust in the air , you should get out the drive cleaning kit and service the heads in the way I 've described before trouble starts . |
| 20 | The Japanese would like such a declaration to involve regular summit meetings , perhaps as often as twice a year , between the Japanese prime minister and the Community president — like the informal meetings that Toshiki Kaifu has been having with President Bush . |
| 21 | The way that these arrangements for the responsibility and control of book provision work out are often as much a matter of personalities and university politics as anything else . |
| 22 | One answer was that the riots in 1980 in Bristol followed by others in Toxteth , Moss Side and Handsworth in 1981 and Tottenham , Handsworth and Bristol in 1985 showed that young people could be a very real threat to the social order as well as just a symbolic one . |
| 23 | Its status as an historical monument will involve several constraints as well as just a low hammer price for its French or French resident purchaser . |
| 24 | The Greek revolt was seen as a symbolic er event as well as just an anti Turkish er erm uprising . |
| 25 | It is worth noting , however , that consent to a political authority entails a promise to obey it ( as well as perhaps an obligation to support it in other ways ) . |
| 26 | If I might repeat again what I suggested in the debate on the White Paper er there is a comparison perhaps pushed a little far w which what the national socialist did in Germany by saying a locally elected major-like does not represent the wishes er an er interests of the people of Cologne , as well as perhaps an appointed business man with the name of Krupp . |
| 27 | In the demonstration New Scientist played with , which involved data about a doughnut factory , there were confusing references to SPVSRS ( supervisors ) as well as quite a lot of mathematical symbols . |
| 28 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 29 | I notice we have a chart on the back of the door here as well a circle measured off in angles and er this is lovely it 's got Venus |
| 30 | Eliot saw the savage here as simply a base from which to start in the critique of the modern . |