Example sentences of "[adv] as [art] [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 | We can move , of course , change direction , rattle about , but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current … |
| 3 | Not only have expectations of the future of oil prices been progressively lowered thus making most synfuel projects appear more expensive but investment cost estimates of these huge projects have also risen inexorably as the industry has reached a more exact comprehension of the real engineering costs . |
| 4 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 5 | The paintings are now hung in two registers on the walls , although not as thickly as a century or more ago . |
| 6 | Furthermore as the matrix becomes less sparse the problems associated with storage increase . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is very easy if you like the day before literally as the minister said , the day before for them to make their change as to where the cut off point comes . |
| 9 | He sat down suddenly as the truck bounced off the bank again . |
| 10 | Now , ’ he said , and lifted his sword again , spurring suddenly as the trumpet blared , followed by those on either flank . |
| 11 | She lifted her face to his , then jumped suddenly as the telephone sounded . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | He was opening and shutting his mouth and licking his lips , much as a cat does when something disgusts it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He turned his face towards the altar end of the chapel , much as a bridegroom might turn his head towards his bride . |
| 19 | Much as the University of Oxford is understood by reference to a model of its operational system so may we approach the operations of ‘ mind ’ from this point of view . |
| 20 | The great leap , however , took place long ago , round about 1930 , and private-eye stories have since produced progeny of their own , much as the detective story produced that chain of books culminating in the crime novel . |
| 21 | Lecercle of course means death-knell but English has spoken through him , creating a new meaning for the noun that works very well as a metonymy : the bell 's tolling becomes the bell ( it has " sounded " ) much as the water boiling in the kettle has become the kettle as in the expression , " The kettle 's boiling " . |
| 22 | If plaque is not removed regularly it builds up , much as the scale does on a kettle . |
| 23 | Much as the work fascinated me , and fonder each day as I became of Edward , there was nevertheless a growing sense of frustration . |
| 24 | It implies that there is a physical boundary to the universe , and that God exists ‘ outside ’ it much as the President of France exists . |
| 25 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 26 | These multi-word islands were then used , much as the seed words in HWIM , as the basis for expanding the interpretation according to top-down predictions . |
| 27 | The archer fish is here using water as a tool , much as the ant-lion uses sand , to help it capture its prey . |
| 28 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 29 | His sense of the delicate interrelation between reading , meditation and prayer is set out at the beginning of the chapter on contemplation : Here meditation has a mediating function : a process in which insight is received like a gift , much as the process of analysing a poem mysteriously yields a new integrated perception of its whole meaning which transcends the conscious process of study . |
| 30 | In a sense the strategic visionary practises for the moment of vision , much as the actor practises for the moment of performance . |