Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to British observers , rules were altered occasionally in mid-flight with protests from the French flying as thickly as English arrows at Agincourt . |
| 2 | Furthermore as nationalised industries were intended to operate in the ‘ national interest ’ , it was claimed that this should lead to improved industrial relations , as the strife between labour and capital , associated with capitalist ownership , was reduced . |
| 3 | Of course , road accidents and pedestrian tumbles would also increase alarmingly as wind-blown polymer dust spread round the locality . |
| 4 | At the root of his lifestyle was pots of money , treated almost entirely as disposable income , given that he still lived with his parents . |
| 5 | It is true , of course , that most Victorian parents regarded acquaintance with death as an integral part of the school of experience , much as modern parents look upon sex education . |
| 6 | Feminist psychologists tend to see the significance of gender differences much as conventional psychologists do . |
| 7 | As well as starch , carbohydrate can occur naturally as simple sugars . |
| 8 | Thomas lies as naturally as other men breathe , if he told truth he would be untrue to himself . |
| 9 | Au these possibilities are recognized in EC competition policy , and are given exemption from Article 85 so long as certain safeguards are in place . |
| 10 | So long as other leaders do not follow Dubček 's example , Moscow can be confident of dealing with known quantities in its client states and of possessing means to manipulate factional rivalries to its own advantage . |
| 11 | That prospect is anyway slight so long as Soviet-American cosiness continues and Iraq 's war machine remains broken . |
| 12 | So long as political elites are capable of providing policy leadership , the roles and behaviour of public agency administrators are simple . |
| 13 | For as long as ordinary people remain on the Island , this pub will not change . |
| 14 | From as early as 1708 most Tories were pushing for peace , so long as suitable terms could be reached with France . |
| 15 | So long as international affairs were left to the uncontrolled interplay of nation states , mutual suspicion would generate arms races which , in turn , would generate wars . |
| 16 | In the context of this paper it is suggested that the following principles are added : dementia sufferers should be maintained in their own homes for as long as possible dementia sufferers should be maintained in their own community for as long as possible the number of moves should be kept to a minimum the independence , dignity and privacy of the sufferer must be respected the dementia sufferers must be involved as far as possible in discussions and decisions regarding their care and any possible move carers or potential carers should be involved in the decision-making process . |
| 17 | Because of the stress laid upon the need for timely preparation , there was no support for the common contemporary practice of withholding from a sick person as long as possible warning of the terminal character of the illness . |
| 18 | Socialist proponents of the use of markets do not suggest that markets can simply be retained , so long as private ownership of the means of production is abolished . |
| 19 | The first time you use the rehearsal room , spend as long as necessary setting up your equipment until each member of the band can hear themselves and everyone else clearly . |
| 20 | So long as criminological theory drew from ahistorical empirical data from the United States and Europe it was possible to construct theories relatively consistent with the available evidence . |
| 21 | The latter two phenomena essentially restore the crust to its approximate elevation before loading by ice or water , but denudation can lead to continued uplift of the crust for as long as continental crust is sub-aerially exposed . |
| 22 | So long as religious music and sophisticated secular music shared the common techniques of imitative polyphony they naturally preserved a relationship the closeness of which is demonstrated by the numerous paraphrase Masses based on madrigals or chansons . |
| 23 | Its distribution in space becomes more and more contorted by the velocity fluctuations , but so long as molecular diffusion plays no role , the marked fluid is always just the same fluid . |
| 24 | In the sector that concerns us though , the figures from within the trade and the individual records of women employees tell a clear story : almost all the women compositors were single , and for as long as normal recruitment continued , up to 1910 , the majority of them were young . |
| 25 | Indeed , so long as total pleasure just outweighs total pain an ever increasing population is likely to be a more effective way of increasing happiness than making life better for each individual . |
| 26 | Natural gut absorbs moisture and does not last as long as synthetic string . |
| 27 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 28 | So long as full employment was sustained by government policy , wage inflation was a natural consequence . |
| 29 | Many think that such profits will continue as long as big borrowers run the government . |
| 30 | Recently introduced to the UK , I hope that sun-dried tomatoes will remain essential for the kitchen store-cupboard for as long as olive oil , salt and pepper are there . |