Example sentences of "[adv] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This description fits a young fish of one variation , but the colours and patterning change somewhat as the fish matures . |
| 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 | Furthermore as the matrix becomes less sparse the problems associated with storage increase . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We 've not managed to clear the speaker 's part of the platform as entirely as the Americans do , but at least we 've managed to create a decent space around the speaker . |
| 8 | He sat down suddenly as the truck bounced off the bank again . |
| 9 | Now , ’ he said , and lifted his sword again , spurring suddenly as the trumpet blared , followed by those on either flank . |
| 10 | She lifted her face to his , then jumped suddenly as the telephone sounded . |
| 11 | The torch beam jerked suddenly as the Baronne moved her hand in an irritable gesture of negation . |
| 12 | Hector , picking at his food , sat up suddenly as the rushes moved gently under her feet . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , in the late 1970s it was easy to see the divisions of Zuwaya into sections and lineages reflected in the street map of Ajdabiya , much as the oases of Kufra or Tazarbu were subdivided into tribal territories . |
| 14 | It somehow ‘ lies beneath ’ them as another ‘ thing ’ , much as the clothes horse lies underneath the clothes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I try to rise above such prejudices , much as the communicators rise above the prejudices of the C2s . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | If plaque is not removed regularly it builds up , much as the scale does on a kettle . |
| 20 | They also , in turn , completely dominated their homeland , much as the black-and-whites do today . |
| 21 | Much as the work fascinated me , and fonder each day as I became of Edward , there was nevertheless a growing sense of frustration . |
| 22 | ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ is religious music in its most contemporary and pure form , from a thirty year old woman who has devoted her soul to its production much as the monks of the middle ages created illuminated manuscripts . |
| 23 | Wilson in the end fails to escape from ‘ the nexus of moralistic ideology and patriarchal vision dressed up as social science , ( ibid. ) , much as the writers reviewed by Macnicol failed to do . |
| 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 | Much as the regimes of Eastern Europe might welcome the support of their neighbours against Moscow — and hence a strengthening of such multilateral forums — they also view their neighbours as rival claimants to Moscow 's favour and are wary of giving them a greater voice in their own affairs . |
| 28 | Normally , release prints are made from a duplicate ( 'dupe' ) negative , much as the pictures in this book are made from dupes of the ( expensive , irreplaceable ) slides borrowed from agencies . |
| 29 | They were wonderful horsemen and gloried in their skills , much as the Cossacks did in later times . |
| 30 | The archer fish is here using water as a tool , much as the ant-lion uses sand , to help it capture its prey . |