Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has n't any proper name like this cos these are private houses and estate are council houses but the built at top of was called the Old Plantation and the Old Plantation that 's when the first houses were built then of course when you er find the company first started which er Old Plantation is right opposite erm and when you came along past you then branched off to that 's all fields and you came down as far as and then you branched off to . |
| 2 | Wolverton , which had been the seat of the locomotive building industry for the L & B Railway was no longer so convenient as when the northern terminus was at Birmingham . |
| 3 | It looks not so much as if women are passively being forced into the arts and rejecting science , but that they are making very clear choices . |
| 4 | Throughout their journey several topics remained alive between them , to be returned to again and again , not so much as if the first discourse had not resolved matters — more as it they remained as life issues , or questions of the day . |
| 5 | For example , loading the stomach with food or water directly has some satiating effect , but not as great as when the substance is also allowed to pass into the intestine or has previously passed through the mouth . |
| 6 | It 's not as much as as the other two but it 's still a significant amount . |
| 7 | The nice people are still there to enjoy the music , although perhaps not as much as if they 'd been allowed to express themselves and some of the nasty people are beginning to appreciate the actual music . |
| 8 | ‘ My husband moans that I 'm not as slim as when we first met ’ |
| 9 | It 's not as bad as that I know but you get my meaning . |
| 10 | ‘ But it was not as bad as when I was first diagnosed . |
| 11 | That 's why I 'm glad that WISE thing , I mean it 's about time they bloody realized — I 'm convinced that once a woman gets into science she 's just as good as if not better than , any man . |
| 12 | Views held widely , but by no means universally , about monarchy , nationalism and democracy were questioned because of this , just as much as because of their results . |
| 13 | So that in my judgment that regulation can be referred to because it is embodied in the Act itself and , having a quasi-parliamentary validity , is a good indication of the wishes of the legislature , just as much as if it were enacted in the Act itself . |
| 14 | These appear to be the valid wordings for trusts which are in most common use : ‘ I request ’ , ‘ I ask ’ , ‘ I wish ’ , and ‘ I entrust ’ , which are individually just as effective as if they were all used together . |
| 15 | The emotions of like and dislike are just as broad as if they had arisen from a total survey of the car . |
| 16 | Nails , unlike Jazz and Hoomey , looked just as weedy as when they had started their training — so much so , in fact , that his puny appearance along with his new , apparent docility had set the school 's pastoral care department into action . |
| 17 | My cover 's blown ; that woman 's ruined everything for me just as sure as if she was standing next to me dribbling down her front and complaining about ration books . |
| 18 | He well recalls a couplet about him in The Times : ‘ He was right , dead right , as he walked along ; but he was just as dead as if he 'd been wrong . ’ |
| 19 | My view is that international players must understand that their behaviour for clubs is just as important as when they play for England . ’ |
| 20 | It 's very good he the video 's just as safe as if children that needs character what do you think ? |
| 21 | The mammalian carnivore assemblages all show considerable loss of distal elements , usually as great as or greater than any of the avian predators ( Table 3.2 ) . |
| 22 | This brief in our series on the modern classics of economics looks at a paper that is still as controversial as when it first appeared — and suddenly much more relevant to the debate on economic policy . |
| 23 | Archaeologists have a clear responsibility : until the information contained in those records is made available to other archaeologists , and to the general public , the excavation is not complete : the information is still as inaccessible as if the site had never been excavated , and the records themselves might just as well be buried . |
| 24 | A key element of obtaining that price would be your ability to demonstrate that the profits to October have been met and that your outlook on the future market is still as good as when we last met with your colleagues . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's hilly and covered in forest , and the going wo n't be easy , but not nearly as difficult as if we tried to go south over the mountains . |
| 26 | start , what to do or anything so , you need a little bit of practice at doing them for , for revision and then it , it 's not nearly as hard as when you first learnt , it pulls it out of your head again and then sort of puts it back in a bit more settled down and easier to retrieve . |
| 27 | And within five minutes , we were both as naked as when we were born , bouncing merrily across the great fourposter bed . |
| 28 | I lay with my limbs stretched out as stiff as though rigor mortis had set in , and imitated a corpse so as to give greater reality to the enquiry . |
| 29 | Then if your idea turns out to be not as magnificently ingenious as when , in the dark hours you first thought of it , all is not lost . |
| 30 | Provided this is taken into account , the differences between comparable samples are as readily discernible as when relative abundance is used . |