Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] as [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ My husband moans that I 'm not as slim as when we first met ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But it was not as bad as when I was first diagnosed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The emotions of like and dislike are just as broad as if they had arisen from a total survey of the car . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | My view is that international players must understand that their behaviour for clubs is just as important as when they play for England . ’ |
| 12 | It 's very good he the video 's just as safe as if children that needs character what do you think ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And within five minutes , we were both as naked as when we were born , bouncing merrily across the great fourposter bed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Provided this is taken into account , the differences between comparable samples are as readily discernible as when relative abundance is used . |
| 22 | Said it was n't as good as when we and . |
| 23 | If you are n't as good as if you were in church , the train wo n't come , and we sha n't go away in it to the ends of the earth . |
| 24 | G P is n't as up-to-date as as as you might hope with the information him or herself . |
| 25 | He smiled infuriatingly at her , lifting a hand to run it over his dark hair , seemingly as relaxed as though they were just sharing a pleasant little chat rather than this frosty interview . |
| 26 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 27 | This is almost as beautiful as where you live ! ’ she exclaimed . |
| 28 | Almost as sweet as when Giggs missed that penalty a year or so ago vs Soton in the FA Cup which meant they got knocked out … : - ) |
| 29 | They came down almost as big as when they went up . |
| 30 | It was almost as clear as if he had been there . |