Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] as when " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | My view is that international players must understand that their behaviour for clubs is just as important as when they play for England . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And within five minutes , we were both as naked as when we were born , bouncing merrily across the great fourposter bed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Provided this is taken into account , the differences between comparable samples are as readily discernible as when relative abundance is used . |
| 13 | Said it was n't as good as when we and . |
| 14 | 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 … : - ) |
| 15 | They came down almost as big as when they went up . |
| 16 | If we took de Guichet himself — I saw him pass the other day , twice as thick as when I knew him , and the beard changes a man , but I knew that thwarted , ambitious face of his — if we took de Guichet himself , would Isambard give us Harry for him ? |
| 17 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |
| 18 | Once mistaken for a joker , he could henceforth be seen as a crank : an important advance in reputation , though this playful and darting mind was seldom so serious as when it was spoofing , or so earnest in intent as when making a joke . |
| 19 | The Gods are never so dangerous as when they wake from sleep . |
| 20 | Oh , yes , revenge is never so sweet as when it 's deserved . |
| 21 | He is giving Gascoigne the platform to perform in the same way as France built a side around Michel Platini , and Argentina around Diego Maradona — the latter never more evident as when they won the World Cup in 1986 . |
| 22 | If he had turned from her and rushed from the room , banging the door after him , she would not have felt half as afraid as when he backed slowly from her , his arm bent and his forefinger wagging at her . |
| 23 | the problem is that the radioactive material has a half life of about thirty years … this means that it 'll be three decades before the material becomes half as radioactive as when it was first leaked … and a century before it is safe to humans . |
| 24 | If someone else even tried , it probably would n't be half as funny as when Les did it . |
| 25 | I 've seen her angry in that dress many times , but never as angry as when some man said to her , I do n't see why we have to keep on giving money like this . |
| 26 | Of the scientific Discourses at the Royal Institution some were describing original research , occasionally very new as when J. J. Thomson reported in 1897 the discovery of the electron ( if we may allow that phrase ) ; others were in the nature of a review of recent work . |