Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [conj] the " in BNC.

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1 Taking your point that chemistry at university is a privileged subject in so far as that the equipment available is more sophisticated , more expense , more accurate , possibly , surely universities ought to be doing something to help kids in schools ?
2 In fact , Lance Percival came to a conclusion as long ago as when the One Over The Eight show was still running that Ken would n't have minded if his comedy days had been over , too .
3 It is not even as though the Government have adhered to their own reasons for refusing to act on this in the past .
4 She was not smiling now , but her look was full of a benevolent curiosity , and the soft island voice , with the lilt of the Gaelic moving through it like a gentle sea-swell , warmed me as palpably as if the sun had come into the dim and cluttered little shop .
5 Well , even then , not knowing Goreng and with two toes blown off as cleanly as if the surgeon 's knife had done the job , a mangled calf , and shrapnel resident two centimetres from the balls , I could recognise Martinho had played a masterly hand .
6 The evening was dropping like velvet and the lagoon was fading to a deep dusky richness in which the curving palms were reflected as cleanly as though the water were a dark-silvered looking-glass .
7 This morning , he would n't take no for an answer , and , after urging her to consider the idea and bringing her out here as confidently as if the whole thing were quite settled in his mind , he was now taking the ground from under her feet by playing devil 's advocate .
8 And then fourthly , more and more the orthodox churches placed , played a very significant part in guiding the port of as far as as the assembly was concerned .
9 When she opened them again , Fincara was there , as silently as if the blackness had merely thickened into shape .
10 Then she said as casually as if the previous conversation had been trivial small talk which was already half forgotten : ‘ What about next Sunday ?
11 I have forgotten the ins and outs of it : all I remember is that we argued as passionately as if the national survival was at stake .
12 He strained to conjure up her face and her voice , but they had vanished , as completely as though the memory had been cut out of his brain .
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