Example sentences of "[noun] just as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you eat more on some days and less on others , you will shed weight just as successfully as if you stuck to the same number of calories each day . |
| 2 | Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas . |
| 3 | And because the upper limit of a microscope 's resolving power depends on the wavelength of the waves illuminating the object under study , Sokolov suggested that an acoustic microscope should in theory be able to resolve images just as well as the standard optical system . |
| 4 | A publisher can collect that money just as easily as an artist , but a publishing company has the resources to offer the artist effective promotion services . |
| 5 | He waited for the girl 's regular visits to the sick cow just as impatiently as his dog waited to be fed . |
| 6 | Gases are offensive , smells are offensive , grit and dust penetrate houses just as surely as toxic vapours and car fumes . |
| 7 | The appliance manufacturers , the frozen food kings , the canners and food merchants exploited to the hilt the female desire to get out of the kitchen just as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | They believed they could win votes in Sunderland just as surely as in Mid-Sussex . |
| 9 | Bath had a good long look at the videos and soon saw that little variations of this move could break opposition defences just as easily as the blasting back-row scrum moves with which Australia had devastated England when they so mistakenly toured Australia last year . |
| 10 | Thus , Mercier and Baker report a series of experiments in which rats pre-exposed to a compound of a clicker and a light acquired latent inhibition to the click just as readily as subjects pre-exposed to the click alone , and this in spite of the fact that the light was a salient event that was certainly noticed and processed by the animals . |
| 11 | I think he was crippled by his upbringing just as badly as he was by the car crash . |
| 12 | Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better . |
| 13 | That 's despite new evidence that people in their seventies or eighties can recover from operations just as well as the young . |
| 14 | Hilton clearly attached great importance to this apostolate : he tells his nun that she will meet God in her visitors just as surely as in the solitude of her cell . |
| 15 | ‘ You can get those in law just as well as medicine . |
| 16 | The main contractor has to plan for subcontracted work just as seriously as for his or her own work . |
| 17 | British Rail asserts , and the hon. Member for Keighley said so again tonight , that in physical terms the planned exit of the lines from King 's Cross at the south-eastern corner of the new proposed station is such that lines could go to Stratford just as easily as they could have gone southwards . |
| 18 | The Profitboss can hire cleaners just as cheaply as a subcontractor , and they 'll take more pride in identifying with him and the company than with some boss once removed . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that their super-sensitive barbules detect our lines just as easily as they detect food , but , fortunately for us , they usually accept our offerings in spite of the obvious danger they have felt , though the same danger compels them to take the bait ‘ hit-and-run ’ style . |
| 20 | A Toraja boy desires his own fighting cock just as longingly as a youngster might desire his first motorbike in the West . |
| 21 | He knew that he looked like an ox , but that counted for nothing ; an ox could drop in its tracks just as easily as anything else . |
| 22 | In principle , everything applies to diverging lenses just as well as to converging lenses . |
| 23 | " Instead of the children of the working class being subjected to rigorous self-denial in preparation for a life-time in mill or mine , " he writes , " they have been offered instead the promise of the easy and immediate gratification which , in the end , can sabotage human development and achievement just as effectively as the poverty and hunger of the past . " |
| 24 | ‘ He killed Robin just as surely as he murdered Marion . |
| 25 | No one thinks that a female MP can not represent both the men and the women in her constituency just as effectively as a man . |
| 26 | She knew what this man was , knew he was capable of raiding hearts just as easily as nightclubs , yet here she was all but melting away because he 'd touched her ! |
| 27 | Total repression of conflict leads to anarchy just as surely as does total conflict' ( ibid. xii ) . |
| 28 | Blackbirds , wrens and some others will mock a ferret just as readily as they mock any other predator . |
| 29 | Managers became alarmed as , against all expectations , the operators managed to control the machinery just as well as their supervisors and demanded higher wages . |
| 30 | Moreover , to compete successfully against Microsoft Corp 's NT , users must be assured that applications will run under one version of Unix just as easily as another . |