Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is arguable that the select committees promote independence of mind among MPs and make them less willing to vote automatically as the whips would like . |
| 2 | However , while it is possible to discount the efficiency consequences at low rates of tax , it becomes less and less easy to do so as the rates of tax get higher . |
| 3 | With an above average climb in prices up to 1990 , the fall has been equally steep , but prices look set to hold up as the international status of sculpture rises |
| 4 | ‘ Also you are less likely to fall off as the saddle is constructed with two pommels to grip . |
| 5 | ‘ In the course of time the present [ 1954 ] conflict between Communism and Democracy , between East and West , is likely to pass just as the religious wars of the 16th and 17th century have passed . |
| 6 | They were supposed to enter just as the large velvet curtains with enormous gold tassels rose . |
| 7 | Unless the inviting church can show that it has the capacity within itself to attract and retain the outsider , it is unlikely to do so as the result of a brief visit from an itinerant evangelist , no matter how gifted . |
| 8 | At least part of the explanation of this was , however , the efficiency of the National Grid 's integrated programme of power station planning and operation , with which smaller private generating stations were less and less able to compete economically as the 1950s progressed . |
| 9 | We find ourselves less able to think dearly as the oxygen intake diminishes and our panic therefore becomes greater . |
| 10 | For the first time , the United Nations would be able to operate effectively as the guarantor of a law-bound international order , with the United States acting as its enforcement arm against aggressors . |
| 11 | After eighteen twenty five of course erm the death of Alexandria especially of Nicholas Russia is more inclined to intervene especially as the Greek rebels are being defeated because of the mention the intervention of of erm Turkey 's ally erm er Egypt Egypt a a a a problem for the Turkish empire . |