Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] as [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meredith pressed her thighs together as tightly as she could , summoning up all her resolve . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Diana felt a debt of gratitude to the woman who had been so kind to her during that first traumatic public engagement eighteen months before as well as an empathy with someone who , like her , had come into the royal world from the outside . |
| 4 | Parties of up to 23 have been involved and , in general Avocets , are now likely to be met in small parties quite as often as singly in the county . |
| 5 | Although police remove the illegally-parked cars almost as fast as they are abandoned , the local body responsible for administering parking is insisting that someone pay the hefty excess charges incurred by the prolonged presence of other cars in legal spaces . |
| 6 | Armies of monkeys marching through the jungle roof on swinging arms took fright , too , when they saw the little file of humans and they fled chattering through the upper branches almost as speedily as the birds . |
| 7 | Some have fleshy whiskers half as long as their bodies which they project forward and wave about , like a blind person with a stick . |
| 8 | Gases are offensive , smells are offensive , grit and dust penetrate houses just as surely as toxic vapours and car fumes . |
| 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 | That 's despite new evidence that people in their seventies or eighties can recover from operations just as well as the young . |
| 11 | Benjaminian allegory functions perhaps as crucially as supplement as it does as ‘ criticism ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 16 | This finding may explain why attempts to liberalise the archaic Sunday-trading laws of England and Wales ( Scottish shops can open as they please ) have split the Conservatives quite as deeply as the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 17 | Dr Winnifred Cutler , director of the Athena Institute for Women 's Wellness in Philadelphia , discovered that if male pheromones could be attached to women who were n't having regular sex ( by extracting them from men and taping them to women 's upper lips ) then this worked to regulate periods almost as well as regular sex . |
| 18 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | UK , Cambridge-based Tadpole Technology plc is touting its Sparcbook notebook as fetching 12.6 SPECmarks , 12.7 SPECint and 12.5 SPECfp , slightly faster than the IPC workstation from Sun Microsystems Inc , claiming it performs integer intensive applications equally as well as it does floating point applications : the Sparcbook is now on the GSA schedule being peddled to the US government by C3/Telos — Genstar Rentals in Palo Alto , California is renting it out . |
| 21 | Whether it 's snowing or blocked by another plane , we have to be able to accept planes again as soon as possible . |
| 22 | In principle , everything applies to diverging lenses just as well as to converging lenses . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | Not only this , but by his instructions several of the petty officers can make and calculate these observations almost as well as himself . ’ |
| 25 | A total of 15,000 copies of the free booklet have been printed on recycled paper and will be sent to libraries and tourist information centres nationwide as well as distributed locally . |
| 26 | A total of 15,000 copies of the free booklet have been printed on recycled paper and will be sent to libraries and tourist information centres nationwide as well as distributed locally . |
| 27 | What Labour needs above all is the network of working-class activists , sympathisers and supporters that it had in workplaces and on housing estates even as recently as 20 years ago . |
| 28 | ‘ Hang on , ’ he growled , and zipped the two sleeping bags together as fast as he could with shaking hands . |
| 29 | The last author commented ‘ increasing numbers of Americans have become aware that crime exists in the suites of many corporations just as surely as it exists in the streets of their cities and suburbs ’ . |
| 30 | The methods of quality control they use are Japanese , and can , they find , be drilled into Britons and Americans just as well as into Japanese . |