Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It matters not that those others sought , however strongly , to persuade the patient to refuse , so long as in the end the refusal represented the patient 's independent decision . |
| 2 | Sexism rarely manifests itself so grotesquely as in the cohabitation rule , and hostility to it among feminists is virtually unanimous . |
| 3 | Anna had found a place in all their hearts , but nowhere so strongly as in the heart of this young boy . |
| 4 | Here too , though not so strongly as in the Hestia , I seem to glimpse a masterpiece behind the marble . |
| 5 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 6 | This , coupled with its socially exclusive ambiance , restricted it as effectively as in the past to a small group at the top of society . |
| 7 | The firm must identify the bank concerned ; ( 5 ) Before a firm undertakes margined transactions through an intermediate broker who is neither an authorised person nor an overseas person whose regulatory system requires segregation of client money ; ( 6 ) ( In most cases ) where the firm wishes to contract out of the client money regulations and is entitled to do so ; ( 7 ) If the firm wishes to hold client money of a private customer in a free money bank account outside the UK it must identify the country concerned and state whether the bank concerned has given the required acknowledgement as to client money status and that , if such acknowledgement had not been given , client money held with that bank might not be protected as effectively as in the UK . |
| 8 | So widows in large houses ( who always feature prominently in arguments about property taxes ) will not do as badly as under the rates . |
| 9 | But the stories have a universal appeal simply as stories , and it is good that the underlying programme seldom obtrudes as badly as in the gift-shop passage above , where the helpful aside about tourism affecting rural culture worldwide strikes a primary-school note . |
| 10 | The Hong Kong economy performed poorly in the first half of 1990 , but not nearly as badly as in the second half of 1989 when it had suffered from the international reaction to the upheavals in China . |
| 11 | She offered a small forkful as coaxingly as to a baby . |
| 12 | All enquiries , whether ad hoc or by standard program , can be made of the accumulated file of past students just as easily as of the file of current students . |
| 13 | If the sun is shining the focal length can be measured just as easily as for a converging lens : the lens is held so that its shadow falls on a sheet of paper . |
| 14 | While George Boon rejected the suggestion that the very small coins were votive objects and may thus be found in some quantity on temple sites , he sensibly adds that there could have been a tendency for poor quality coins ‘ to gravitate to these shrines as easily as to the offertory of a country church ’ . |
| 15 | Although married women have won rights to benefit which are not affected by their marital status as directly as in the recent past , more women are being pushed beyond the reaches of the scheme altogether . |
| 16 | What has bitten ‘ us ’ , the transpersonal Gadarene motif of The Possessed , manifests itself through the dotty plan for a dinner just as eloquently as through the murder in the park . |
| 17 | In temperate forests , fungi and detritus eating insects can not work as quickly as in the tropics , and leaf litter builds up . |
| 18 | As early as in the 16th Century , Camden wrote about the scenery of the Lake District , with its ‘ bunching rocks and pretty hills ’ but it was another two centuries before this scenery became generally admired . |
| 19 | In reality , the asset would form part of the ‘ general pool ’ of plant and machinery and the tax benefit of the balancing allowance would not be realised as early as in the example . |
| 20 | This latter formulation would give the courts a greater scope for substitution of judgment , with the additional risk that they would not have to articulate their rationale as clearly as under the heads of purpose and relevancy . |
| 21 | The impact of a series of I 's in theme position is not the same as the impact of a series of verbs inflected for first person , such as ‘ saw-I ’ , ‘ took-I ’ , etc. , where it is difficult to discern a theme line as clearly as in the pronoun-plus-verb combination . |
| 22 | As the pasta drained , he gave the sauce a quick blast on the ring , and we ate in the middle of his room as enjoyably as in a trattoria . |
| 23 | I have said things to you , Bodenland , which I have said to no man ; see that they repose in you as securely as in a grave . |
| 24 | On passage birds are seen on inland waters , particularly the reservoirs , as often as on the coast . |
| 25 | Improved standards of living in the South would depend on increases in consumption of energy , but there was small prospect of its being consumed as efficiently as in the North . |
| 26 | The conclusion would seem to be that the early Anglo-Saxon countryside was not run as efficiently as in the following centuries . |
| 27 | ‘ Realism and politics ’ ( or at least social issues ) came back almost as strongly as in the 1930s , in the work of writers who often dropped the baton of innovation like a hot potato , vehemently rejecting modernism and experiment . |
| 28 | The slow movement , as I say , is outstanding , with Masur 's very straight , simple phrasing conveying an emotional intensity quite as deep as with a more overtly expressive style . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | At each stage — prior to drafting as well as at the end of each stage of drafting — teachers confer with pupils . |