Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [prep] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | For feminists , one interesting implication of the idea that Trudgill puts forward , and of his findings , is that gender allegiance seems to be at least as powerful for men ( in the attitudes they express , if not in their behaviour ) as class allegiance . |
| 2 | The temples in their turn were elaborated and apparently enlarged : their importance in relation to the towns and the rural hinterlands continued to be at least as great , if not greater . |
| 3 | The organization and reorganization of the state must be understood to be at least as much the product of the wishes of state officials as of social pressures . |
| 4 | Any archaeological sites not destroyed in this process are likely to be at least as severely damaged by the roots of the trees , which are usually set as close together as is economically viable . |
| 5 | This does not mean that all these methods should be banned : on the contrary — banning contraception might simply lead to a sudden rise in both abortion and childbirth , both of which are likely to be at least as dangerous for women 's health in a poor country . |
| 6 | A bloke called Adrian happened to be in there as well . |