Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual heating appliances such as gas convectors can be controlled by thermostats and time switches just as effectively as a central heating system , and will obviously cost less to install . |
| 2 | Making love , walking the dog or knocking a squash ball about will do the job as effectively as a stiff drink , and they are less likely to hasten your demise . |
| 3 | The collapse of the MacDonald government in August 1931 weakened and divided the Labour Party as effectively as the General Strike had demoralized the trade unions . |
| 4 | The audience laughed nervously but Fleischmann remained serious : ‘ If this device worked as effectively as the small scale experiment we have done , it would be generating about 800 watts of power . ’ |
| 5 | The elegant studies undertaken by Bissell et al showed that none of the individual major matrix proteins used as a culture substratum would maintain hepatocyte function as effectively as the complete EHS gel complex . |
| 6 | However , this weaker bitumen trapped uraninite and radio-nuclides just as effectively as the surrounding harder material . |
| 7 | One blind six-year-old could even steer a tricycle almost as skilfully as a sighted child . |
| 8 | When Rebus joined the group I began to tremble nearly as badly as the red-haired foreigner . |
| 9 | The Old Dissenting sects failed as badly as the Established Church in meeting the challenge of population growth and the Industrial Revolution . |
| 10 | The trouble is that his men have done just as badly as the old guard . |
| 11 | The slow pace of life on Cheung Chau Island , Lantau or in the rural New Territories recalls scenes of rural China where time sails as leisurely as the tea-laden junks of yesteryear . |
| 12 | Abu was an army man in an army jeep , to which he was wedded as intimately as an Indian mahout is wedded to his elephant . |
| 13 | Music played softly in the background , haunting melodies of old Charles Trenet songs that soothed the senses , softening the harshness of chattering voices and the clinking of glass and crockery , insinuating themselves into the mind as stealthily as an incoming tide seeps into crevices between rocks . |
| 14 | Somewhere lay the sound of singing — I say lay for the voice seemed to float on the waters as gently as a slight mist . |
| 15 | Vauxhall 's Nova 1.5TD , for instance , is a fast , frugal hatchback with an Isuzu turbodiesel which when properly maintained should last as long as a naturally-aspirated engine . |
| 16 | For this reason , the algorithm needs to scan backward as well as forward , and therefore takes twice as long as the simple algorithm . |
| 17 | What is more important , the complex algorithm is shown to take roughly twice as long as the simple algorithm across all window sizes . |
| 18 | On the longer arms the ventralmost arm spine is elongated , about four times as long as the other spines , and is club shaped . |
| 19 | In 1558 , he worked up his letter into a second edition , three times as long as the first , which he certainly wrote as an outright attack ; and his portrayal of the dowager in his History of Scotland is one of hacking savagery . |
| 20 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 21 | Stereotypes , however false , tend to persist for as long as the social differences and inequalities they reinforce . |
| 22 | Therefore it is a matter of cultivating the interior images which last as long as the human being lives . |
| 23 | The bread wards off hunger for as long as the same weight of ordinary bread despite its lower starch value . |
| 24 | The Act 's 238 sections and 13 schedules make it almost twice as long as the 1944 Education Act and it is certainly comparable in significance . |
| 25 | However , given that users in the hidden sector are slightly younger , and have not been using heroin for as long as the known users , it does seem highly likely that many more of these ‘ hidden ’ users will surface , either because of prosecution , pregnancy , physical illness or their own decision to seek help of some sort . |
| 26 | Scientific ideas and theories are accepted for as long as the known evidence supports them . |
| 27 | Scientific ideas and theories are accepted for as long as the known evidence supports them . |
| 28 | For as long as the marginal disutility of inflation remains positive , there will eventually come a point at which the government will be compelled to pursue policies which will push the unemployment rate back towards its natural value . |
| 29 | The quality and strength , allied to their beauty , mean that our chairs and tables will last as long as the old Lloyd Loom furniture now fetching high prices in antique shops . |
| 30 | The average working week of housewiv es in this sample is seventy-seven hours — almost twice as long as an industrial working week of forty hours . |