Example sentences of "as [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one thinks that a female MP can not represent both the men and the women in her constituency just as effectively as a man . |
| 2 | The distinction here is between two very distinct schools of harpsichord-making ; a tradition carried on by native craftsmen who flourished during the first 25 years of the 18th century and an imported tradition initiated by Hermann Tabel that displaced its native rival as effectively as a cuckoo might take charge in a sparrow 's nest . |
| 3 | His car was likened to a bullet … and just as effectively as a bullet he killed five people . |
| 4 | The wolf took it from his hand as delicately as a cat , and licked his palm . |
| 5 | Yet , if she stopped to examine it , was n't there something better than intoxication being built between them , as delicately as a spider 's web , line by gossamer line ? |
| 6 | He trembled as intensely as a fly whirs its wings , and stopped talking . |
| 7 | It hit me as forcibly as a blow to the stomach . |
| 8 | ‘ Queen of Pleasures , ’ he smiled , speaking as gently as a man can . |
| 9 | The bows of the boat rocked as gently as a baby 's cradle . |
| 10 | ‘ I think you 'd better go indoors now , ’ he said , as gently as a mother . |
| 11 | If this is the decision , then such a way of life can be specified as Godly and incorporated into the Created God for as long as a consensus desires it . |
| 12 | An SVR4-on-Alpha plan has been in the works for as long as a year ( UX No 386 ) and was made all the more likely when Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA announced it would implement SVR4 on the high-end Alpha AXP systems it is to market . |
| 13 | When he was absent for as long as a day . |
| 14 | If not then add the cost of your time , charged at your usual rate of pay — and if you are like me then you will take at least five times as long as a garage , because of having less experience and fewer tools ( such as a hoist ) . |
| 15 | It may take as long as a week for all the caterpillars to make their chrysalises . |
| 16 | I have walked it in a day , but it can take as long as a week to complete . |
| 17 | Unless sent by an air courier , an ocean bill of lading can take as long as a week to arrive by air mail . |
| 18 | It may take as long as an hour to return to port . |
| 19 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 20 | She clung to him while he held himself hard and poised over her for a moment , and then he parted her qivering thighs , slipping himself high inside her as naturally as a silver shoehorn easing on a silk slipper . |
| 21 | The briefest of smiles took flight from her lips to her eyes , and away , leaving her portentously grave again ; and with careful , frowning concentration she said in English , her bright , light , child 's voice forming the words as gingerly as a novice using an untried weapon : ‘ Oh , no — I am only Catherine . ’ |
| 22 | His fingers slipped between her thighs as she parted them as eagerly as a girl whose lover had returned from the wars . |
| 23 | The paintings are now hung in two registers on the walls , although not as thickly as a century or more ago . |
| 24 | There can not be many women who run their homes as efficiently and as mechanically as a factory , or to the kind of strict timetables that the domestic manuals printed a generation or two ago would have us follow . |
| 25 | Its images unfold in my mind as effortlessly as a story riding on the voice of a parent , a voice so familiar it disappears , entering in the half-dark , soluble in dreams . |
| 26 | Hope categorised the social substance on view as exactly as a geologist would have named the crystals in a wound of rock . |
| 27 | ‘ All children come into the world in pain , Edith , but none as painfully as a bastard child . ’ |
| 28 | Powerful , calloused , sunburnt , they could have twisted the white swan neck of Lady Eleanor as easily as a twig . |
| 29 | Fincara 's maddening laughter rippled out , and she stepped over to him as easily as a dancer . |
| 30 | If you can live with the slightly awkward depth adjuster , the motor/blade combination makes this a saw which will cut through hard and softwood as easily as a knife through butter . |