Example sentences of "as [adv] as a [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 | One blind six-year-old could even steer a tricycle almost as skilfully as a sighted child . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Somewhere lay the sound of singing — I say lay for the voice seemed to float on the waters as gently as a slight mist . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | MEN-HUNGRY Californians are flocking to enrol in special aerobics classes set up to beat flabby backsides — after a survey showed that many guys rated a pert behind as highly as a pretty face . |
| 10 | But she found that background sound levels at New York 's J. F. Kennedy international airport are 51–98 decibels — nearly as loud as an approaching aircraft ( Environmental Pollution . |
| 11 | The colours and shapes were intensified by the sun 's last strong rays so that the ruins of the abbey looked unreal , a golden fantasy against the blue of the sea , and the dry grass gleamed as richly as a lush water meadow . |
| 12 | Long-term debts of around £150,000 continue to finger the back of the club 's neck as unpleasantly as a north-eastern sea fret . |
| 13 | PETER SCUDAMORE , who breaks records as easily as a psychotic disc jockey , was at it again yesterday , shattering his own mark for the fastest 50 winners by a National Hunt jockey when he rode In-Keeping to an easy victory at Wincanton . |
| 14 | The diet industry ( via the media ) sells the myth that a new body shape can be obtained as easily as a new haircut , provided you can afford their products and endure prolonged starvation . |
| 15 | It came away as easily as a dead treebranch . |
| 16 | Saying that he ought to be able to get through a closed door as easily as an open one , Swift is supposed to have left him standing on the doorstep . |
| 17 | I saw him depart as peacefully as a sleeping infant . |
| 18 | I I was thinking of it now , as as normally as a normal crown court case , |
| 19 | She was a tall girl , slender and graceful , and as straight as a young pine-tree . |
| 20 | However , an outside developer has expressed a serious interest in taking over the A-listed building and running it as both as a commercial mill and as a tourist attraction . |
| 21 | He slurped as noisily as a ravenous dog , mopping up what was left with hard crusts of bread which Father Peter shoved before him on a wooden platter . |
| 22 | Benedicta spoke as coyly as a young girl . |
| 23 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 24 | But as far as a solid line is concerned do n't do it , because i it immediately if you if you o do transgress it 'll mean penalty points if you 're seen doing it , regardless of the consequences of it . |
| 25 | One piece of good news is that Clinton has stated that he will not go as far as a recent legislative proposal , which would have required certain foreign-owned firms and branches to report a minimum amount of US taxable income . |
| 26 | Fate had got him as far as a leading Sheffield estate agents , Blundells . |
| 27 | If the deep anaphor can be assigned a suitable interpretation from a content-based representation it does not matter , at least as far as a considered judgement of acceptability is concerned , if the previous expression of that content does not parallel the one that would have to be substituted for the anaphor to make a full second clause . |
| 28 | The proposal got as far as a White Paper which suggested a two-tier system — life peers with voting rights and other members who could take part in debate but not vote . |
| 29 | It is also likely that the ads for the more expensive and unusual products will be of greater general interest than those for the cheap day-to-day items : it is quite tempting to study in detail an ad for an expensive car , or browse through the ‘ houses for sale ’ columns , even if you aspire only as far as a second-hand Escort and have no intention of moving house within the next 10 years . |
| 30 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |