Example sentences of "as [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents . |
| 2 | Repealers were at pains to stress the immense cultural distance which separated them from their opponents ; they positioned themselves as wholly outside the political and military elite which upheld the acts . |
| 3 | Then she and the president can set about hacking away as vigorously at the wasteful government machine as they have at the sheltered private sector . |
| 4 | The Conservatives did not do as badly in the South East as elsewhere ( average swing to Labour , 4.7% ) , whereas Labour performed much better in another traditional area of weakness , the South West , with the Conservative vote dropping substantially in Bristol ( -6.7% ) , Exeter ( -8.8% ) , Penwith ( -11.6% ) , and Torbay ( -17.4% ) . |
| 5 | He ought , whether he remains technically an employee or is treated as a partner or is classified as somewhere between the two ( eg taxed under Sched D on his " salary " ) , to be in a position to know enough about his firm to judge what amounts to a reasonable restriction and not to need the court 's protection if he should have agreed to covenants in stringent terms . |
| 6 | Had he succeeded , Sartre would have established dialectical reason as successfully for the human sciences as Kant had established analytical reason for natural science . |
| 7 | On both spring and autumn passage the species frequently appears at inland waters as well as right along the coast . |
| 8 | It is not necessary always to think of the interview as only of the highly standardized sample type . |
| 9 | The general weather system of the Pacific is determined by the emptiness and uninterrupted smoothness of the Ocean — of the area above which , as all over the planet , air pressures build and wind patterns develop . |
| 10 | Or , as much to the point but slightly differently , I want to be a father . |
| 11 | Arthur admits that , while he is not ill , he has noticed how he has ‘ good days and bad days ’ , probably due as much to the extra medication he now has to take , as the virus itself . |
| 12 | Its population has doubled in the past ten years and will double again in the next ten ; its growth is due as much to the constant influx of newcomers from the Nile villages as to Egypt 's birth-rate . |
| 13 | In fact , the Empire was dissolved after the First World War into several new nations , though this was probably due as much to the policies of the victorious nation states as to the strength of indigenous nationalist movements . |
| 14 | During the last 30 years , CFCs have contributed only one third as much to the Earth 's heat budget as carbon dioxide . |
| 15 | Such variation reflects as much on the Authority 's style and the quality of its thinking as it does on the heads , and there is a clear need for much greater dialogue between the two levels . |
| 16 | It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions . |
| 17 | It 's quite well known that Little Richard was one of David 's idols , but there 's a lot of other American people who interested David , as much from the image point of view as the music . ’ |
| 18 | Denis recoiled , as much from the sudden flood of talk as from the sandwiches which were now almost under his nose . |
| 19 | She was already feeling faint , as much from the stale heat of the attic room as for any other reason . |
| 20 | A child 's piping question about the next ‘ act ’ — a professional juggler currently on the variety bill in a nearby town — was hurriedly hushed , as much by the Colonel 's glare as its mother 's whisper . |
| 21 | Stafford Cripps continued to stress that such an alliance was made inevitable as much by the policy of the Labour Party as by the growing danger from Nazi Germany . |
| 22 | Laura was astounded , as much by the cynical scorn in his voice as by his words . |
| 23 | At what point did they cease to represent family groups and turn into a coherent social group , a local bourgeoisie , or even ( as perhaps in the case of Protestant and Jewish bankers ) a more widespread network , of which family alliances form merely one aspect ? |
| 24 | Perhaps some wore jackets this time and perhaps some restaurants pampered their customers with radiant ceiling heating slanting down on their open galleries , but the Tivoli lights still swung as gently in the trees , the musicians played as sweetly , and the Pantominteatret still stood in all its glory , its magnificent ‘ curtain' of a peacock with fan-shaped tail unfurled waiting dramatically against a sky of indigo velvet for the second performance of the evening . |
| 25 | Yet not only could such a rearrangement be brought about , with the will to do so , but it might come to be seen as greatly to the general advantage of the school . |
| 26 | Generally , the same as above minus the religious bits . |
| 27 | 17.63 Assessment in the primary school should incorporate internal assessment as above from the outset . |
| 28 | In its higher reaches in particular it was still , as generally in the eighteenth century , the preserve of a social élite . |
| 29 | It 's probably one that picks up conversations in the room as well as just on the phone but I can show it to the boys at — ’ |
| 30 | Ryan Giggs has achieved nearly as much as Best at the same age . |