Example sentences of "at [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm trying to do eight things at once as usual . |
| 2 | The seller is probably at least as anxious to sell as you are to buy . |
| 3 | The strategy is to sell the plug compatibles for less than the price of the equivalent IBM machine but to make them at least as powerful , or to provide more for the same money . |
| 4 | But who has heard of David Brewster , minor scientist and in his own way at least as powerful a visionary of the new age of science and industry ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But of course any God capable of intelligently designing something as complex as the DNA/protein replicating machine must have been at least as complex and organized as that machine itself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The key issue is not how to reduce the observer 's role to zero ( or even to an absolute minimum ) but simply how to render it at least as explicit , as clear , and as quantitatively specifiable as any other aspect of the system under study , so that other observers will know how to look at the same phenomena from the same perspective , should they care to do so . ’ |
| 9 | But , in principle , there are ways of understanding the social world which dispense with individuals , at least as prime movers , and ways of explaining it which rely on them . |
| 10 | Other social pressures , chief among them that of patronage in an age in which patronage had unprecedented importance in Roman society , must have had at least as great an importance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In answer to the third question , the utilitarian might suggest that there is at least as great a tendency to convergence on these bases as pertains to any of the social sciences ( which may not be saying much ) . |
| 13 | When her children needed clothing she received doles for shoes , stockings and shoe repairs , but at least as grateful was the woman in Leytonstone who in 1740 received one to redeem her stays from pawn . |
| 14 | But has it he certainly does , and ‘ if there is some one belief that is essential for possessing our concept of a bone , the preference-belief ‘ has at least as strong a claim to that title as any other belief … . |
| 15 | In the light of this Constantius is perhaps unlikely to have been in a position to destroy Wallia completely in 416 : Stilicho , who had been in a position at least as strong , had failed to destroy Alaric . |
| 16 | The analysis of the environment of an organisation , including the economic environment , needs to be supplemented by analysis of the political and cultural realities of the organisation , which may be at least as influential in the formation of the company goals and will be very important to the success of information systems . |
| 17 | But at least as instructive is its analysis of why the problem has so burgeoned . |
| 18 | For a public good-the consumption of which is defined over geographic subsets of the total population and for which the costs of providing each level of output of the good in each jurisdiction are the same for the central government or the respective local government — it will always be more efficient or at least as efficient for local government to provide the Pareto-efficient levels of output for their respective jurisdictions than for central government to provide any specified and uniform level of output across all jurisdictions . |
| 19 | What the diffident schoolboy has lost is the confidence that his beliefs are tracking the truth ; he takes it that , although he does believe that p , it is at least as probable that he is wrong as that he is right . |
| 20 | Employment prospects were also at least as good and in some cases slightly better than for school leaver entrants . |
| 21 | You have got to show you are at least as good and a little bit extra to cover your back . ’ |
| 22 | A trade can only be carried out within one firm if the market maker of that firm offers a price at least as good or better than that offered on the general market . |
| 23 | To us they seem at least as intriguing and worthy of study as do the signs and wonders which become the obsessive concern of mystics , religious and many others outside the laboratory . |
| 24 | That this should continue to be so is curious , as participants in many meetings covering a wide variety of subjects will often , when pressed , agree that the interchange which has taken place outwith the meeting has been at least as useful , and generally more enjoyable , than the actual meeting itself . |
| 25 | The example of Virginia Woolf 's interior monologue has been at least as useful , in this way , as Joyce 's or Dorothy Richardson 's stream of consciousness , most immediately to Rosamond Lehmann and Elizabeth Bowen in the 1930s , as well as to later writers , women perhaps especially , such as Anita Brookner . |
| 26 | There is a very smart woman working in Conservative Central Office who has taught me a trick at least as useful at that of Shirley Williams . |
| 27 | He reports 96% correct recognition for 12,600 words , and the approach is at least as successful , if not more so , as any reported so far . |
| 28 | Following the earth sciences revolution within the last couple of decades ( Hallam , 1973 ) it is natural to investigate what relationship , if any , exists between major biogeographic , radiation and extinction episodes and plate tectonics , which appear to have controlled first order events in the physical environment for at least as long as a diverse metazoan fauna became established in the Cambrian , nearly six hundred million years ago . |
| 29 | This is adequate for left shift , at least as long as the bits shifted out are the same as the sign bit . |
| 30 | In order to provide an adequate period of relief it should be at least as long as the first sentence of the theme . |